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☆ Best travel destinations to visit in 2024
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-01 | by ( Cnn Travel Staff | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +32 min

cdwheatley/iStockphoto/Getty Images Angola: Beyond the capital city of Luanda, pictured, Angola has some jaw-droppingly spectacular scenery and cultural treats. David ChiaFF/Alamy Stock Photo Mérida, Mexico: Yucatán state's capital city showcases a blend of Mayan and colonial heritage. Pavel Tochinsky/The Image Bank RF/Getty Images Morocco: This North African country is home to nine UNESCO sites, including the historic city of Meknes, pictured. Panama City is also the only world capital with a tropical rainforest within its city limits. And a historic city forever entwined with the famed Camino de Santiago.

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☆ Supreme Court won’t resolve case concerning self-appointed ‘tester’ of Americans with Disabilities Act
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-05 | by ( Devan Cole | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

The court decided the case was moot after the plaintiff at the center of the dispute, Deborah Laufer, dropped her lawsuit. We are not convinced, however, that Laufer abandoned her case in an effort to evade our review,” Barrett wrote. Jackson reiterated her concerns about when the court should and should not vacate lower-court rulings when a case becomes moot on appeal. Though the justices weighed that question during oral arguments, they spent a considerable amount of time trying to figure out if they should resolve the issue at all. The defendant’s website, everybody agrees, is now in compliance with the ADA,” liberal Justice Elena Kagan said during oral arguments.

Persons: Deborah Laufer, Acheson Hotels, Amy Coney Barrett, Laufer, ” Barrett, “, Acheson, Clarence Thomas, Ketanji Brown Jackson, Thomas, Jackson, didn’t, Elena Kagan, ”, Samuel Alito, ” Laufer, Adam Unikowsky, John Roberts, hasn’t, Kelsi Corkran, Corkran Organizations: CNN, Acheson Locations: Maine

☆ Lucky Find at Auction Identifies Man on Cover of ‘Led Zeppelin IV’
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-08 | by ( Claire Moses | More About Claire Moses | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

On Nov. 8, 1971, Led Zeppelin released its iconic fourth studio album, which was untitled but is widely known as “Led Zeppelin IV.” It features the band’s major hit “Stairway to Heaven,” and the wordless cover shows the image of a bearded, older man with a large bundle of sticks on his back against the backdrop of a decaying wall. Now, 52 years later to the day, a minor mystery about that cover has been solved. Sometimes thought to be a painting, the image, it turns out, was a Victorian-era photograph of a man who made thatched roofs for cottages in Wiltshire, a rural county in southwestern England. His name was Lot Long and he was 69 at the time, according to Brian Edwards, a researcher who found the photo. As he was looking through a Victorian photo album full of landscapes and houses, Mr. Edwards noticed a photo he had seemingly seen before.

Persons: Lot Long, Brian Edwards, Edwards Organizations: Zeppelin, University of the Locations: Victorian, Wiltshire, England

He went online and made a reservation for a room accessible for people with disabilities. Returning to the front desk, Stramondo learned the room was accessible — for people with hearing loss. Acheson Hotels and the business interests supporting it argue that Laufer's admission that she wasn't planning to visit the hotel should end the case. In the context of disabilities, testers can't sue for money, just to get facilities to change their practices. And the best one that I’ve seen is testers,” Stramondo said.

Persons: Joseph Stramondo, ” Stramondo, Stramondo, Leah Smith, Deborah Laufer, Laufer, Acheson, ”, Karen Harned, Smith, ” Smith Organizations: WASHINGTON, Acheson Hotels, Center for Constitutional, San Diego State University, National Center for Disability Equity Locations: Salt Lake City, Maine, Boston, Wells , Maine, There's

The United States Supreme Court building is seen as in Washington, U.S., October 4, 2023. At issue before the Supreme Court was whether Laufer has such standing. President Joe Biden's administration agreed with the hotel in the case that Laufer does not have standing in the case to sue. "This is, like, dead, dead, dead - in all the ways that something can be dead," Kagan said. A federal judge in Maine threw out the lawsuit, finding Laufer did not have standing, but the Boston-based 1st U.S.

Persons: Evelyn Hockstein, Acheson, Deborah Laufer, Laufer, Elena Kagan, Kelsi Corkran, Brett Kavanaugh, Ketanji Brown Jackson, Jackson, Corkran, Joe Biden's, Samuel Alito, Adam Unikowsky, Kagan, Andrew Chung, Will Dunham Organizations: United States Supreme, REUTERS, Rights, Supreme, Acheson Hotels, Disabilities, Conservative, Liberal, Civil Rights, Circuit, U.S . Chamber, Commerce, Thomson Locations: Washington , U.S, Florida, Maine, Wells , Maine, Boston

☆ The billionaire son of H&M's founder owns a sprawling English country estate with over 100 cottages, a distillery, and a pub that sells his own beer
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-17 | by ( Grace Dean | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Stefan Persson, the son of H&M's founder, owns a 19,000-acre country estate in southern England. In 1997, Persson splurged some of his fortunes on a 3,000-acre country estate in Wiltshire, southern England, which went on to become Ramsbury Estates. Ramsbury Estates has about 7,000 acres of farmland, with a focus on wheat and barley alongside a small herd of cattle. Geography Photos/Universal Images Group via Getty ImagesLike many modern farms, Ramsbury Estates has diversified. Ramsbury Estates declined to comment on exactly what the "agency" portion of its business is comprised of.

Persons: Stefan Persson, H, Persson, Erling Persson, Stefan, Persson splurged Organizations: M's, Service, 101st, Bloomberg, Invest, –, Ramsbury Estates, Getty, Ramsbury, M Locations: England, Wall, Silicon, Sweden, Wiltshire, Ramsbury, Monki

☆ In Detroit, a Tiny Home Generates a Big Controversy
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-04 | by ( Allan Lengel | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The Tiny Homes, as they’re known, were built by a nonprofit group and have marble shower stalls, granite kitchen countertops and solar panels. They are intended for low-income residents who pay monthly rent of $1 per square foot, plus electricity, with the option to own the home outright after seven years. To date, there are 25 in a three-block area, occupied by residents that include seniors and people formerly homeless and incarcerated, and who earn as little as $7,000 annually. The first set opened in 2017, and construction is slated to begin this fall on a half dozen or so houses on a patch of empty land nearby. The project, which is owned and operated by Cass Community Social Services of Detroit, has been built through fund-raising from foundations and private donors, including rocker Jon Bon Jovi.

Persons: Jon Bon Jovi Organizations: Cass Community Social Services of Locations: Cass Community Social Services of Detroit

☆ Opinion | Two Languages Walk Into a Bar
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-29 | by ( John Mcwhorter | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

I encountered another variation on this theme during my annual stay at a Jewish summer bungalow colony. The colony’s social director introduced himself with a song, set to a klezmer-like tune, in one stanza of which he sang about how his parents and older relatives hated that he had decided to become a social director. A social director! A social director! Don’t tell us our boy is a social director!

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☆ Savoring Summer’s End at 5 Country Getaways
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-25 | by ( Stephanie Rosenbloom | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Shuttered in 2018, it reopened this year after a renovation that included new buildings and a new name. You can choose from 67 rooms, four of which are restored cottages dating to the early 1900s. There are new guest rooms, each with a patio, terrace or sun porch, situated in structures called Guest Houses. Also new is the two-bedroom Courtyard cottage with a living room and private outdoor space where you can end the day beside an outdoor fireplace or in a hot tub. The Homestead cottage has two bedrooms and private outdoor space as well.

Persons: Felix Locations: Olivos, Calif, Santa Ynez

☆ Many Maui restaurants were destroyed in the fires. For those that survived, their future remains uncertain
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-23 | by ( Danielle Wiener-Bronner | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

An aerial view of destruction on Front Street on August 11, 2023 in Lahaina, Hawaii. In Lahaina, a historic area and popular tourist destination that was hit particularly hard by the fires, restaurants are big business. Restaurants are an important part of the tourism sector, which is responsible for 75% of all private-sector jobs in Maui. Their restaurants survived, but their future is uncertain. In Kula, about an hour’s drive from Lahaina, fires damaged the Kula Sandalwoods Inn & Cafe, which has been in Monica Loui’s family for decades.

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In a month spent at the front line, Aleksandr, an ex-convict serving in the Russian Army, hadn’t seen a single Ukrainian soldier and had barely fired a shot. He said he had watched dogs gnaw at the uncollected corpses of his dead comrades, drunk rain water and scavenged garbage dumps for food. Aleksandr claims that out of the 120 men in his unit, only about 40 remain alive. “We are being sent to a slaughter,” Aleksandr said in a series of audio messages from the Kherson region, referring to his commanders. “We are not human to them, because we are criminals.”

Persons: Aleksandr, hadn’t, ” Aleksandr, ” Organizations: Russian Army, The New York Times Locations: Ukrainian, Ukraine, Kherson

☆ The royal residence you might soon be able to rent
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-11 | by ( Amarachi Orie | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

A version of this story appeared in the August 11 edition of CNN’s Royal News, a weekly dispatch bringing you the inside track on Britain’s royal family. London CNN —Buckingham Palace, Windsor Castle or Balmoral might be the first places that come to mind when you think of British royal family homes. Therefore, it is likely the royal lodging will also be let out commercially. It’s where the then-prince retreated after his father, Prince Philip, died in 2021, according to British media reports at the time. The wider Carmarthenshire area has stunning castles, plush gardens, Wales’ largest beach and market towns full of local produce.

Persons: King Charles III’s, Llwynywermod, King, Prince of Wales, Prince William, Prince Philip, ” Charles, William Williams, Queen Anne Boleyn, Mark Bauer, Albertine Organizations: CNN’s Royal, London CNN, British, It’s, BBC, Brecon Beacons, Universal Locations: London, Buckingham, Windsor Castle, Balmoral, Brecon, Welsh, Carmarthenshire, Llwynywermod, Duchy, Cornwall, Wales, –, Cockit, Myddfai

☆ Old Saybrook, Conn.: A Quiet Shoreline Town With Relatively Low Taxes
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-02 | by ( Lisa Prevost | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The year-round population of roughly 10,000 skews older, with a median age of 52, compared with the statewide median of 41. “It’s a place where middle-class people built cottages generations ago and left them to their kids,” said Bart Gullong, 75, who grew up in Old Saybrook, as did his father. And as people retire, they live in them year-round.”The broad avenue that is Main Street is lined with restaurants, shops and specialty markets. Big-box stores and car dealerships dot Route 1, which cuts east-west through town. Residents pay taxes to the town and the borough, which strictly monitors changes to properties in its historic district and limits the times when construction and yard maintenance may be done.

Persons: “, ”, Bart Gullong, Fenwick Locations: Old Saybrook, Saybrook, Fenwick

☆ What it was like to live at the Los Alamos lab site during the Manhattan Project
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-25 | by ( Jenny Mcgrath | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +14 min

Los Alamos National LaboratorySituated 7,300 feet above sea level and roughly 35 miles from Santa Fe, the Los Alamos site seemed ideal for a secret laboratory. Constant constructionCompared to the Chicago labs, where some of the work on the Manhattan Project was being done, Los Alamos was starting from scratch. The commissary is where many Los Alamos residents did most of their grocery shopping during the Manhattan Project. Mary Palvesky is the daughter of Harry Palevsky and Elaine Sammel, who both worked at Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project. After the US dropped the bombs, the site became the Los Alamos National Laboratory.

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☆ Royal destinations you need to visit in the UK
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-07 | by ( Amy Woodyatt | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

A version of this story appeared in the July 7 edition of CNN’s Royal News, a weekly dispatch bringing you the inside track on Britain’s royal family. Research in 2011 by Visit Britain found that around 60% of tourists to the UK are likely to visit places associated with the royal family, according to Ross Bennett-Cook, a visiting lecturer at the School of Architecture and Cities at London’s University of Westminster. While there is no more recent data on royal sites specifically, in 2022 Visit Britain found that history and heritage were the biggest pull factors for tourists. Peter Titmuss/UCG/Universal Images Group/Getty ImagesCornwall: Dear to local and international tourists alike, Cornwall, on the southwestern tip of the UK pointing out into the Atlantic Ocean, is also a special destination for the royal family. The medieval parish church of St Mary Magdalene is regularly used as a place of worship by members of the royal family and dates back to the 16th-century.

Persons: Ross Bennett, Cook, we’ve, Queen Elizabeth II, King Charles III, William the, Edward III, Prince Harry, Prince Philip, Peter Titmuss, Duke of Cornwall, Prince William, Mary Magdalene, Bauer, Griffin, Queen, King George VI, Queen Victoria . Prince Albert, Queen Victoria, Andrew Milligan, Prince Albert, daytrippers, Mary Queen of Scots, It’s, Peter Byrne, King Charles, Prince of Wales, Work, wasn’t, King Edward I, Wales, Edward II, Tim Rooke, King George IV, Albert, There’s, shouldn’t Organizations: CNN’s Royal, CNN, Wimbledon, School of Architecture, London’s University of Westminster, Guard, Getty, Radcliffe, Sandringham, Sandringham House, Queen, Highlands, Scottish, Caernarfon, Royal Palaces Locations: Europe, London, Windsor, St, George’s, Duchy, Cornwall, Lostwithiel, UK, British, England, Scilly, Sandringham, Norfolk, Royal Parkland, Scotland, Cairns, Edinburgh, Holyroodhouse, Scottish, Caernarfon, Wales, Menai, Anglesey, Prince, Hillsborough, Northern Ireland, Brighton, Isle of Wight, Osborne

☆ In 7 Great Cities, 7 Great Walks
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-19 | by ( Christine Chitnis | The New York Times | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +32 min

Urban Walks In 7 Great Cities, 7 Great Walks The pleasures of strolling through an urban landscape are manifest. Credit... Joann Pai for The New York Times Its organically styled bouquets feel as though they’ve been freshly picked from the garden. Credit... Joann Pai for The New York Times Image Astier de Villatte specializes in antiques and tableware. Three quarters of a mile into the walk, you’ll be standing atop the first of three mountains, the 1,100-foot-high Inwangsan. Credit... Petrina Tinslay for The New York Times Few cities are so abundant with forest-like parks, coastal walks and beaches as Sydney, which is best explored on foot.

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☆ Luciano Spalletti and the Power of Walking Away
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-16 | by ( Rory Smith | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Luciano Spalletti’s farm sits high on a ridge outside Montaione, a peaceful, strikingly pretty Italian village set on a hilltop an hour or so southwest of Florence. It is picture-perfect Tuscany: cobbled piazzas lined with cafes; echoing, cobbled streets; a panorama of deep blue skies and verdant olive groves on rolling hills. The stretch of the Tuscan countryside Spalletti calls home is not quite so well-touristed as, say, Chianti. But Spalletti grew up here, in the medieval walled city of Certaldo, and he saw in the farm the chance to draw more people to the region. The view stretches all the way from Pisa, in the west, to the Apennines in the east.

Persons: Luciano, Spalletti Locations: Montaione, Florence, Tuscany, Certaldo, Pisa

☆ Chief Justice John Roberts listed two vacation homes on two different continents in his real estate income disclosures while Elena Kagan listed a parking spot in DC
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-11 | by ( Kelly Mclaughlin | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Chief Justice Roberts' report revealed he rented out properties in Ireland and Maine. A report for Justice Elena Kagan revealed she rented out a parking spot in Washington, DC. Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Elena Kagan both earned extra income by renting out properties — though the properties are vastly different. According to Roberts' report, shared online by SCOTUSblog, Roberts rented out cottages in Ireland's Limerick County and Maine's Knox County. Kagan, meanwhile, rented out a parking space at a building in Washington, DC, according to her report, also shared by SCOTUSblog.

Persons: Justice Roberts, Elena Kagan, —, John Roberts, Roberts, Kagan, Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Sotomayor, Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Thomas, Alito, Harlan Crow Organizations: Supreme, Service, SCOTUSblog, NPR Locations: Ireland, Maine, Washington ,, Ireland's Limerick County, Maine's Knox County, Washington , DC, New York

☆ Finland is consistently ranked the happiest country on earth. For Finns, it's an eye-roller.
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-10 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

Finland's high levels of social trust could be one reason the country has been ranked as the world's happiest for six years in a row. Finns don't view themselves as exceptionally happy people. A busy street in Helsinki, Finland. In 2021, the Nordic country spent 24% of its GDP on social protection — the highest of any other OECD country that year. 'We have problems as well'As fun as such ratings can be to share and debate, they of course obscure the challenges experienced in any country, even Finland.

Persons: Frank Martela, they've, Jennifer De Paola, De Paola's, Jimenez, you'll, We're, Meri Larivaara, it's, De Paola, ALESSANDRO RAMPAZZO, Martela, Larivaara, Eric, Susanna Nordvall, who's, De Organizations: Aalto University, De, Heli Jimenez, United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions, Gallup, Getty, Nordic, OECD, Healthcare, Mental Health Locations: Espoo, Finland's, Helsinki, Finland, AFP, Japan, Italy, Finnish

☆ Croatia's little-visited coastline above Dubrovnik
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-05 | by ( Mary Novakovich | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

There’s even Kornati National Park, one of Croatia’s most compelling natural spaces, spread over 89 islands. Meanwhile, Trogir – whose old town occupies its own little island – is a magical place protected by UNESCO World Heritage status. In just one square within the walled old town you’ll be immersed in centuries of history. Primošten’s old town is on its own little island connected to the newer town by a causeway. Look out for a little promontory just to the north of the old town, where you’ll see pebbly beaches backed by pine trees.

Persons: Trogir, Anastasia, Danny Lehman, –, you’ll, Trg, Mary’s, Boonchet, Nikola Bašić, you’ve, Nin, Veli, it’s, Anton Petrus, there’s, Jakov, Ivan Coric, You’ll, George, Andrey Omelyanchuk, Mary Novakovich, “ Organizations: CNN, Dalmatia, UNESCO World, Kolovare, Getty, Yugoslav, UNESCO Locations: Split, Dubrovnik, Croatian, Croatia’s, Zadar, Trogir, You’ll, Šibenik, Zadar's, Donat’s, St, Mary’s, you’re, Kolovare, Bibinje, Nin, –, Sakarun, Dugi, Murter, Sibenik's, Lawrence’s, Krka, Skradin, Primošten, Čiovo, Riva

☆ Meet a 24-year-old who realized corporate life wasn't for her. She now makes $58,000 as an innkeeper, has her rent subsidized, and has plenty of time to paddle board on the lake.
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-17 | by ( Madison Hoff | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

She likes interacting with guests and is happy she didn't end up in a corporate job. "I was looking for a corporate job just because that's what everybody in my life who didn't go to grad school did," she said. She told Insider she makes around $58,000 and part of her rent is covered, as she has employee subsidized housing. Are you a Gen Zer or recent graduate who found a job outside of a 9-to-5 corporate job? Are you a worker that left a corporate job?

☆ This couple quit city life to take up a dream job as caretakers of a remote Irish island
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-13 | by ( Ryan Hogg | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

A couple quit their jobs in London to become caretakers of a remote Irish island. Dan Regan and Emily Campbell run a coffee shop and cottages on Great Blasket Island. At the start of April, Emily Campbell and her husband Dan Regan became caretakers of Great Blasket Island, a 1,100-acre island off the West coast of Ireland. With no running water or electricity, and sometimes difficult visitors, they've faced a steep learning curve. They do all these tasks on an island with no hot running water or conventional electricity.

☆ New York Is Full of Empty Offices After Covid. Make Way for the Playground City. - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-10 | by ( Edward L. Glaeser | Carlo Ratti | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +20 min

We are witnessing the dawn of a new kind of urban area: the Playground City. The transformation toward the Playground City will not happen on its own. To draw people into the Playground City, we need to show, not tell. 6.Engage citizensGovernments should empower citizens to participate directly in making the Playground City. The Playground City sees people as both a means and an end, and it should involve them in the process of its creation.

☆ In Norway, the Electric Vehicle Future Has Already Arrived
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-08 | by ( Jack Ewing | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

BAMBLE, Norway — About 110 miles south of Oslo, along a highway lined with pine and birch trees, a shiny fueling station offers a glimpse of a future where electric vehicles rule. Chargers far outnumber gasoline pumps at the service area operated by Circle K, a retail chain that got its start in Texas. During summer weekends, when Oslo residents flee to country cottages, the line to recharge sometimes backs up down the off-ramp. Last year, 80 percent of new-car sales in Norway were electric, putting the country at the vanguard of the shift to battery-powered mobility. It has also turned Norway into an observatory for figuring out what the electric vehicle revolution might mean for the environment, workers and life in general.

☆ $2.7 Million Homes in California
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-01 | by ( Angela Serratore | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The golf courses of Pebble Beach and the beach are about a 10-minute drive. The property is about 15 minutes from the luxury hotels, boutiques and restaurants along Cannery Row, in the heart of Monterey. To the right, through an arched doorway, is a living room with hardwood floors, front-facing casement windows, a stone fireplace and a staircase to the second floor. The hardwood floors continue through another arched opening, into a dining room with a wrought-iron chandelier. The kitchen, off the dining room, has stainless steel appliances and a door to the back patio.

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