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Facebook Tweet Email Link New York — Americans are back-to-school shopping earlier than previous years due to fears of tariffs raising prices. Families with tighter budgets are finding deals in a less traditional place: pawn shops. Families plan to spend about 2% less this back-to-school season compared to last year, according to a survey from the National Retail Federation. Pawn shop owners told CNN they are seeing more Americans coming in for back-to-school essentials. “With the way the economy is right now, people realize that they can go to a pawn shop anywhere in the United States, and they can…
Facebook Tweet Email Link It was the best day Ukraine has had in a very long time. But it’s still hard to see how the war unleashed by Russia’s brutal invasion ends any time soon. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visited the White House on Monday and, unlike last time, there wasn’t a blow-up in the Oval Office. President Donald Trump offered tantalizing glimpses of how he could approach presidential greatness by saving Ukraine, securing Europe and genuinely deserving the Nobel Peace Prize. A phalanx of European leaders who came to support Zelensky were impressive and unusually unified despite their wide…
Facebook Tweet Email Link Brisbane, Australia — The family of a fugitive father who’s been hiding his three children in the dense New Zealand wilderness for nearly four years has spoken publicly for the first time since they disappeared. Thomas Callam Phillips vanished with his children in December 2021, and despite several sightings, appeals for help, and a police search, the family’s location remains unknown. Police are seriously concerned for the children, Ember, Maverick, and Jayda – believed to be ages 9, 10 and 12, respectively – who’ve had no contact with their mother since their father failed to bring…
Facebook Tweet Email Link During Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s visit to the White House on Monday, he spoke with a familiar figure – a right-wing reporter who had famously called out his choice of attire during Zelensky’s contentious meeting with President Donald Trump earlier in the year. This time, however, the tone – and the clothing – was markedly different. “You look fabulous in that suit,” said Brian Glenn, a pro-Trump pundit who works for MAGA streaming startup Real America’s Voice. “I said the same thing,” Trump remarked, turning to Zelensky and telling him: “Isn’t that nice? That’s the one…
Facebook Tweet Email Link London — The French are known for their love of fine wines. La Popote, a French-style restaurant in northern England, is no exception. The Michelin Guide-listed eatery in the county of Cheshire offers diners the choice of almost 140 varieties of wine. But now the business is taking a bold step to cater for discerning non-drinkers by offering an entire menu of bottled water. Diners will have the choice of three different bottles of still water and four sparkling beginning Friday, as well as complimentary tap water. La Popote is tapping into a global trend away…
Facebook Tweet Email Link Beauty queen Nadeen Ayoub will become the first woman to represent the Palestinian people at the Miss Universe pageant. The Miss Universe Organization (MUO) said in a statement sent to CNN on Sunday that it was “pleased to confirm” that Ayoub would compete in the Miss Universe 2025 competition, which takes place in November. “The Miss Universe Organization proudly welcomes delegates from across the globe, celebrating diversity, cultural exchange, and the empowerment of women,” the statement reads. “Ms. Ayoub, an accomplished advocate and model from Palestine, embodies the resilience and determination that define our platform,” it…
Facebook Tweet Email Link As protestors have taken to the streets across Spain, disrupted a billionaire’s wedding in Venice, and even caused a shutdown of the Louvre in the shape of a staff mutiny about overcrowding, Noel Josephides has been watching with one phrase on his mind: I told you so. “I could have told you that would happen 10 years ago,” he says. “And I said so. I said, ‘This is going to get out of control.’” Josephides is the longstanding chairman of Sunvil, a UK-based tour operator that has been sending comfortably-off Brits on vacation since 1970. He’s…
Facebook Tweet Email Link Democratic Texas state Rep. Nicole Collier spent the night on the Texas House floor in protest after refusing a Republican demand to be placed under the watch of the state Department of Public Safety. When Texas House Democrats returned to the Capitol in Austin on Monday, after having fled the state earlier this month in order to prevent a vote on a controversial Republican redistricting plan, House Speaker Dustin Burrows put constraints on their movements. Burrows announced that the Democrats could only leave the House floor if they received written permission and agreed to be under…
People living in the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, expressed some relief following Monday’s talks between President Volodymyr Zelensky, US President Donald Trump and other European leaders at the White House. None of the residents speaking with CNN went as far as expressing optimism for a peace deal, given Russian President Vladimir Putin’s maximalist war demands. Kyiv resident Ihor Kharchenko said the result of the Oval Office meeting was “better than it could have been,” adding he was heartened by what he viewed as European and US unity against Russia. “No bad decisions have been made, from what we have heard, for…
Facebook Tweet Email Link Texas Republicans now face a clear path to redraw the state’s congressional maps after state House Democrats ended their 15-day walkout and returned to the Capitol on Monday. In California, meanwhile, Democrats on Monday began work on a series of proposals that would counter the GOP’s Texas map with five more Democratic-leaning districts of their own. Here’s a look at where things stand in the redistricting arms race playing out in the nation’s two largest states: The House is set to reconvene Wednesday, and Republicans are expected to move quickly to approve a new map, which…