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Month: September 2025

Seeing double: Vermeer painting and its mysterious ‘twin’ go on show

By Gareth Harris (CNN) — One of Johannes Vermeer’s most famous paintings, “The Guitar Player,” has gone on show alongside its “twin” in a new exhibition. “Double Vision: Vermeer,” which opened at London’s Kenwood House on Monday, displays the Dutch master’s original 1672 image of the guitar-playing woman alongside its doppelgänger, “Lady with a Guitar.”

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A Ukrainian service member fires a self-propelled howitzer towards Russian troops near a front line in Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia region

Congress returns to a messy fall with Democrats ready to fight

By Sarah Ferris, Alison Main, CNN (CNN) — Congress is bracing for a politically bruising fall as lawmakers return to Washington on Tuesday, with massive fights upcoming on government funding, the Jeffrey Epstein files and President Donald Trump’s policing push. After a summer of simmering tensions on Trump’s nationwide deportations, National Guard deployment in Washington,

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El Mayo Zambada se declaró culpable y admitió haber sobornado a funcionarios: ¿sabrán los mexicanos alguna vez a quiénes?

Análisis por Rocío Muñoz-Ledo, CNN en Español Durante décadas, Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada dirigió el Cártel de Sinaloa desde las sombras —nunca fue arrestado y rara vez se le vio en público— pero, según los fisclaes estadounidenses, estuvo al mando de una de las organizaciones criminales más poderosas y violentas del mundo. La semana pasada,

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Hotels, beaches and water parks, but where are the tourists? Inside North Korea’s vast — and nearly empty — new resort

By Will Ripley, Katharina Krebs, CNN (CNN) — Miles of white sand, turquoise waters, and rows of pristine beachfront hotels line the shore at the newly built Wonsan-Kalma resort. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un hopes the development will be his country’s answer to Waikiki. But there’s one problem: the tourists aren’t there. When CNN

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