By Jacqui Palumbo, CNN When she was four, the artist Widline Cadet was separated from her mother for six years as she emigrated from Haiti to New York to pursue a better life for her family. Cadet, her father and older sister remained in Thomassin, eventually joining her. During that time, her father would travel
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By Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — Despite Eurovision’s insistence it is apolitical, politics has always been part of the continent-wide song contest, as much a feature as whatever constellation of pyrotechnics and power ballads are on display that year. But where, previously, politics was somewhat of a punchline, a useful indicator for cynical fans to
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By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN (CNN) — On “Margo’s Got Money Troubles,” Elle Fanning’s Margo paints her entire body a metallic green. Her aim? To fully embody her OnlyFans persona, an earthside alien named The Hungry Ghost, who offers mild nudity and harsh criticism of her willing subscribers’ genitalia. The earnings that Margo, a single mom,
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By Lilit Marcus, CNN Koror, Palau (CNN) — A neon-pink blob appears in my line of vision. Even though I’m wearing a snorkel mask, I’m holding my breath. Slowly, the blob floats closer and closer before suddenly puffing up like a balloon. The water is swirling in its tiny wake and the sun glowing above
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By Leah Dolan, CNN (CNN) — At the 79th Cannes Film Festival, which concluded on Saturday, there was no shortage of interesting, unusual and plainly fabulous fashion. This year, the storied celebration of film held on the French Riviera looked a little less “Mission: Impossible,” which premiered on the Croisette in 2025, and a lot
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By Griffin Shea, CNN Kampala (CNN) — When Emmanuel Jonathan Okello decided to open a restaurant, he knew exactly what the menu would include: Rolexes. “There’s a common saying; in Uganda, we don’t wear the Rolex. We eat the rolex,” he said. Now a national dish in the East African country, and beyond, the humble
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By Carole Rosenblat (CNN) — Christina and Eric Schwendeman’s travels had them bouncing around Asia for several months early last year. In the spring, the American retirees returned to their home base in Italy for a few months. But because of 90-day restrictions on stays, the couple spent the next three months on the go
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By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — Dua Lipa is suing South Korean technology firm Samsung in a US court for using an image of her without her consent. The complaint relates to the use of a photograph of the British singer on cardboard packaging for Samsung television sets sold across the US, according to legal
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By Lianne Kolirin, CNN (CNN) — Martin Short has spoken publicly for the first time about the “nightmare” of losing his daughter Katherine earlier this year. The “Only Murders in the Building” star told CBS in an exclusive interview aired Sunday that Katherine’s death by suicide back in February has been devastating. Katherine Short was
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By Chrissie McClatchie, CNN (CNN) — In the gardens of Paris’ emblematic Champs Élysées, tucked behind the Petit Palais where works by Rembrandt, Gauguin and Cézanne decorate the walls, is an ornate two-story Neoclassical building with a buttercream and forest green façade. The Pavillon Ledoyen is a historic restaurant that since 1792 has hosted names
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By Lilit Marcus, CNN (CNN) — This week in travel news: Korean cafe culture has taken over the world, Delta Air Lines is changing its snack policy, and a cemetery is hoping to become a hot tourist attraction in New York. Love is in the air Angela Buckner was flying from Wichita to New York
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By Fiona Sinclair Scott, CNN Venice (CNN) — After a dramatic lead up to this year’s Venice Biennale, involving the tragic death of its chief curator, outcry over Russia, Israel and the United States’ participation, and a prize jury that abruptly quit, it was, in the end, a set of portable toilets that stole the
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By Ali Halit Diker, CNN (CNN) — Muğla in southwestern Turkey delivers exactly what travelers expect from this corner of the Mediterranean: sunlit coastlines, rugged mountains and the ruins of long-fallen empires. Yet beyond these well-trodden attractions, it hides something far less familiar — a place that attracts a secretive, devoted stream of visitors for
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By Jacqui Palumbo, CNN (CNN) — Generally speaking, you can’t sit on the art in a museum. But in one gallery of the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago — which is currently staged to resemble a karaoke bar complete with a disco ball, stage and jukebox — three plastic chairs, upholstered with the face of
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By Julia Buckley, CNN Milan, Italy (CNN) — With its monumental façade, ornated with Roman-style columns, pedestals, and huge statues — naked men, winged horses, lions’ heads and gargoyles, for starters — Milan’s main train station is a tourist sight in its own right. This is a city that doesn’t do things by halves —
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By Joe Yogerst (CNN) — Disney World, Times Square and Yellowstone National Park can be packed to the rafters with tourists. But there are plenty of other places across the United States that continue to fly beneath the travel radar. While there are literally hundreds of locations that fit that description, here are 25 destinations
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By Amarachi Orie, CNN London (CNN) — The depiction of an enslaved Black child known as “Jersey” by celebrated 18th-century portrait painter Joshua Reynolds has long puzzled art historians, raising questions about the boy’s identity and life — and whether or not he was even real. Now, researchers in London say they finally have some
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By Lianne Kolirin, CNN (CNN) — Artworks by Renoir, Degas and Rodin that are believed to have been looted by the Nazis from their Jewish owners have gone on display at the Musée d’Orsay in Paris. The museum, home to the world’s largest collection of impressionist and post-impressionist art, has this week taken a significant
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By Charlotte Reck, CNN (CNN) — A German tourist has been awarded more than 900 euros (about $1,100) by judges after his family was left without sun loungers while on vacation in Greece because other guests had got there first. While vacationing with his wife and two children on the island of Kos during the
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By Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN (CNN) — They’ve lived in various destinations, including San Francisco and Ireland, over the years but Geoffrey and Sarah say they’ve never felt as at home as they do in Germany. The couple, who relocated to Breisach, located along the temperate Rhine Valley, in 2023, loves exploring the riverbanks, parks and
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