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By Ramishah Maruf, CNN World Wrestling Entertainment apologized Friday after using footage of Auschwitz, the infamous Nazi concentration and extermination camp, in a promotional spot for a hyped father-son match. On Twitter, the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum said it was hard to call it an “editing mistake.” “Exploiting the site that became a symbol of

By Chris Boyette and Brian Fung, CNN The State University System of Florida Board of Governors has banned the social media app TikTok, along with some other software, applications, and developers, from use on university-owned devices “due to the continued and increasing landscape of cyber threats.” In a memo sent to state university system presidents

Bryan Mena, CNN The latest monthly jobs report showed that US hiring slowed in March but remained robust, with gains in service-providing businesses like bars and restaurants, but weakness in construction and manufacturing. Leisure and hospitality fueled last month’s growth in payrolls, a trend that has held firm since the economy started its recovery from

By Oliver Darcy, CNN It all started with a little curiosity. A team of ProPublica reporters earlier this year began looking into the travel of various Supreme Court justices, not entirely sure what they would find, if anything. But after a little digging, the trio of journalists stumbled upon something that piqued their interest. In

By Anna Cooban, CNN India’s government is planning to create a state fact-checking unit with the power to order social media platforms to take down content about its activities that it deems “fake or misleading.” In an amendment to rules covering digital and social media published Thursday, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology said

By Elle Reeve, CNN The question of whether Snoop Dogg deeply and sincerely liked some cartoon apes has become key in a federal lawsuit between the crypto empire Yuga Labs and the trollish artist Ryder Ripps. Yuga Labs v. Ripps is a fight over trademarks, but legal filings in the case are pulling back the

By Anna Bahney, CNN Homebuyers benefited from another week of falling mortgage rates, with the average rate dropping for the fourth week in a row, according to data from Freddie Mac released Thursday. The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage averaged 6.28% in the week ending April 6, down from 6.32% the week before. A year ago, the

By Chris Isidore, CNN Bob Jordan, who took over as CEO of Southwest Airlines in February 2022, just 10 months before the airline’s epic holiday travel service meltdown, got a 75% pay hike last year. Southwest’s operational meltdown over the Christmas vacation period prompted the cancellation of 16,700 flights between December 21 and 29, ruined

By Anna Cooban, CNN The International Monetary Fund warned this week of “vulnerabilities” among so-called non-bank financial institutions, saying global financial stability could hinge on their resilience. The Bank of England called attention to the same issue last month. And global investors surveyed by Bank of America in the middle of the recent banking crisis