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PARIS — At least 1.1 million people protested on the streets of Paris and other French cities Thursday amid nationwide strikes against plans to raise the retirement age — but President Emmanuel Macron insisted he would press ahead with the…
WASHINGTON — The countdown toward a possible U.S. government default began Thursday with the Treasury Department implementing accounting measures as a stopgap, while friction between President Joe Biden and House Republicans raised concern about whether the U.S. can sidestep an…
HONG KONG — Hong Kong will scrap its mandatory isolation rule for people infected with COVID-19 starting Jan. 30 as part of its strategy to return the semi-autonomous Chinese city to normalcy, the city's leader said Thursday. For most of…
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea’s rubber-stamp parliament has passed a budget that sustains a high level of defense spending despite the countrys' economic troubles as leader Kim Jong Un pushes for an aggressive expansion of his nuclear arsenal. State…
Rebecca Heilweil is a reporter at Vox covering emerging technology, artificial intelligence, and the supply chain. This story is part of a group of stories called Uncovering and explaining how our digital world is changing — and changing us. Before…
Madeleine Ngo covers economic policy for Vox. She previously worked at the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, and the Philadelphia Inquirer. Paychecks have grown rapidly as businesses have struggled to deal with widespread labor shortages during the…
