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By Jon Sarlin, CNN (CNN) — The phrase “unified Reich,” which appeared in a video posted by the Trump campaign and caused a firestorm of controversy, appears to have originated as placeholder text in a collection of video templates created in 2023 by a 30-year-old Turkish freelance graphic designer. The video, posted and subsequently removed

By Alicia Wallace and Krystal Hur, CNN New York (CNN) — Americans may be sick and tired of dealing with high prices across pretty much every aspect of their lives, but inflation hasn’t yet squashed the travel bug. And this Memorial Day weekend could be a case in point: Travelers are expected to come out

By Clare Duffy, CNN New York (CNN) — Google promised its new artificial intelligence search tools would “do the work for you” and make finding information online quicker and easier. But just days after the launch, the company is already walking back some factually incorrect results. Google earlier this month introduced an AI-generated search results

By Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN (CNN) — Some iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus owners may be eligible for a payout as part of a $35 million settlement. iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus users who experienced issues related to the audio chip could receive up to $349 in compensation as part of a 2019

By Parija Kavilanz, CNN New York (CNN) — Amazon Fresh has joined the growing ranks of retailers that are cutting prices. It is discounting thousands of grocery items in a bid to entice price-conscious shoppers to add a little bit more to their shopping carts. The online grocery delivery service, which also operates a handful

By Parija Kavilanz, CNN New York (CNN) — Mahin Barker said soccer moms keep her on her toes at her store in West Lake Hills on the outskirts of Austin, Texas. They come in nearly every day and they’re keen to shop. “They have a lot of time and disposable income to spend so we

By Anna Cooban, CNN London (CNN) — Kabosu, the dog that launched a thousand “doge” memes, has died, her owner announced Friday. The Japanese shiba inu “fell into a deep sleep” on Friday morning at 18 years of age, Atsuko Sato wrote in a blogpost. “Outside the window, birds were singing on a beautiful morning.

By Tom Foster, CNN London (CNN) — Amazon and Meta executives told CNN this week that some of the fears about artificial intelligence are overblown and that the European Union’s sweeping new AI rules risk holding back innovation. The EU gave the final green light to its AI act Tuesday, the same week tech leaders

By Jeanne Sahadi, CNN New York (CNN) — They are still a very small minority in the 401(k) universe, but there were a record number of 401(k) participants with balances over $1 million at the end of the first quarter this year, Fidelity Investments said Thursday. Specifically, 485,000 of them. That’s up 15% from the

By Jeanne Sahadi, CNN New York (CNN) — It’s a fair bet that you work with some people whose views differ strongly from yours on politically and emotionally charged issues — the upcoming US presidential election, Donald Trump’s criminal indictments, Gaza, reproductive rights and climate change, to name just a few. Or maybe you just

By Alex Leeds Matthews, CNN The nation’s highways and airports have been crowded with people marking the unofficial start of summer this Memorial Day weekend. Travel volumes for the first few days of the holiday weekend surpassed pre-pandemic levels, according to recent data from the Transportation Security Administration. The more than 2.9 million travelers who

By Samantha Delouya, CNN (CNN) — For many Americans, Memorial Day weekend marks the start of the summer travel season as millions of people head to parks, beaches and other vacation destinations. This summer is no exception: Nearly 44 million people are expected to skip town this Memorial Day, the highest number since 2005, according

By Laura He, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Tesla broke ground on a new manufacturing plant in Shanghai on Thursday, just weeks after CEO Elon Musk made a surprise visit to China in a bid to shore up the carmaker’s slumping sales. The factory, which was announced in April last year, aims to begin production

By Hanna Ziady, CNN London (CNN) — Money generated by Russian financial assets frozen in Europe will soon start flowing to Ukraine, giving Kyiv a boost as it struggles to counter an advance by Moscow’s troops. Now, the West is trying to turn that trickle of cash into a flood. Finance officials from the G7

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By Oliver Darcy, CNN (CNN) — The situation at Warner Bros. Discovery’s TNT network “sucks, plain and simple,” Charles Barkley bluntly said Thursday. The former NBA star and “Inside the NBA” co-host was speaking on “The Dan Patrick Show” about the increasing likelihood that the network will soon lose the rights to air the league’s games next year, a prospect that could mark the end

CNN By Curt Devine, Allison Gordon and Kyung Lah, CNN (CNN) — When SWAT officers swarmed a house in a sleepy San Jose, California neighborhood last month, they found what could best be described as a make-shift hardware store inside: Shelves lined with boxes of brand-new tools, bathroom fixtures and spools of industrial wiring. It

By Isabel Rosales and Chris Youd, CNN (CNN) — Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti is looking into the attempted foreclosure auction of Elvis Presley’s iconic Memphis home, known as Graceland, by an alleged private investment company. On Wednesday, Naussany Investments and Private Lending LLC dropped its foreclosure efforts against Graceland. Danielle Riley Keough, Presley’s granddaughter

CNN By Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN (CNN) — Elon Musk says artificial intelligence will take all our jobs and that’s not necessarily a bad thing. “Probably none of us will have a job,” Musk said about AI at a tech conference on Thursday. While speaking remotely via webcam at VivaTech 2024 in Paris, Musk described

CNN By Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN New York (CNN) — The House Committee on Education and the Workforce’s hearing on campus antisemitism Thursday came with no shortage of fiery exchanges between lawmakers and the heads of Northwestern University, Rutgers University and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). But unlike two prior hearings, Thursday’s was the