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Facebook Tweet Email Link Atlantic City, NJ  —  Almost every passenger carries lithium-ion batteries onto airplanes – in their phones, laptops, rechargeable powerpacks and even vapes. And when something goes wrong with one of them, Federal Aviation Administration tests show the results can be catastrophic. Delta Air Lines Flight 1334 was flying from Atlanta to Fort Lauderdale last month when smoke and flames started pouring out of a backpack. The pilots declared an emergency and diverted to Fort Meyers where the 191 people onboard safely evacuated. The culprit was a passenger’s personal lithium-ion battery pack, which had been tucked away…

Facebook Tweet Email Link Robert Hill called in sick to work when he heard about what was happening in his Bethesda, Maryland. Every major cable news network was broadcasting from a house just a few streets away, but Hill had to see it for himself. When he got to the street where President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser John Bolton lives, Hill pulled out his phone to record video of the scene along with other neighborhood gawkers. Cars parked in the grass lined the narrow two-lane road. Directly across from Bolton’s home, there was a wall of TV news…

Facebook Tweet Email Link Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine  —  Three meters underground, a network of tunnels and trenches fortified with timber provides a safer spot for frontline fighters to rest and recuperate – and a deeper position to defend against a potential Russian advance into Zaporizhzhia in southeastern Ukraine. Down here in the dirt, it feels far from the capital Kyiv, and light years away from the United States – where a dramatic flurry of diplomatic activity in the past week means little to those on the battlefield. “We want to believe the war will end, but it doesn’t feel likely anytime…

Facebook Tweet Email Link Sign up for Unlocking the World, CNN Travel’s weekly newsletter. Get news about destinations, plus the latest in aviation, food and drink, and where to stay. In travel news this week: airlines sued for selling windowless “window seats,” venomous sea slugs close down a beach in Spain, plus why US influencers are flocking to Taliban-controlled Afghanistan. “Bare beating”: so amusing in name, so annoying in practice. We reported back in May on “bare beating,” the growing trend of playing music or video out loud on public transport. A backlash was underway, with an opposition political party…

Facebook Tweet Email Link For Ukraine, history is a battlefield. Months before Russian President Vladimir Putin launched his full-scale invasion, he published a brooding, 5,000-word article that made the case for dismantling the country; in his speech to mark the start of Russia’s offensive he reeled off a litany of historical grievances against the West; and months into the war, he cast himself as the successor to Russia’s modernizing tsar Peter the Great. History lessons are now haunting Ukraine again. As US President Donald Trump pushes for a negotiated end to the war there, politicians and pundits are searching for…

Facebook Tweet Email Link Reuters  —  The British government on Friday extended the deadline until October to decide on whether to approve China’s plans to build the largest embassy in Europe in London after Beijing refused to fully explain why the plans contained blacked out areas. China’s plans to build a new embassy on the site of a two-century-old building near the Tower of London have stalled for the past three years because of opposition from local residents, lawmakers, and Hong Kong pro-democracy campaigners in Britain. Politicians in Britain and the U.S. have warned the government against allowing China to…

Facebook Tweet Email Link When Ethan lost $11,000 on a single hockey game this past March, it was the last straw. Ethan, who declined to share his last name out of fear of losing his job, bet “the spread’” on a Hurricanes-Flames hockey game. That means a team doesn’t just need to win – they must win by more than a certain number of points. The Hurricanes did come out on top – but by only one point, not the two-plus Ethan needed. Ethan, 27, broke down and cried in front of his girlfriend. He couldn’t do it anymore. What…

Facebook Tweet Email Link Lori Anne Porter, 11, watches “KPop Demon Hunters” almost every day. She estimates she’s seen it upwards of 50 times. She also evangelizes. “My sister had a sleepover, and she got to pick a movie to watch and she chose ‘Kpop Demon Hunters’ and she made all her friends at the party who haven’t watched it watch it,” Porter said. “It was so fun because they were like, ‘This is gonna be so bad,’ and then they watched and they were like, ‘Yeah, it’s pretty good.’” “KPop Demon Hunters” is the animated Netflix superhit that’s on…

Facebook Tweet Email Link EDITOR’S NOTE:  Analysis by Leah M. Wright, a CNN political historian and an associate professor of history at the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University. “American Prince: JFK Jr.” is airing now on CNN. It’s been 65 years since John F. Kennedy first spoke of America’s “New Frontier.” This was his rallying cry for the nation, urging citizens to be bold and courageous in their vision for solutions for not just the US but also the world’s most pressing problems. “It would be easier to shrink from that New Frontier, to look to the safe…

Facebook Tweet Email Link Irish folk band The Mary Wallopers say they were muted at a music festival in Portsmouth, England on Friday for displaying a Palestinian flag during their set, something denied by organizers. “Just got cut off at Victorious festival for having a Palestinian flag on the stage,” the band said in a post on Instagram. “We’ve been doing this for six years now and this has never happened before.” “Free Palestine all day every day.” The festival organizers denied the band’s account, saying event management had cut the sound after the band “used a chant which is…