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Every summer, Cheryl travels to Iowa, from her home in St Kitts. She rents a three-bedroom house for her and her US-based adult children. She usually rents a car, too, and the family go out for dinners and explore local attractions. Cheryl typically spends $10,000 on the trip.Not this year.The Trump administration’s high-profile deportations and detentions at the border mean Cheryl, who is originally from Canada, will not be coming to the US. She’s another victim of Donald Trump’s hardline stance, and a symbol of a travel and tourism industry expected to miss out on billions of dollars this year…
The couple and their three children have lived in the United States since 2022 under temporary protected status.US Supreme Court temporarily halts deportations of Venezuelan migrantsThe U.S. Supreme Court paused President Donald Trump’s administration from deporting Venezuelan men in immigration custody.A federal judge in Texas ruled against deporting Venezuelan immigrants, finding it inappropriate for President Donald Trump to invoke the 1798 wartime law, the Alien Enemies Act.U.S. District Judge David Briones, of El Paso, made the ruling on April 25, and ordered the release of Julio Cesar Sanchez Puentes and Luddis Norelia Sanchez Garcia from a federal detention facility in…
When screenwriter David Scarpa visits the great Hollywood studios these days, he is struck by what is missing. “It used to be you’d walk around those back lots and you’d see many people and they were very busy,” Scarpa muses. “They were like small cities. Now often you’ll walk around and have nobody else there. It feels empty. You definitely feel the absence of life on those lots.”Like the once proud industrial factories of the midwest, the dream factories of southern California are in decline. Last year was the worst for on-location filming in Los Angeles since tracking began 30…
Pope Francis requested a simple funeral in his willPope Francis requested a “simple” funeral in his will, reflecting a legacy devoted to humility.Before he became Pope Francis, Jorge Mario Bergoglio was the archbishop of his hometown Buenos Aires.On April 26, Argentina’s capital city held an outdoor Mass remembering their humble priest after his official funeral in Rome, some 6,900 miles away across the Atlantic Ocean.Thousands took to the streets in front of the Metropolitan Cathedral of Buenos Aires, which stands along the central Plaza de Mayo near the Casa Rosada presidential palace.Francis, who came from a middle-class neighborhood in Buenos…
Get inspired by a weekly roundup on living well, made simple. Sign up for CNN’s Life, But Better newsletter for information and tools designed to improve your well-being. CNN — Gwyneth Paltrow says she has moved away from her yearslong strict Paleo diet and is venturing back into carbs and cheese. Speaking on “The Goop Podcast,” released Tuesday, the 52-year-old actress and founder of lifestyle brand Goop said “longer-term inflammation and health stuff” was the reason she and her husband, Brad Falchuk, “became Paleo a few years ago.” She had previously told her podcast listeners that she had genes APOE3 and…
CNN — The funeral of Pope Francis gave Catholics across the globe the chance to bid farewell to a beloved pontiff – and for world leaders to rub shoulders at a fraught time for international diplomacy. More than 250,000 people packed into St. Peter’s Square for Saturday’s service, the Vatican said, with members of the public there to mourn along with 55 heads of state. The day’s most extraordinary meeting came just minutes before the service began. Presidents Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky held what American and Ukrainian officials described as a “productive” discussion in St. Peter’s Basilica, as Francis’…
EK was completing a take-home exam on 6 March when the dean of student conduct at Swarthmore College emailed her about an urgent Zoom meeting. On the video call, she said, the dean told her that she would be suspended for one semester for staging a protest at the college’s trustees’ dinner in December 2023. Using a bullhorn, EK had interrupted the event to demand that the school divest from products that fuel Israel’s war on Gaza.A panel of students and school employees had found her responsible for assault, among other code of conduct violations for the incident. EK, a…
NFL Draft: Sanders falls out of Round 1, Jags take Travis Hunter at No. 2USA TODAY Sports’ Mackenzie Salmon breaks down the biggest storylines from Round 1 of the 2025 NFL Draft.Sports PulseThe NFL dream of Shedeur Sanders began with a bit of a nightmare. The son of Hall of Famer Deion Sanders had to wait until the third day of the 2025 draft to hear his name called from the stage in Green Bay, Wisconsin, which finally happened when the Cleveland Browns selected him with the sixth pick of the fifth round (144th overall), making him the sixth quarterback taken…
CNN — On marathon day, the air thrums with emotion. Tune into any frequency and you will find it – elation, anxiety, exhaustion, pain, pride, awe, pathos. More than 56,000 runners will line up on the start line of the London Marathon on Sunday, each one with a different reason for being there. Many find that motivation in running for the charities which have helped them or their loved ones during the darkest times in their lives – the London Marathon has raised over £1.3 billion ($1.7 billion) since its inception. Others find it by using running to control their…
CNN — Sign up for CNN’s Eat, But Better: Mediterranean Style. Our eight-part guide shows you a delicious expert-backed eating lifestyle that will boost your health for life. Peek inside Jackie Akerberg’s refrigerator and you’ll see a rainbow-hued array of fresh fruits and vegetables, all washed, dried and transferred to glass food storage containers. They’re about to get featured in the bountiful bowls and salads that have become her signature on her Jackfruitful Kitchen Instagram account. But the real MVP of this recipe developer’s kitchen is actually the palest thing you’ll find in that fridge: tofu. Protein is what people ask…