New cruises include a spectacular 21-day roundtrip from Boston; private island Half Moon Cay remains centerpiece of Caribbean sailings. Holland America Line’s 2024-2025 Caribbean season opens for booking today, “Holland America Line adds Boston, Bermuda and longer itineraries for 2024-2025 Caribbean Season”
Over the past few months, many streaming companies have started eliminating some of their own shows from their library. Actor Diana-Maria Riva is all too “As Streamers Cut Costs, TV Shows — and Residuals — Vanish”
Airbus (AIR.PA) deliveries fell by 11% on an industrial basis to 127 jets in the first quarter, underscoring the pressure on global supply chains and paving the “Airbus deliveries fell to 127 jets in Q1, sources say”
These retirement accounts for self-employed workers provide retirement saving tax breaks. Saving for retirement can be hard enough, but self-employed workers don’t have the benefit “Guide to Retirement Planning for the Self-Employed”
General Motors’ Cruise autonomous vehicle unit recalled 300 robotaxis to update software after one of them rear-ended a municipal bus in San Francisco. General Motors’ “GM Cruise Recalls 300 Robotaxis After Crash Involving Bus”
China’s Xi Jinping has given French President Emmanuel Macron an unusually lavish welcome on a state visit, which some analysts see as a sign of “With Lavish Treatment of Macron, China’s Xi Woos France to ‘Counter’ U.S.”
Another lawsuit was filed Thursday aiming to force an end to a pause on payments for student loan borrowers that has stretched over three years. The lawsuit, “When will student loan payments resume? A new lawsuit aims to lift the payment pause”
Schools would violate the new Title IX regulations if they categorically ban transgender students from sports teams but may adopt policies that limit participation in “Biden Administration to Allow Schools to Ban Transgender Athletes in Some Cases”
Republicans hail policies they say will give parents a say in their children’s schooling – but critics say it’s a guise to advance a rightwing “‘Parents’ rights’: Republicans wage education culture war as 2024 looms”
Two New Orleans high school seniors who say they have proven Pythagoras’s theorem by using trigonometry – which academics for two millennia have thought to be impossible “US teens say they have new proof for 2,000-year-old mathematical theorem”
