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France’s government survives no-confidence votes and controversial pension reforms will move ahead

By Dalal Mawad, Oliver Briscoe, Chris Liakos and Jack Guy, CNN Two no-confidence votes against French President Emmanuel Macron’s government have failed in the country’s parliament, clearing the way for his hugely unpopular pension reforms to be implemented and sparking new protests in Paris. The government triggered special constitutional powers last Thursday to push through

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A family is racing to raise $2.5 million to save their toddler, who suffers from an ultrarare neurological disorder that turns babies into ‘human time bombs’

By Alaa Elassar, CNN Mary Saladino spends most of her days holding her son in her arms while he violently seizes, whispering to him as she frantically tries to save his life. Nearly every day she witnesses her baby waver on the brink of death, not breathing and often paralyzed. Her 3-year-old son, Henry, suffers

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Thanks to medical advances, cystic fibrosis is no longer an automatic qualifier for the Make-a-Wish Foundation

By Zoe Sottile, CNN The Make-A-Wish Foundation has announced cystic fibrosis is no longer automatically a qualifying condition, because of “life-changing advances” in the outcome of the disease. The philanthropic foundation announced the policy change in a news release Friday. They explained beginning in January 2024, children with cystic fibrosis will only be eligible if

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Stephen Smith’s family raises money to have body exhumed for private autopsy almost 2 years after Murdaugh case prompted renewed scrutiny

By Michelle Watson, Paradise Afshar and Dakin Andone, CNN The family of a 19-year-old found dead in the middle of a South Carolina road in 2015 will seek to have his body exhumed, they announced last week, almost two years after state authorities reopened a probe into his death based on information learned while investigating

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