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Air Canada strike ends after airline and flight attendants reach tentative agreement | CNN Business

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Air Canada and a union representing the airline’s flight attendants have come to a tentative agreement, ending a days-long strike that canceled thousands of flights and stranded hundreds of thousands of passengers.

“Flight attendants at Air Canada and Air Canada Rouge have reached a tentative agreement, achieving transformational change for our industry after a historic fight to affirm our Charter rights,” said Hugh Pouliot, spokesman for the Canadian Union for Public Employees (CUPE), in a statement Tuesday. “Unpaid work is over. We have reclaimed our voice and our power.”

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Lawyer argues Meta can’t be held liable for gunmaker’s Instagram posts in Uvalde families’ lawsuit | CNN Business

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A lawsuit filed by families of the Uvalde school shooting victims alleging Instagram allowed gun manufacturers to promote firearms to minors should be thrown out, lawyers for Meta, Instagram’s parent company, argued Tuesday.

Nineteen children and two teachers were killed in the May 2022 shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas.

The families sued Meta in Los Angeles in May 2024, saying the social media platform failed to enforce its own rules forbidding firearms advertisements aimed at minors.

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FDA issues warning over possible radioactive shrimp | Live Science

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Frozen shrimp imported to the U.S. from an Indonesian-based company may have been exposed to a radioactive substance, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) warned Tuesday (Aug. 19).

The products were processed by PT. Bahari Makmur Sejati, also referred to as BMS Foods. The FDA launched an investigation after U.S. Customs officials detected cesium-137 (Cs-137) — a radioactive form of cesium — in shipping containers carrying the shrimp that were delivered to Los Angeles, Houston, Savannah, Georgia, and Miami.

Analyses of the containers’ contents confirmed the presence of Cs-137 in one sample of breaded shrimp. The containers that tested positive were not allowed to enter the U.S., and no products that tested positive have entered the food supply.

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Full moons of 2025: When is the next full moon? | Live Science

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September’s full moon, nicknamed the Corn Moon, rises on Sunday, Sept. 7. The moon turns full at precisely 2:09 p.m. EDT on Sunday. It will also appear bright and full on the days before and after the peak.

The September full moon gets its nickname from the corn that is commonly harvested this time of year in North America, according to Almanac. The name originated with native American tribes, but now enjoys widespread popularity.

The full Corn Moon will experience the year’s second and final total lunar eclipse. Beginning at 11:28 a.m. EDT (15:28 UTC), Earth’s shadow will pass over the moon for about five hours, totally blocking the sun’s light for 82 minutes and turning the lunar surface red. The eclipse will be visible from Asia, Australia, and most of Europe and Africa. It will not be visible from North or South America.

Source: Full moons of 2025: When is the next full moon? | Live Science

Why Your Small Business Needs Unemployment Insurance | Business News Daily

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In life, there are moments and roadblocks we would never have predicted. No one plans for staff furloughs and layoffs, and no business owner expects to shut down their company, even temporarily.

However, when a small business is forced to close, employees quickly become former employees. Fortunately, unemployment insurance gives your workers some financial security while they’re without income.

We’ll explore unemployment insurance and what workers and employers need to know.

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Guide to Mileage Reimbursement Laws and Policies | Business News Daily

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If you don’t have a fleet of company vehicles and employees are driving their own vehicles on your business’s behalf – making deliveries, inspecting workplaces, and gathering supplies – what are your obligations regarding fuel costs, maintenance, and vehicle depreciation?

There are both legal requirements and business considerations to keep in mind when determining whether you need a mileage reimbursement policy and what it should look like. This guide explains the basics of mileage reimbursement and how to devise a policy that reimburses your employees fairly and efficiently.

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A Simple Way to Break a Bad Habit: 5 Science-Backed Steps That Actually Work | LifeHack

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You know that moment when you’re reaching for your phone at 2 AM, telling yourself it’s just to check the time, but suddenly you’re deep into social media scrolling? Or when you promise yourself this is the last time you’ll hit snooze, only to repeat the same dance tomorrow morning? We’ve all been there. These automatic behaviors feel like they’re running the show, and honestly, sometimes it feels like we’re just passengers in our own lives.

Here’s the thing about bad habits—they’re sneaky. What starts as an innocent stress-relief activity (hello, late-night snacking) or a quick dopamine hit (just one more TikTok video) gradually becomes a deeply ingrained pattern that seems impossible to shake. The frustrating part? You know exactly what you’re doing wrong. You’ve probably tried to quit multiple times. Yet somehow, despite your best intentions and New Year’s resolutions, you find yourself back in that familiar loop.

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Cognitive Overload Symptoms: 15 Warning Signs & Solutions | Life Hack

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Picture this: You’re on a video call, nodding along while secretly checking emails, mentally calculating if you have enough pasta for dinner, and half-listening to your kids arguing about whose turn it is on the iPad. Sound familiar? You’re not alone and you’re not imagining that life feels more overwhelming than ever. These are classic cognitive overload symptoms that millions experience daily.

Here’s why: Back in 2008, researchers found Americans were already processing 34GB of information daily. Today? We’re swimming in an estimated 75-100GB of data every single day. That’s like downloading your entire brain’s storage capacity, twice. Our digital interactions have exploded from 298 daily touches in 2010 to a mind-boggling 4,909 expected by 2025. We’re consuming 105,000 words daily, roughly 23 words per second during every waking hour.

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How the EPA’s backtracking on vehicle emissions will impact the shift to EVs | Fast Company

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The U.S. government is in full retreat from its efforts to make vehicles more fuel-efficient, which it has been waging, along with state governments, since the 1970s.

The latest move came on July 29, 2025, when the Environmental Protection Agency said it planned to rescind its landmark 2009 decision, known as the “endangerment finding,” that greenhouse gases pose a threat to public health and welfare. If that stands up in court and is not overruled by Congress, it would undo a key part of the long-standing effort to limit greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles.

As a scholar of how vehicle emissions contribute to climate change, I know that the science behind the endangerment finding hasn’t changed. If anything, the evidence has grown that greenhouse gas emissions are warming the planet and threatening people’s health and safety. Heat waves, flooding, sea-level rise, and wildfires have only worsened in the decade and a half since the EPA’s ruling.

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The AI revolution means we need to redesign everything. It also means we get to redesign everything. | Fast Company

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Steve Jobs walked to the podium, threw his jacket on the floor, and implored a group of designers to help shape the coming revolution. Addressing the 1983 International Design Conference in Aspen, Colorado, he simply explained his vision for the personal computer era he saw coming. He then turned to the challenge: “We have a shot at putting a great object there, or if we don’t, we’re going to put one more piece of junk object there . . . this stuff can either be great or it can be lousy. And we need help. We really, really need your help.”

ONE MORE PIECE OF JUNK?

What Jobs recognized was that major technological inflections are not just about accelerating what went before, but moments of profound redesign, and that takes more than just technical leaps. How we shape technical revolutions determines who participates, who benefits, what is gained, and what is lost.

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