By Lianne Kolirin, CNN

(CNN) — The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has been criticized for selling merchandise commemorating the 1936 Berlin games, which Adolf Hitler used to showcase his Nazi ideology.

The website for the Olympics — currently in the spotlight due to the ongoing Milan Cortina Winter Olympics — features a men’s T-shirt marking the controversial Nazi games. The garment, which is showing as “out of stock,” is part of the IOC’s “Heritage Collection.”

The T-shirt features the original poster for the 1936 games, designed by Franz Würbel. It depicts an athletic male figure crowned with a laurel wreath and with the Olympic rings in the background. The Brandenburg Gate sits beneath him, with the caption: “Germany Berlin 1936 Olympic Games.”

The landing page for the Heritage Collection on the Olympics website states: “Each edition of the Games reflects a unique time and place in history when the world came together to celebrate humanity.”

Hitler used the games, held three and a half years after the Nazis came to power, as a spectacle of Nazi propaganda. He set out to showcase the racial superiority of so-called Aryan athletes and openly denigrated African-American participants as “non-humans.”

Nevertheless, African-American athlete Jesse Owens emerged as the star of the games, taking to the podium to collect four gold medals, surrounded by people giving the Nazi salute.

Christine Schmidt is the co-director of the Wiener Holocaust Library in London, the world’s oldest archive of Holocaust materials.

She told CNN: “The Nazis used the 1936 Olympics to showcase their oppressive regime to the world, aiming to smooth over international relations while at the same time preventing almost all German-Jewish athletes from competing, rounding up the 800 Roma who lived in Berlin, and concealing signs of virulent antisemitic violence and propaganda from the world’s visitors.

“The Nazis’ fascist and antisemitic propaganda infiltrated their promotion of the games, and many international Jewish athletes chose not to compete. The IOC would be minded to consider whether any aesthetic appreciation of these games can be comfortably separated from the horror that followed.”

The decision to sell the T-shirt was also criticised by Scott Saunders, CEO of International March of the Living, an annual educational program that will this year see around 8,000 people gathered at the former Auschwitz death camp to commemorate the Holocaust.

He told CNN: “As the world reflects on this latest controversy, it is impossible not to recall that we are approaching 90 years since the 1936 Berlin Olympics — an event the Nazi regime used to legitimize itself on the global stage while persecution of Jews was already well underway.

“Sport has the power to unite, to inspire, and to elevate the very best of humanity. But history reminds us that it can also be manipulated to sanitize hatred and normalize exclusion. The lesson of Berlin is urgent. When antisemitism resurfaces in public life, whether in stadiums, streets, or online, silence is not neutrality. It is complicity.”

The IOC defended its decision to produce and sell the T-shirt. In a statement sent to CNN, an IO

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By Alexandra Banner, CNN

It’s Friday the 13th — a day cloaked in superstition, when even the most rational people knock on wood just in case. Cursed or not, it has a way of making an ordinary day feel slightly ominous. If you dig deeper, though, there’s evidence that both Fridays and the number 13 have long been regarded as a harbinger of good fortune.

Here’s what else you need to know to get up to speed and on with your day.

1⃣ DHS shutdown

A shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security is all but certain this weekend after lawmakers left town for a planned recess with no funding deal in place. Republican congressional leaders have blamed Democrats, saying the White House made reasonable concessions after several Democratic leaders demanded changes to ICE protocols. The next steps are uncertain. With talks ongoing between the White House and Democrats, the two chambers of Congress aren’t scheduled to return to Washington for 11 days, though GOP leaders could still call members back if a deal is reached.

2⃣ Minnesota surge ending

White House border czar Tom Homan announced Thursday that the monthslong immigration enforcement crackdown in Minnesota would be ending. “I have proposed, and President Trump has concurred, that this surge operation conclude,” Homan said. Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey expressed “cautious relief” at the end of Operation Metro Surge, which sparked mass protests, thousands of arrests and the deaths of two US citizens. At its height, about 3,000 federal officers were deployed in what was the largest immigration enforcement operation in the country’s history.

3⃣ Nancy Guthrie

The FBI on Thursday shared a description of a suspect in the Nancy Guthrie case and also raised the reward for information to $100,000. The person in the video is described as a 5’9” to 5’10” man with an average build wearing a black, 25-liter Ozark Trail Hiker Pack. “We hope this updated description will help concentrate the public tips we are receiving,” the FBI’s Phoenix office said. Investigators have also recovered multiple gloves, though it’s unclear whether they were worn by the suspect. People living near Guthrie’s home have been asked to submit any footage from doorbell cameras of cars and people from about a month before the 84-year-old went missing.

4⃣ Epstein fallout

Kathy Ruemmler, the chief legal officer at Goldman Sachs, said late Thursday that she is resigning amid fallout from the Justice Department’s release of millions of pages of Jeffrey Epstein documents. Her announcement comes in the middle of recent scrutiny of her relationship with the disgraced financier, which she maintains was professional. Separately, powerhouse talent agent Casey Wasserman is facing a revolt after appearing in the Epstein

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By Alexandra Banner, CNN

It’s Friday the 13th — a day cloaked in superstition, when even the most rational people knock on wood just in case. Cursed or not, it has a way of making an ordinary day feel slightly ominous. If you dig deeper, though, there’s evidence that both Fridays and the number 13 have long been regarded as a harbinger of good fortune.

Here’s what else you need to know to get up to speed and on with your day.

1⃣ DHS shutdown

A shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security is all but certain this weekend after lawmakers left town for a planned recess with no funding deal in place. Republican congressional leaders have blamed Democrats, saying the White House made reasonable concessions after several Democratic leaders demanded changes to ICE protocols. The next steps are uncertain. With talks ongoing between the White House and Democrats, the two chambers of Congress aren’t scheduled to return to Washington for 11 days, though GOP leaders could still call members back if a deal is reached.

2⃣ Minnesota surge ending

White House border czar Tom Homan announced Thursday that the monthslong immigration enforcement crackdown in Minnesota would be ending. “I have proposed, and President Trump has concurred, that this surge operation conclude,” Homan said. Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey expressed “cautious relief” at the end of Operation Metro Surge, which sparked mass protests, thousands of arrests and the deaths of two US citizens. At its height, about 3,000 federal officers were deployed in what was the largest immigration enforcement operation in the country’s history.

3⃣ Nancy Guthrie

The FBI on Thursday shared a description of a suspect in the Nancy Guthrie case and also raised the reward for information to $100,000. The person in the video is described as a 5’9” to 5’10” man with an average build wearing a black, 25-liter Ozark Trail Hiker Pack. “We hope this updated description will help concentrate the public tips we are receiving,” the FBI’s Phoenix office said. Investigators have also recovered multiple gloves, though it’s unclear whether they were worn by the suspect. People living near Guthrie’s home have been asked to submit any footage from doorbell cameras of cars and people from about a month before the 84-year-old went missing.

4⃣ Epstein fallout

Kathy Ruemmler, the chief legal officer at Goldman Sachs, said late Thursday that she is resigning amid fallout from the Justice Department’s release of millions of pages of Jeffrey Epstein documents. Her announcement comes in the middle of recent scrutiny of her relationship with the disgraced financier, which she maintains was professional. Separately, powerhouse talent agent Casey Wasserman is facing a revolt after appearing in the Epstein

Por Jennifer Hansler, Kylie Atwood y Priscilla Álvarez, CNN

La administración Trump ha gastado más de US$ 30 millones para enviar inmigrantes a países lejanos que no son los suyos, incluyendo, en algunos casos, el pago de más de US$ 1 millón por persona, según un nuevo informe del presidente demócrata de la Comisión de Relaciones Exteriores del Senado.

En otros casos, según el informe, la administración pagó para deportar a los inmigrantes a un tercer país y luego pagó nuevamente para devolverlos a su país de origen.

El informe, publicado el viernes, dice que la administración ha firmado acuerdos de alto costo para el regreso de “un número relativamente pequeño de ciudadanos de terceros países”.

El informe, dirigido por la integrante de mayor rango de la Comisión de Relaciones Exteriores del Senado, la senadora Jeanne Shaheen, ofrece una de las miradas más completas a los acuerdos de deportación de terceros países de la administración, luego de las críticas de que el gobierno ha sido vago sobre los detalles de esos acuerdos.

La administración Trump ha impulsado estos acuerdos como parte de su agresiva agenda de deportación, argumentando que los inmigrantes deportados a terceros países no habrían sido aceptados en sus países de origen. Históricamente, las tensas relaciones diplomáticas han dificultado que Estados Unidos devuelva a ciertos ciudadanos a sus países de origen.

En virtud de estos acuerdos, los países aceptan —a menudo a cambio de dinero, favores políticos o ambos— aceptar inmigrantes que no sean ciudadanos de esos países. Muchos de los intentos de deportar a estos nacionales a terceros países se han topado con impugnaciones legales.

Según el informe, la administración tiene un acuerdo con o ha enviado a nacionales de terceros países a más de 20 países y está buscando acuerdos con docenas de países más.

El informe de la minoría también fue firmado por los senadores Chris Coons, Tim Kaine, Tammy Duckworth, Jacky Rosen y Chris Van Hollen. Señala que “se desconoce el costo total de las deportaciones a terceros países realizadas por la administración Trump hasta enero de 2026, pero es probable que supere los US$ 40 millones”.

Los acuerdos con cinco gobiernos —Guinea Ecuatorial, Ruanda, El Salvador, Eswatini y Palau— han costado más de US$ 32 millones y gran parte de esa financiación se ha proporcionado “en pagos únicos, a menudo antes de que llegaran los nacionales de terceros países”, según el informe.

Los cinco países que recibieron los pagos de US$ 1 millón en conjunto solo recibieron alrededor de 300 ciudadanos de terceros países procedentes de Estados Unidos.

El informe señala que la administración a menudo utiliza aviones militares de alto costo para deportar a los migrantes, incluso en vuelos con un número pequeño de personas.

“Se estima que la administración Trump gastó más de US$ 7,2 millones en vuelos de deportación desde terceros países hasta enero de 2026 a al menos diez países, y es probable que los costos reales sean mucho mayores”, afirma el informe.

El informe dice que se basa “en una revisión de los acuerdos hasta enero de 2026, viajes del personal a países relevantes y reuniones y comunicación con funcionarios estadounidenses, funcionarios de gobiernos extranjeros, organizaciones de derechos humanos, deportados y abogados”.

Un asesor de la comisión demócrata afirmó que plantearon varias preguntas a la administración en reuniones limitadas. Si bien la administración proporcionó información en algunos casos, no han informado al comité sobre los acuerdos en su conjunto, añadió.

CNN se ha comunicado con el Departamento de Estado y el Departamento de Seguridad Nacional para solicitar comentarios.

Y “a partir de enero de 2026, más del 80 % de