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By Kati Chitrakorn, Hanako Montgomery, CNN Seoul (CNN) — The moment that BTS fans have been waiting for has arrived: Members RM, Jin, Suga, J-Hope, Jimin, V and Jung Kook performing on the stage together for the first time in almost four years. At the heart of BTS’ comeback is a free, public concert in

By Milena Lazazzera, CNN (CNN) — Gemini? Scorpio? Sagittarius? What is your moon sign? And your sun? These are not, it seems, trivial questions for Gen Z. For a growing number, an astrological profile has become a way to express individuality in a generation that places particular value on self-definition. “It has become increasingly common

CNN By Maureen O’Hare, CNN (CNN) — The world’s happiest countries for 2026, what travelers can expect in terms of rising air fares, plus United Airlines cracks down on noisy passengers. Here’s what’s happening in Travel. Noise annoys Here’s a teensy bit of positive news in what’s been a dark and difficult month: United Airlines

By Lilit Marcus, CNN (CNN) — Perched along a craggy rock overhang, the ornate Buddhist temple provides sweeping views of the sea, making it a popular place to watch the sun rise against the beauty of Busan, South Korea’s second-largest city. But Haedong Yonggungsa is so much more than a place of worship. The temple

By Jeanne Bonner, CNN (CNN) — If happiness were an Olympic event, the Nordic countries would be guaranteed a spot on the podium. Actually, all three spots on the podium. According to the latest edition of the World Happiness Report, the three happiest countries in the world are Finland, Iceland and Denmark. Finland was named

By Lisa Morrow, CNN (CNN) — On hot summer nights, a long line forms near the waterfront of Eski Foça, a small town on Turkey’s Aegean coast. Laughter and chatter fill the air as travelers wait for their turn to buy sakız dondurma, the local ice cream. It’s a town shaped by thousands of years

By Oscar Holland, CNN Singapore (CNN) — It was pushing 4 a.m. when Vignesh Sundaresan bought one of the most expensive artworks in history. Wearing his favorite T-shirt for the occasion, he had stayed up through the night on his iMac, at home alone, watching rival bids trickle in. A row of Starbucks coffee cups

By Maureen O’Hare, CNN (CNN) — For many around the world, St. Patrick’s Day is a celebration of green beer, fiddle music, and the best holiday after Halloween for wearing a silly hat and throwing up in the street. For me, though, as a child growing up in the Northern Irish town of Downpatrick, the

By Sam Peters, CNN Hakuba, Japan (CNN) — At 5 p.m., the line outside Ohyokkuri has already begun to form. The traditional izakaya, or pub, is so popular that people start waiting outside for half an hour before it opens to get a seat. On the other side of the village, skiers at the Après

By Leah Dolan, CNN (CNN) — The Oscars red carpet is typically viewed as the apex of awards season dressing. What the stars wear to the Dolby Theater in March is the culmination of months of business negotiations between talent agencies, stylists and fashion houses, generating millions of views for brands and, when successful, can

CNN By Jacqui Palumbo, CNN (CNN) — After feathers fully took over fall fashion weeks, we predicted that veritable flocks of birds would arrive by spring. And so they did on Sunday at the Academy Awards, where some of the evening’s boldest looks featured showstopping plumage. Actor Demi Moore, who presented during the ceremony, arrived

By Jacqui Palumbo, CNN (CNN) — After feathers fully took over fall fashion weeks, we predicted that veritable flocks of birds would arrive by spring. And so they did on Sunday at the Academy Awards, where some of the evening’s boldest looks featured showstopping plumage. Actor Demi Moore, who presented during the ceremony, arrived in

By Maureen O’Hare, CNN (CNN) — In our travel news roundup this week: the 200th anniversary of a revolutionary suspension bridge, Time Out’s best cities for 2026, plus what the Iran war means for your travel plans. The world’s ‘best cities’ British media group Time Out has named its “best cities for 2026,” and half

By Julia Buckley, CNN (CNN) — Since Italy became a country in 1861, there has been a surefire way to know who is and isn’t an Italian citizen: look at their parents. The first page of the civil code, published in 1865 as the rulebook to Europe’s newest country, declared that a child born to

By Leah Asmelash, Scottie Andrew, CNN (CNN) — Across medieval Europe, aristocrats repeatedly set off fashion fads and scandals by wearing poulaines, shoes whose flamboyantly elongated pointed toes could stretch far beyond the natural length of their feet. In President Donald Trump’s Oval Office, a different stylistic choice caught the public’s eye this week: Photos

By Leah Dolan, CNN (CNN) — This week, fashion editors, influencers and those generally in the business of expensive clothes went green with envy at the sight of Harry Styles. Not just for the reasons one might expect (dashing good looks, fame and fortune) but because he was carrying a maxi leopard print Chanel flap

By CNN Travel staff, CNN (CNN) — From the gas pump to the superstore checkout, the repercussions of the war with Iran will soon start to eat into household budgets around the world. And while these everyday concerns pale compared to the terrors of conflict experienced by those in the firing line, they’re a reality

By Sam Peters, CNN (CNN) — The head chef and co-founder of Noma, one of the highest-rated restaurants in the world and recipient of three Michelin stars, has resigned following allegations that he physically and psychologically abused staff. René Redzepi announced on social media Wednesday that he was stepping down from leading the Copenhagen restaurant.

By Oscar Holland, CNN (CNN) — Chilean architect Smiljan Radić, whose often-experimental designs include a doughnut-shaped pavilion in London and a restaurant held up by boulders in Santiago, was named the winner of this year’s Pritzker Prize — an award often dubbed the field’s equivalent to a Nobel Prize — on Thursday. While the 60-year-old’s

By Rachel Tashjian, CNN Paris (CNN) — At the Paris fashion shows that wrapped this week, there were luxuriously plain black dresses and coats of the kind favored by Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, models strutting down runways with theatrical flourishes, and in some cases, no cellphones in sight. Gen-X icons, including actress Chloe Sevigny and supermodel

By Joe Yogerst, CNN Scattered across the Seto Inland Sea, the islands of the Geiyo archipelago have long been under the radar. Until 1999, that is, when the final link of the Shimanami Kaido highway opened, connecting Japan’s main island of Honshu to the island of Shikoku, passing through six small islands. The planners had

By Jacqui Palumbo, CNN (CNN) — Before South African high school students complete their final exams, they first walk the red carpet, pulling out all the stops for their celebratory matriculation, or ‘matric,’ balls. The dances may look different from school to school, but they have earned a reputation as mini Met Galas – from

By Rachel Tashjian, CNN Paris (CNN) — “Stop this world, let me off,” the blues musician Mose Allison once crooned – a relatable sentiment when war has broken out, inequality is top of mind and a general darkness hovers over almost all things. Allison never intoned just which stop he’d like to get off on

By Julia Buckley, CNN (CNN) — It was built to ferry horse-drawn carriages across a notoriously wild stretch of water, and was a crucial connection between two island nations during Europe’s industrial revolution. When it was constructed in 1826, the bridge across the Menai Strait, between the north Wales mainland and the island of Anglesey,

By Oscar Holland, CNN To the untrained eye, there is very little difference between the three known versions of “The Lute Player.” Almost identical in composition, the paintings all depict a young, doe-eyed subject in white robes, instrument in hand and turned slightly away from the viewer. Each appears to carry Italian painter Caravaggio’s signature

By Maureen O’Hare, CNN (CNN) — In our roundup of travel news this week, why social bathhouses are a hot new wellness trend, the Portuguese chicken shop Chinese tourists are traveling thousands of miles to visit, plus travel chaos in the Middle East. Cool to be hot Look away, Nordic sauna purists. Social bathhouses have

By Fiona Sinclair Scott, CNN London (CNN) — In Trump’s America, the question of what art is shown in national galleries and museums is a potent one, and Catherine Opie believes she knows when she’s not welcome. “There’s absolutely no way the Smithsonian will show me right now,” she says while overseeing the final installation

By Karen Esquivel, CNN en Español (CNN) — Yesica Aramburo traveled on vacation to Mexico in April 2017 for the festivities in her Mexican family’s town of La Moncada, Guanajuato, in the center of the country. She never thought that this brief visit would change her life and lead her to find love. At the

By Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN (CNN) — Iran’s recent strikes on Dubai have done considerable damage to Dubai’s reputation as a “safe haven.” And the front lines of the public relation war are a glamorous cadre of high profile influencers based there. “You live in Dubai, aren’t you scared?” They’re putting on a collective brave face,

By Leah Dolan, CNN (CNN) — Since the invention of moving pictures, directors have been drawn to Mary Shelley’s 19th century gothic classic, “Frankenstein.” In 1931 James Whale offered his definitive take on the story with actor Boris Karloff’s flat-topped skull and grunting speech. The film was a commercial hit and solidified Universal Pictures’ reputation

By Alex Leeds Matthews, Soph Warnes, Rosa de Acosta, Rhyannon Bartlett-Imadegawa, Lou Robinson, Renée Rigdon, CNN (CNN) — Hundreds of thousands of travelers are stranded in the Middle East after the cancellation of thousands of flights as war rages across the region, though some airports are starting to get more flights out as the war

By Jacqui Palumbo, CNN (CNN) — In front of the Louvre Pyramid, Eileen Gu stepped out this week wearing a set of diaphanous wings — a fitting ensemble for an Olympic athlete whose sport sends her airborne. Gu attended the museum’s second annual fundraiser, Le Grand Dîner du Louvre, timed to Paris Fashion Week, trading

By Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN (CNN) — He got his first motorcycle at 15, and Steven Barnett, originally from Los Angeles, has ridden across nearly 80 countries in the five decades since. Now, at 77, he’s preparing for the biggest adventure of his life: an attempt to set the record for the oldest man to motorcycle

By Kati Chitrakorn, CNN London (CNN) — Soccer star Chloe Kelly plays as a forward for Arsenal, the Women’s Super League club in England. Known for her blistering pace and powerful shots, she’s also part of England’s women’s national football team, the Lionesses, which reached the World Cup final in 2023. And now she’s also

By Jen Rose Smith, CNN Montreal (CNN) — By the time DJ Brinassa dropped her throbbing house beat, the barely clad Friday crowd at Montreal’s newest going-out spot was already glistening with sweat. It wasn’t just the subtle glow that comes from a night on the dance floor. At 10 p.m. inside RECESS Thermal Station

By Karla Cripps, Marnie Hunter, Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — Countries around the world are still working to safely return nationals stranded by war in the Middle East, with more evacuation flights set to take off in the coming days. However, the situation remains challenging and flight schedules are likely to be disrupted for some

By Francesca Street, CNN (CNN) — Lesley Ballantyne woke in the early hours to an emergency alert flashing on her phone: “Potential missile threats, seek immediate shelter in the closest secure building.” Her partner, Alistair, seemed to have slept through it. Ballantyne got out of bed and peered through the cabin window. Outside, nothing but

By David G. Allan, CNN Flagstaff, Arizona (CNN) — For no explainable practical reason, humans are enamored with – and even empathetic toward – specific inanimate objects. Our first car. A choice coffee mug. And for a particular subset of the population, that extends to a dimly lit frozen sphere currently 3.3 billion miles away.

By Rachel Tashjian, CNN Milan, Italy (CNN) — There comes a time during fashion week, as you look at a throng of photographers fighting to capture photos of someone very thin wearing a very dated outfit, or watch Priscilla Chan — alongside her husband, Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg — stride into the Prada show wearing

By Francesca Street, CNN (CNN) — Open the airplane-tracking website Flightradar24 right now and the change is unmistakable. Where one of the world’s busiest aviation crossroads should be — a dense web of aircraft linking Europe, Asia and Africa — there is instead a yawning gap. A hole in the sky. As conflict escalates in

By Marnie Hunter, Karla Cripps, CNN (CNN) — The war with Iran continues to cause aviation chaos in the Middle East and beyond as some of the world’s busiest airports attempt to manage the fallout of airspace closures, with only a limited number of flights now departing the region. The US is advising its citizens

By Oscar Holland and Stephy Chung, CNN; Photo editor: Jennifer Arnow, CNN (CNN) — The Screen Actors Guild Awards returned on Sunday evening, complete with a new name — and, for the first time ever, a thematic dress code. Now known as the Actor Awards, the annual ceremony’s 32nd edition sent attendees very specific sartorial

By Maureen O’Hare, CNN (CNN) — In our roundup of travel stories this week: a man recreates his father’s round-the-world bicycle trip, a luxury yacht that turned out to be a mold-covered wreck, plus the ancient Roman city 10 times the size of Disneyland. Built to last Jetavanaramaya, a colossal fourth-century Sri Lankan monument, was

By Rachel Tashjian, CNN Milan, Italy (CNN) — Backstage at the runway debut of the new new Gucci – the third rebrand that the luxury titan has undergone since Alessandro Michele left in 2022 – designer Demna was feeling the amore. “I hope I made you feel Gucci today,” he said. “The energy, the passion,

By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — Australian photographer Matty Smith has been named Underwater Photographer of the Year (UPY) 2026 for his image of a pair of southern elephant seal pups in a rockpool on the Falkland Islands. Named “Rockpool Rookies,” the photograph was named the overall winner of the awards, which received more than

By Barry Neild, CNN (CNN) — At first glance, the two photos almost look like duplicates: A young cyclist beneath the glaciers near Everest Base Camp, bike hoisted on his shoulders, face fixed in determination. The images could’ve been taken within seconds of each other — same spot, same light, same shadows. Yet they were

CNN By Jacqui Palumbo, CNN Picture this: You quit your mind-numbing corporate job for an agrarian lifestyle when your deceased grandfather leaves you his cottage on a plot of verdant farmland. Soon you are tending to seasonal crops, petting your pigs and ducks, running a DIY natural wine operation out of a shed, and romancing

By Jacqui Palumbo, CNN Picture this: You quit your mind-numbing corporate job for an agrarian lifestyle when your deceased grandfather leaves you his cottage on a plot of verdant farmland. Soon you are tending to seasonal crops, petting your pigs and ducks, running a DIY natural wine operation out of a shed, and romancing the

By Caroline Tell, CNN (CNN) — Evan Glassman has been traveling to Deer Valley in Utah for over a decade, drawn by its meticulously groomed runs, reliable service and convenient four-hour flight from his New York home. That loyalty held for years — until this winter. This season, Glassman redirected his annual family ski trip

By Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — It’s not just Ilya Rozanov who is coming to the cottage. Anyone can now visit the famous site to which Ilya and Shane Hollander retreat in the emotional final episode of HBO’s “Heated Rivalry.” The cottage, the cottage, will be listed on Airbnb next month, allowing fans to enjoy

By Kati Chitrakorn, Leah Dolan, CNN London (CNN) — This season at London Fashion Week, designers made it clear that a runway is no longer the only way to go about staging a show. For every high-octane catwalk across the five-day schedule, there were a number of relaxed presentations and informal gatherings as some brands

By Fiona Sinclair Scott, CNN London (CNN) — February in London is a complete misery of a time. The days are still short, the ground is wet and vitamin D levels are low. Hunkering down at home is surely the best course of action. At the Burberry show on Monday night, the brand’s creative director

By Georgiana Ralphs, CNN (CNN) — From the shorelines of Perth in southwestern Australia, a towering blue hill can be seen jutting out of the horizon. Some days it seems so close you could touch it. Other days it’s hidden by mist or passing ships. “Sometimes it wants to be seen and sometimes it wants

By Christopher Lamb and Lianne Kolirin, CNN (CNN) — The remains of St. Francis of Assisi have gone on public display for the first time, marking 800 years since the saint’s death. The skeleton of the saint was exhumed from its sarcophagus in the crypt of the Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi, in the

By Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN (CNN) — Each time she steps out of her apartment in Montmartre and heads to the tiny courtyard around the corner, Michelle Harris has no idea how long the errand will take. “I could be gone for two minutes, or maybe an hour, particularly in the summer,” Harris, originally from Virginia,

By Leah Dolan, CNN London (CNN) — As if there weren’t already enough showstopping outfits at London Fashion Week this weekend, the coinciding 79th British Academy Film Awards on Sunday offered another stage for brands to showcase their designs as Hollywood A-listers including Timothée Chalamet, Teyana Taylor, Chase Infiniti, Ethan Hawke and Kirsten Dunst descended

By Oscar Holland, CNN (CNN) — The Prince and Princess of Wales put on a color-coordinated show of unity at the BAFTA Film Awards on Sunday, marking the second high-profile public appearance by senior royals since Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor was arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office. Arriving in complementary outfits — the burgundy waistband

By Maureen O’Hare, CNN (CNN) — In our roundup of CNN Travel stories this week: five-star luxury in Turkey, a fairytale castle with an underground Nazi complex, plus a bikini problem on an Australian bus. Extreme climates Canadian winters are not for the unprepared. Temperatures can drop as low as -4 F (-20 C) in

By Rachel Tashjian, CNN (CNN) — First Lady Melania Trump stood in front of reporters, supporters and colleagues at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History on Friday in an ensemble of frosty wealth essentials – a Bottega Veneta peacoat, leather leggings and Christian Louboutin snakeskin heels – and extolled the virtues of a slash

By Amarachi Orie, CNN (CNN) — Olympic figure skater Alysa Liu has earned her stripes. “I feel good, I feel confident and I put it all out there,” the 20-year-old said Thursday after winning America’s first gold medal in the Winter Olympics’ women’s free skating event since 2002. But before becoming a champion, Liu had

By Sadie Andrew, CNN Wieliczka, Poland (CNN) — Down at the bottom of 380 dizzying steps, the walls are an imperfect gray. They look like rock — but they taste salty. How do visitors know? They’re encouraged to lick them. Just to the southeast of Krakow, Poland’s second-largest city, lies the underground realm of the

By Rachel Tashjian, CNN (CNN) — For the past few years now, movie stars have publicized their films in promotional drag called “method dressing.” Picking up on the themes or cliches of their films, they appear on the red carpet in looks that function as goofy in-jokes – corsets on Margot Robbie for the bodice-

By Leah Dolan, CNN London (CNN) — London Fashion Week was given a royal christening of sorts on Thursday afternoon when King Charles sat front row on a gold cushion at British Nigerian designer Tolu Coker’s Fall-Winter 2026 show. Charles, whose brother Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor was arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office on Thursday

By Rachel Tashjian, CNN (CNN) — Did you know there is a special way to wear a black turtleneck that only one chilly blonde in the history of the world knew about? And that no one will ever figure out how to wear a turtleneck that way again? Of course, this isn’t true — anyone

By Ulrike Lemmin-Woolfrey, CNN (CNN) — When summers hit Qatar, most people retreat indoors during the heat of the day, sheltering at home or work with the aircon cranked high or visiting super-cooled shopping malls — and driving between them in cars chilled to refrigerator temperatures. Being out in the open is something to be

By Kati Chitrakorn, CNN (CNN) — These days, attend any K-pop concert – whether it’s Blackpink or BTS – and you’ll find a crowd of diverse fans coming from all over the world and singing along, even though the songs are primarily in Korean. It’s a telling symbol of South Korea’s push to diversify and

CNN, INSTAGRAM, LISA MCKINNON, Instagram/Lisa McKinnon By Karin Caifa (CNN) – Before the sequins and the sparkle, there are sketches, hand stitches, a design niche and even rules of the sport to consider when making a skating costume. Los Angeles-based designer Lisa McKinnon, who started skating at age 4, began making her own costumes when

By Karin Caifa (CNN) – Before the sequins and the sparkle, there are sketches, hand stitches, a design niche and even rules of the sport to consider when making a skating costume. Los Angeles-based designer Lisa McKinnon, who started skating at age 4, began making her own costumes when she was 12. Her craftsmanship caught

By Gareth Harris (CNN) — A new exhibit at the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) in London captures the moment YouTube was born more than 20 years ago. “The V&A has acquired a reconstructed early webpage and the first video ever uploaded to the platform by co-founder Jawed Karim,” a V&A spokesperson said. The reconstruction

By Tiago Palma, CNN Lisbon (CNN) — In a city of beautiful streets, Lisbon’s Travessa da Tapada is easy to miss. Lined by parked cars, it’s a short run of apartment buildings linking busier thoroughfares, soundtracked by the rumble of traffic from the nearby elevated A2 highway. And yet, each day, a steady parade of

By Rachel Tashjian, CNN New York (CNN) — Much of the world is reeling from heinous realizations about men following the newly released tranche of Epstein files: that men in elite posts across government, business and academia have run the world corrupt and unchecked; that such men can pull the strings that influence everything from

By Vivian Song, CNN Toronto (CNN) — It’s lunch hour on a wintry Wednesday afternoon and the streets of Toronto’s Financial District feel eerily abandoned. Snow flurries are blowing at an angle, the sky is a leaden grey, and visibility is poor. Only a handful of pedestrians mummified in puffer coats can be seen waddling

By Precious Adesina, CNN London, United Kingdom (CNN) — On a rainy afternoon in London, Yin Xiuzhen sits under a canopy of red, pink, purple and orange garments stretched over a steel frame. From inside, the carpeted dome, complete with rugs and cushions, makes a vibrant sanctuary. From the outside, the structure, which stands next

By Stephy Chung, CNN (CNN) — Every Lunar New Year, brands release zodiac animal-themed merchandise and items in the lucky color red. This year, there’s one product that has cut through all the noise: the Adidas Chinese Track Top. It wasn’t explicitly marketed for the festive season, but has been unofficially dubbed the “Chinese New

By Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN (CNN) — An Italian coastal beauty spot known as “Lovers’ Arch” because of its popularity with courting couples collapsed during heavy storms on Valentine’s Day in what one local official called “a blow to the heart.” Faraglioni di Sant’Andrea, the site of an arch in the stone cliffs on the

By Maggie Hiufu Wong, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — If there’s one common theme to emerge from the many Lunar New Year rituals attached to the annual celebration, from the food we eat to the activities we join, it’s the collective hope that we’re ushering in luck, prosperity and good vibes for ourselves and everyone

CNN By Lilit Marcus, CNN (CNN) — It was when she got to San Diego, of all places, that Elizabeth Gilbert realized everything had changed. She had left home as the author of a reasonably successful, year-old memoir titled “Eat, Pray, Love,” a first-person fusion of travelogue, confessional, and self-help manual, tracing her post-divorce journeys

By Lilit Marcus, CNN (CNN) — It was when she got to San Diego, of all places, that Elizabeth Gilbert realized everything had changed. She had left home as the author of a reasonably successful, year-old memoir titled “Eat, Pray, Love,” a first-person fusion of travelogue, confessional, and self-help manual, tracing her post-divorce journeys to

By David G. Allan, CNN (CNN) — For over a century, skiing has been more than transportation or sport. It’s been a lifestyle, emphasis on the second syllable. Ernest Hemingway drew a romantically colorful portrait of spending a few winters in the Austrian Alps in the early 1920s. At the end of his biographical “A

By Maggie Hiufu Wong, CNN Grab your saddle and put on your riding boots — it’s time to stampede into the Year of the Horse. Lunar New Year, widely considered the most important event of the year in China and Chinese communities around the planet, is nearly here. Marking the first new moon of the

By Zoe Whitfield, CNN (CNN) — Born in Ramallah at the end of the ‘90s, Ayham Hassan grew up privy to the political weight attributed to certain sartorial practices. “I became aware early on that Palestinian textiles are not just objects,” said the designer, who is based between London and the occupied West Bank. “They

By Maureen Ohare, CNN (CNN) — In our travel roundup this week: why British Chinese food is baffling to Americans, the couple who bought an Italian mansion sight unseen, plus who’s staying in North Korea’s luxury hotels. A home in Italy Vito Andrea Racanelli’s ancestors migrated from Italy to America in the late 1800s. More

By Rachel Tashjian, CNN (CNN) — American designers have a very special someone on their moodboards this season: themselves. Marc Jacobs namechecked his own collections from 1993, 1995, 1998, 2003 and 2013 as influences in his show notes (alongside ’90s Prada and the cult Lower East Side vintage store Ellen). Michael Kors, celebrating his brand’s

By Amarachi Orie, CNN (CNN) — A Sydney council has banned beachgoers from boarding a community bus while shirtless or wearing bikinis, reigniting a decades-old debate over public decency in Australia. “Please dress appropriately. Clothing must be worn over swimwear,” reads a sign for the Hop, Skip and Jump bus, which is funded by Northern

By Jeanne Bonner, CNN (CNN) — Steven Wright knew he had a problem long before the first snowflake fell. Wright, who runs the Jay Peak ski resort in northern Vermont, realized something was wrong last summer while talking to Canadian season pass holders who had decided they wouldn’t be coming to the US — or

By Jacqui Palumbo, CNN (CNN) — On a brisk winter day in Chicago last month, mammoths seemed to return for a fleeting afternoon. The ancient leviathans lumbered along the lakefront, the city skyline behind them. But visible through their skeletons, made of metal and hair, were puffer coats and scarves. Performers hoisted the animal-like sculptures

Silvia Marchetti (CNN) — His ancestors migrated from Italy to the United States in the late 1800s, and a century and a half later, Vito Andrea Racanelli decided to do it all in reverse — leaving his home in Denver to return to the country his family left behind. Unlike many Americans who have been