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By Chris Isidore, Aditi Sangal and Gregory Wallace, CNN Southwest’s December meltdown was front and center at a Senate Commerce Committee hearing Thursday, but there was little sign that members of Congress were in agreement on steps to take to make sure it wouldn’t happen again. Southwest’s CEO Bob Jordan did not attend, despite an

By Anna Cooban, CNN Netflix has extended its crackdown on password sharing to Canada, New Zealand, Portugal and Spain. Users in these countries will now have to pay to give people they don’t live with access to their account, after similar rules were trialed in Latin America last year. Under the new rules, subscribers to

By Lucy Bayly, CNN First-time applications for unemployment benefits rose last week to 196,000, a slightly higher total than the 190,000 that economists were expecting — but still a historically low number. Despite widely publicized layoffs from tech giants, media companies and the financial sector in recent weeks, the US labor market remains robust after

By Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN CVS is buying a primary care doctor’s network, moving the pharmacy deeper into providing physician services for patients. The company announced Wednesday that it plans to pay $10.6 billion to acquire Oak Street Health, a primary care provider mainly for adults on Medicare Advantage. Oak Street has 160 health care clinics

By Paul R. La Monica, CNN Artificial intelligence is the latest tech flavor of the month. Industry giants Google, Microsoft and China’s Baidu have all had big AI announcements in recent days, as ChatGPT bot mania is taking the corporate world by storm. All of this AI news has helped boost shares of Baidu, Microsoft

By Angus Watson and Wayne Chang, CNN Australia’s defense ministry will remove Chinese-made cameras from its offices over spying concerns, the country’s Minister for Defence Richard Marles has said. The concerns were raised by Senator James Paterson of the opposition Liberal Party, who said Wednesday that he had conducted an “audit” of Chinese-made security devices

By Jordan Valinsky, CNN Nearly 5 million bottles of Fabuloso multi-purpose cleaner have been recalled because there’s a “risk of bacterial growth,” the company said. The company said a preservative “was not added at the intended levels during manufacturing,” which resulted in the growth of Pseudomonas species, a bacteria found widely in soil and water.

By Oliver Darcy, CNN Business An estimated 27.3 million people watched President Joe Biden’s 2023 State of the Union address on Tuesday night, according to Nielsen, a 29% decline in viewership from Biden’s first address when more than 38 million tuned in. According to Nielsen’s measurement, 73% of the audience was aged 55 and older,

By Emiko Jozuka and Michelle Toh, CNN Sushi train restaurants have long been an iconic part of Japan’s food culture. Now, videos of people licking shared soy sauce bottles and messing with plates of food on conveyor belts are prompting critics to question their prospects in a Covid-conscious world. Last week, a video taken at

By Jordan Valinsky, CNN Discovery+ isn’t disappearing, after all. Warner Bros. Discovery, CNN’s parent company, has decided to continue offering the Discovery+ streaming platform in the United States, according to a source familiar with the company’s plans. That marks a sharp reversal from the media company’s previous plan to combine Discovery+ with HBO Max into