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Americans stepped up their spending at US retailers in February, after three consecutive months of declines, showing the US consumer hasn’t tapped out yet in the face of weak job growth and low consumer sentiment. Read more: https://cnn.it/4silngk

The iPod was Apple's biggest product at the time. By April 2004, the iPod was outselling the Mac and growing by more than 900% from the year before. So Apple got to work making its biggest success obsolete. To this day – the company's 50th anniversary – Apple has never made a more consequential decision. https://cnn.it/47BTRmm

President Donald Trump received cheers and some boos from the crowd at the Trump Kennedy Center during a showing of "Chicago." Read more: https://cnn.it/4sKMtxD

A federal judge ordered the University of Pennsylvania to comply with a subpoena from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission seeking a list of Jewish community members in what the federal government says is an effort to combat antisemitism on the Ivy League campus. The EEOC has declined to comment, referring CNN to the judge's opinion. The university told CNN they plan to appeal the decision.

Oracle is reportedly laying off thousands of employees, adding to an already long list of tech giants cutting staff while spending hundreds of billions of dollars on AI data centers. Microsoft laid off 15,000 people last year. Amazon axed 16,000 jobs in January. Atlassian let go of 10% of its workforce as part of its AI pivot. Block shed 40% of its staff, claiming AI could do much of the basic coding work it needed. Meta, which has explicitly set out to create a godlike “superintelligent” AI, reportedly laid off 700 employees while boosting a stock incentive program for a handful top executives. Read the full analysis: https://cnn.it/4dV3rEK

Darathorn Yoothong is going viral for her unconventional dance moves at Miss Grand Thailand 2026 which were viewed over 30 million times on social media.

When Jessica Johnston fell 180 feet down a waterfall in New Zealand, she was lucky to survive. She got even luckier a week later, when a helicopter crew found her missing dog Molly, shivering and alone, in the wilderness. Molly, a border collie, had been hiking with Johnston across mountainous terrain in a remote area of the Arahura Valley on the west coast of the country���s South Island. Johnston had been posting photos to Facebook of their adventures, camping and traversing snowy mountain peaks. However, when Johnston lost her footing atop a waterfall on March 24, she became separated from Molly. Rescuers arrived to take Johnston to hospital, but her loyal companion was nowhere to be seen. https://cnn.it/4m3FKMp

Video shot by a bystander captures a burning vehicle shortly after it collided with a toll booth in Bedford, New Hampshire. According to New Hampshire State Police Colonel Mark Hall, a trooper assigned to Governor Kelly Ayotte's security detail came upon the crash and removed the driver from the vehicle with the help of bystanders.

Pope Leo XIV told CNN's Christopher Lamb that he hopes President Donald Trump can help find a path toward ending the war in the Middle East, emphasizing the urgency of renewed diplomacy and dialogue.

The US could be done with its war with Iran within two to three weeks, President Donald Trump said. He said Washington will have "nothing to do with" the closed Strait of Hormuz. Read more: https://cnn.it/3PIyxFJ