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By Jacqui Palumbo, CNN Chicago (CNN) — In a grassy outcrop along Lake Michigan’s deep blue waters, two young men pictured in a color slide photograph relax on towels, shirtless and curled against each other. Along the rocky ledges, other men chat and sunbathe, bicycles and shoes abandoned on the ground. A vintage Cherry Coke

By Helen Regan and Kocha Olarn, CNN (CNN) — Three years since Thailand became the first country in Asia to decriminalize cannabis, the government this week imposed new rules designed to rein in the country’s “green rush.” As of Thursday, customers need a doctor’s prescription to buy cannabis — effectively restricting consumption of the plant

By Maureen O’Hare, CNN (CNN) — In travel news this week: how to get the Italian lifestyle when you don’t have a billionaire’s budget, plus we reveal CNN’s pick of America’s Best Towns to Visit in 2025. Only 10 made our list: Did somewhere near you make the cut? La Dolce Vita Money can’t buy

By Leah Dolan, Jacqui Palumbo and Sharon Braithwaite, CNN Venice, Italy (CNN) — It’s been both the most public and secretive wedding of the year. Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez concluded their three-day-long Venetian extravaganza on Saturday evening with a celebration at the Arsenale, a former medieval shipyard. The pair was seen traveling via boat

By Fiona Sinclair Scott and Jacqui Palumbo, CNN (CNN) — After much anticipation, Lauren Sanchez’s wedding gown has been revealed, with Dolce & Gabbana confirmed as the fashion house behind the elegant, high-necked design featuring 180 silk chiffon-covered priest buttons. Many details surrounding the Bezos-Sanchez wedding extravaganza have been closely guarded and, in keeping with

CNN Travel (CNN) — America’s most interesting towns bring together the best of a beautiful country. Surrounded by stunning landscapes, packed with entrepreneurial talent and evolving with the tastes of the people who settle and explore them, these destinations show off what makes the United States so distinctive. For our second annual list of America’s

By Francesca Street, CNN (CNN) — Catherine Tondelli was standing underneath the Trevi Fountain, on a summer’s evening in Rome, about to throw three coins into the fountain’s waters. Growing up in the US, Catherine had seen romance movies set in Italy. She’d read books about Rome. She’d heard the city’s famous fountain was impressive.

Oscar Holland, CNN (CNN) — By today’s standards, the front cover of American Vogue’s November 1988 edition seems typical enough. Beside the text “the real cost of looking good,” Israeli model Michaela Bercu gazes past the camera, her windswept hair brushing across the shoulders of a bejeweled $10,000 Christian Lacroix couture jacket. Yet, the cover

CNN By Mike Valerio, Yoonjung Seo, and Gawon Bae, CNN Seoul (CNN) — Kim Jong Un personally cut the ribbon on a new resort hailed by state media as a “national treasure-level tourism city” — a lavish seaside development set against what human rights observers describe as stark realities of hunger and hardship across North

By Mike Valerio, Yoonjung Seo, and Gawon Bae, CNN Seoul (CNN) — Kim Jong Un personally cut the ribbon on a new resort hailed by state media as a “national treasure-level tourism city” — a lavish seaside development set against what human rights observers describe as stark realities of hunger and hardship across North Korea.

By Jacqui Palumbo and Oscar Holland, CNN (CNN) — After nearly four decades as the editor-in-chief of American Vogue, Anna Wintour is stepping down and seeking a replacement. Wintour broke the news to staffers on Thursday. Although she’ll exit the US edition’s top role, she is not leaving Condé Nast or Vogue altogether, but scaling

By Jacqui Palumbo, Barbie Latza Nadeau and Fiona Sinclair Scott, CNN Venice, Italy (CNN) — Lauren Sanchez and Jeff Bezos have made it onto the Venetian island of San Giorgio Maggiore, where they will celebrate their marriage on Friday evening. Hours ahead of the expected ceremony, the bride traveled to the island by water taxi.