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By Lilit Marcus, CNN It is now legal for women — and men — to be topless at beaches on the popular vacation island of Nantucket, off the coast of Massachusetts. Earlier this year, a local-led “Gender Equality on Beaches” campaign proposed a bylaw amendment that would make it legal for anyone of any gender

By Claudia Rebaza, Tara John, Stefano Pozzebon and Hande Atay Alam, CNN Dina Boluarte became Peru’s first female President on Wednesday, capping off a dramatic day which saw her predecessor arrested for the alleged crime of rebellion and impeached by lawmakers. Boluarte, the country’s former vice president, was sworn into the top job at Congress

By Teele Rebane, CNN A widespread state of emergency has been declared across Jamaica to fight violent crime, the island nation’s Prime Minister Andrew Holness said in a public address Wednesday. “All Jamaicans should be able to enjoy the Christmas season free from the threat of violence. We have some really serious criminal threats facing

By Lilit Marcus, CNN The ongoing debate about whether it’s acceptable to recline your seat while traveling has taken a turn in China’s Hunan province after a man was fined for leaning back on a train. Court documents released in November saw officials take a dim view of the March 2022 incident in which a

By Sahar Akbarzai and Emilia Delfino, CNN A court in Argentina on Tuesday sentenced the country’s vice president, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, to six years in prison and disqualified her from holding public office again after finding her guilty of corruption during her earlier terms as President. Fernández de Kirchner has temporary immunity due to

By Kathleen Magramo, CNN The discovery of a giant 100 million-year-old marine reptile’s skeleton in Australia has been hailed by researchers as a breakthrough that may provide vital clues about prehistoric life. The remains of the 6-meter (19 feet) tall juvenile long-necked plesiosaur, also known as an elasmosaur, were found by a trio of amateur

By Pete Muntean, CNN It’s been a week of weird finds for the Transportation Security Administration: A six-pack of nunchucks and other sharp objects — and now a dog in a backpack. “A dog was accidentally sent through the X-ray” at the Dane County Regional Airport in Madison, Wisconsin this week, the TSA said on

By Geneva Sands and Forrest Brown, CNN If you’ve been sweating out that latest deadline for REAL ID required for US air travel, you’re getting another reprieve. The US federal government has yet again delayed nationwide security requirements for driver’s licenses and other identification cards, giving states more time to issue REAL IDs to residents.

By Jessie Yeung, CNN For decades, nobody knew where the remains of the last thylacine, or Tasmanian tiger, were located. It turns out they were hiding in plain sight — at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery (TMAG), in the Australian island state, where they had been unidentified for more than 80 years. About the

By Zoe Sottile, CNN If you’ve seen the astonishing trailer for “Cocaine Bear” making the rounds on Twitter, you might have questions about the film’s claim that it is “inspired by true events.” But the story is indeed based on the true story of a bear who overdosed on cocaine in the 1980s. The film,

By Kareem El Damanhoury and Tara Subramaniam, CNN One passenger was killed and four injured when a “rogue wave” hit their cruise ship during a storm earlier this week. The passengers had been taking an Antarctic cruise aboard the Viking Polaris when it was hit by the storm as it sailed towards Ushuaia, Argentina, late

By Jason Hanna and Melissa Alonso, CNN An Alabama man who rescuers pulled from the Gulf of Mexico hours after he was reported missing from a cruise ship doesn’t know how he wound up in the water, he told ABC. James Michael Grimes, who treaded water for a large part of Thanksgiving Day before he

By Nina dos Santos, CNN China’s plans for a giant new embassy opposite the Tower of London have been unanimously rejected by local councilors on the grounds they pose a security risk to local residents, in a surprise decision that comes amid growing concerns over Beijing’s diplomatic activity in the United Kingdom. The London Borough