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By Auzinea Bacon, CNN (CNN) — After a slow start to 2025, the Hollywood box office has pulled off a “Stitchpossible” comeback buoyed by a huge holiday weekend. Disney’s “Lilo & Stitch” and the eighth installment of “Mission: Impossible” helped spark a record $325 million estimated box office haul for Memorial Day weekend. “Lilo &

By Lisa Eadicicco, CNN (CNN) — First lady Melania Trump released an audiobook version in her voice of her memoir on Thursday — but she won’t actually be the one narrating it. “I am honored to bring you Melania – The AI Audiobook – narrated entirely using artificial intelligence in my own voice,” she wrote

By Chris Isidore, CNN (CNN) — The American penny isn’t going anywhere anytime soon. The US Treasury Department announced Thursday that it plans to start winding down production of the one-cent coin it has been minting for more than 230 years. But the penny will still remain legal tender, and will still be in use

By Ramishah Maruf, CNN New York (CNN) — The unofficial start of summer is here, which means people will be hosting barbeques and pool parties — and finally bringing out the all-white outfits. But Memorial Day, the federal holiday falling on the last Monday of May, honors members of the US armed forces who died

By Brian Stelter, CNN (CNN) — Journalists who cover the US military say they are extremely concerned by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s constraints on press access at the Pentagon. They say the newest restrictions, outlined Friday night, appear to be “a direct attack on the freedom of the press and America’s right to know what

By Auzinea Bacon, CNN (CNN) — Social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, was briefly inaccessible for thousands of US users early Saturday, according to Downdetector.com, which tracks internet disruptions. The site appears to have resolved the outage, as DownDetector reports are down to 690 as of 11:30 a.m. ET. Users in the United

By Auzinea Bacon, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs have given many Americans whiplash. The list of companies announcing price changes as a result is equally daunting. Among the levies Trump has imposed is a 10% baseline tariff for most imports and a 30% tariff on most Chinese goods. Some goods, such as

By Jordan Valinsky, CNN New York (CNN) — McDonald’s is pulling the plug on its CosMc’s spinoff just two years after the alien-themed spinoff took off. The chain announced Friday that it’s closing all five locations next month. CosMc’s, named after a little-known alien McDonald’s character, opened in 2023 in response to fast-growing specialty coffee

By Jordan Valinsky, CNN New York (CNN) — Mike Keech, the CEO of Liquid I.V., thinks you have a problem that you might not even be aware of. “A majority of consumers, Americans and people around the world are chronically dehydrated,” he told CNN. “They just don’t know it.” Even if consumers don’t know if

By Kit Maher, Ramishah Maruf and Chris Isidore, CNN New York (CNN) — President Donald Trump announced a partnership between U.S. Steel and Japanese steelmaker Nippon that he says will keep the headquarters in Pittsburgh and draw $14 billion in investment toward the US economy. “This will be a planned partnership between United States Steel

By Liam Reilly, CNN (CNN) — RedBird Capital Partners announced on Friday that it has purchased Telegraph Media Group for £500 million (nearly $675 million), concluding a protracted bid to acquire the news company. The deal makes US-based RedBird the sole controlling owner of The Telegraph, the right-leaning British news outlet founded in 1855. Per

By Olivia Kemp, CNN London (CNN) — Labubu, a palm-sized plush toy with sharp teeth and a cult following, has become a toy too popular to sell. After chaotic scenes of queueing, crowd surges and reported fights, distributor Pop Mart has suspended all in-store sales of the collectible across the United Kingdom. “Due to the

By Amarachi Orie, CNN (CNN) — Denmark is set to have the highest retirement age in Europe, after lawmakers voted to raise it to 70. Parliamentarians passed a bill mandating the rise on Thursday, with 81 votes in favor and 21 against. The new law will apply to people born after December 31, 1970. The

CNN By John Liu and Lisa Eadicicco, CNN (CNN) — US President Donald Trump boasted “jobs and factories will come roaring back” when he unleashed unprecedented tariffs around the world during his “Liberation Day” address last month. But there’s one product the president is particularly eager to produce in the US: iPhones. “I have long

By Olesya Dmitracova, CNN London (CNN) — A record number of Americans applied for British citizenship between January and March, according to the first set of data covering the start of Donald Trump’s second presidential term. Some 1,931 Americans put in an application, the most since records began in 2004 and a jump of 12%

By John Towfighi, CNN New York (CNN) — Markets thought they had a serious debt problem. Now they have a trade war problem to worry about again. Stocks and the dollar fell Friday after President Donald Trump brought the trade war back to the forefront with threats of massive tariffs against one of America’s most

By Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump on Friday threatened a 50% tariff on goods from the European Union, citing a lack of progress in current trade negotiations. “Their powerful Trade Barriers, Vat Taxes, ridiculous Corporate Penalties, Non-Monetary Trade Barriers, Monetary Manipulations, unfair and unjustified lawsuits against Americans Companies, and more, have led

By David Goldman and Clare Duffy, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump on Friday demanded Apple and other smartphone makers like Samsung make their phones in the United States or face a 25% tariff. “I have long ago informed Tim Cook of Apple that I expect their iPhone’s that will be sold in the United

By Chris Isidore, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration is giving businesses a free pass from a wide variety of enforcement actions. Boeing, Capital One, Southwest Airlines and Coinbase all faced legal action from the Biden administration, which accused the companies of cheating their customers, the government or otherwise acting improperly. But multiple federal agencies