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CNN By Sharif Paget and Andy Rose, CNN Punches were thrown on a Southwest Airlines plane in Dallas Monday, according to a witness and video, marking the latest incident of unruly passenger behavior. Passengers bound for Phoenix were boarding Flight 117 at Dallas Love Field Airport when a man in a tan blazer confronted another
Continue ReadingBy Amy Simonson, CNN A nearly 8-foot alligator that allegedly was taken from a Texas zoo nearly 20 years ago as an egg or a hatchling has been returned to the facility after it was spotted living illegally in the backyard of a home near Austin, officials say. Investigators were at a property in rural
Continue ReadingBy Ross Levitt, CNN The US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) announced Monday night that it is investigating the first of two February incidents involving a plane that was forced to go around because of another plane on the same runway. The NTSB says the incident occurred on February 16 at Sarasota Bradenton International Airport
Continue ReadingBy Holmes Lybrand, CNN A Massachusetts man was arrested for allegedly attempting to stab a flight attendant in the neck with a broken metal spoon three times during a flight from Los Angeles to Boston on Monday, after attempting to open an emergency exit door, according to the Justice Department. Francisco Severo Torres, 33, faces
Continue ReadingLeah Dolan, CNN When fashion week takes over a city, celebrities are never far from the action — often in carefully curated outfits that live on our moodboards for the rest of the year. The famous faces we see dashing into shows, or seated front row, are an essential part of a brand’s marketing strategy
Continue ReadingBy Pete Muntean and Marnie Hunter, CNN The federal government has rolled out a new online dashboard showing which airlines charge — and do not charge — families to select seats next to each other. The announcement is part of the Biden Administration’s push to end corporate “junk fees,” underscored during President Joe Biden’s State
Continue ReadingFrancesca Street, CNN When Lindz McLeod stepped off the airplane at John F. Kennedy Airport, she felt an immediate jolt of excitement and anticipation. “I had never been to America before at all,” Lindz tells CNN Travel today. “It was really interesting to uproot myself and go to a new continent entirely on my own,
Continue ReadingLianne Kolirin, CNN A portrait of the British actor David Harewood has been commissioned to hang in a stately home belonging to the aristocratic family that once enslaved his ancestors. The portrait of the “Homeland” star will hang on the walls of Harewood House, an 18th-century property near Leeds, northern England, built upon the vast
Continue ReadingMegan C. Hills, CNN Some people travel the world in search of adventure, while others seek out natural wonders, cultural landmarks or culinary experiences. But French photographer François Prost was looking for something altogether different during his recent road trip across America: strip clubs. From Miami to Los Angeles, Prost’s latest book “Gentlemen’s Club” charts
Continue ReadingBy Marnie Hunter, CNN There’s way more to an airport than the mechanics of getting from point A to point B, and the best airports put a lot into making passengers’ journeys as seamless and pleasant as possible. The Airport Service Quality Awards, announced on Monday, recognize the world’s best airports for customer experience. Among
Continue ReadingBy Kia Fatahi, Celina Tebor and Eric Levenson, CNN One person died as a result of severe turbulence on a private business jet that was diverted to the Bradley International Airport in Windsor Locks, Connecticut, on Friday, according to aviation officials. A Bombardier CL30 jet departing from Dillant-Hopkins Airport in Keene, New Hampshire, heading to
Continue ReadingBy Marnie Hunter, CNN America’s least-visited national park is quite a distance from mainland US shores. Almost 5,000 miles away, in fact. The National Park of American Samoa in the South Pacific is the only National Park Service site south of the equator. In 2022, it had just 1,887 visits, according to new visitation figures
Continue ReadingXiaofei Xu and Hafsa Khalil, CNN Rafael Viñoly, the Uruguayan-born architect who designed 20 Fenchurch Street in London, nicknamed “The Walkie-Talkie,” has died, his firm says. He was 78. “On behalf of my family, my co-workers and our many partners throughout the world, I am saddened to report that my father, the founder and namesake
Continue ReadingBy Zoe Sottile, CNN The National Park Service has some bear-y important tips for what not to do if you — and a friend — encounter a bear in the wild. “If you come across a bear, never push a slower friend down,” the agency wrote on Twitter on Tuesday, “even if you feel the
Continue ReadingBy AJ Willingham, CNN There are Disney Park regulars, and then there’s Jeff Reitz. The 50-year-old California native visited Disneyland every day for 2,995 days between 2012 and March 2020, earning him a shiny new Guinness World Record for most consecutive trips to the theme park. Reitz adventure started a decade ago when he found
Continue ReadingBy Maureen O’Hare, CNN This week in travel news: The European Commission will start charging for a new visa waiver scheme next year, plus our pick of Croatian and Italian destinations and new Asian hotels. Europe delays visa waiver scheme till 2024 The long-anticipated ETIAS visa waiver scheme, which will require all non-EU passport holders
Continue ReadingZoe Sottile, CNN Four Aboriginal spears taken by British explorer James Cook in 1770, thought to be some of the oldest surviving artifacts collected by any European from Australia, will be repatriated to the La Perouse Aboriginal community, Cambridge University announced. The spears were originally part of a group of 40 taken by Cook from
Continue ReadingBy Forrest Brown, CNN The folks running TSA security checkpoints at airports have some real humdingers to tell about the things they uncover. Soiled money. Inert grenades. Drugs inside scrunchies. But cats? Live cats? Tucked inside carry-ons? It’s happened before, and now it’s happened again. On Friday morning at Norfolk International Airport in Virginia, a
Continue ReadingHafsa Khalil, CNN A painting by Russian Modernist Wassily Kandinsky that once belonged to victims of the Nazi Holocaust, has sold for £37.2 million ($44.55 million) at Sotheby’s in London. Part of the auction house’s Modern & Contemporary Evening Auction on Wednesday, “Murnau mit Kirche II” (“Murnau with Church II”; 1910), was the most expensive
Continue ReadingJulia Buckley, CNN A private cocoon up in the sky, with even your own heating system that you can turn up and down at whim? That’s what’s on offer in the latest groundbreaking new first class suite unveiled by an airline. For once, though, it’s not a Middle Eastern airline laying on the glitz. Astonishingly,
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