By Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN Rome (CNN) — Legend has it that tossing a coin into Rome’s Trevi Fountain guarantees a return to the Eternal City. Two coins promise love with an Italian. Three, marrying an Italian. As of February 2, however, making any of those wishes comes with a price. Visitors now need to
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By Leah Dolan, CNN (CNN) — Does bad taste make for good fashion? At the 2026 Grammy Awards, several celebrities opted for clothes that were a little odd and a little ugly. Arguably they were also the most memorable. Amid some of the more conventionally tasteful outfits — see Hailey Bieber in a black strapless
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By David G. Allan, CNN Cocoa Beach, Florida (CNN) — Cape Canaveral is no dusty history tour, despite the consecrated status this oceanside resort area holds as the birthplace of American spaceflight. The Space Coast, as it’s often called, is not just where this bold era of science began, with multiple museums to document it.
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By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN (CNN) — Bad Bunny and Kendrick Lamar, two artists unafraid to hold a mirror up to America through their music and performances, dominated the Grammy Awards on Sunday night. Bad Bunny made history when he won album of the year for “Debí Tirar Más Fotos (I Should Have Taken More Photos)”
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By Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — True to her inimitable fashion, this year’s Big Game might end up being all about Cardi B. The “Bodak Yellow” rapper – who just this past weekend performed in Studio 8H as the musical guest for the 1000th episode of “Saturday Night Live” – has many believing that
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By Gawon Bae, CNN Seoul (CNN) — “We’re goin’ up, up, up, it’s our moment,” proclaim virtual girl band Huntr/x in their hit song “Golden.” And the lyrics couldn’t have been more apt as the song from Netflix megahit “Kpop Demon Hunters” made history on Sunday by claiming K-Pop’s first-ever Grammy. “Golden” was already a
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CBS, RECORDING ACADEMY, CNN, CBS/Recording Academy By Gawon Bae, CNN Seoul (CNN) — “We’re goin’ up, up, up, it’s our moment,” proclaim virtual girl band Huntr/x in their hit song “Golden.” And the lyrics couldn’t have been more apt as the song from Netflix megahit “Kpop Demon Hunters” made history on Sunday by claiming K-Pop’s
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CNN By Alexandra Banner, CNN Happy Groundhog Day! Punxsutawney Phil will emerge from his burrow today to predict whether we’re in for an early spring or six more weeks of winter. But take it lightly — the famed rodent is only right about 40% of the time. Here’s what else you need to know to
Continue Reading By Sandra Gonzalez, Alli Rosenbloom, CNN (CNN) — One week before he’s set to headline the Super Bowl LX halftime show and on a night when he made Grammys history, Bad Bunny used his time on stage to deliver a pointed political message that protested the recent actions of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Accepting the
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By Oscar Holland and Stephy Chung, CNN; Photo editor: Jennifer Arnow, CNN (CNN) — The music industry’s red carpets are usually bolder, brighter and more adventurous than their Hollywood counterparts. And they don’t get bigger than the Grammys — the awards ceremony that brought you Michael Jackson’s bedazzled military jacket, Pharrell Williams’ oversized hat and
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By Dan Heching, CNN (CNN) — It was a history-making night at the Grammy Awards. This year’s Super Bowl halftime performer Bad Bunny took home album of the year for “Debí Tirar Más Fotos (I Should Have Taken More Photos),” which became the first-ever Spanish-language album to nab the top prize. Amidst an effusive and
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By Lily Hautau, CNN (CNN) — NASA’s Artemis II mission is set to launch as early as February 8, putting human spaceflight to the moon back in the spotlight after a 50-plus year hiatus. In celebration of our IRL return to the drama and wonder of space, we asked 11 astronauts to share their favorite
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By Jacqui Palumbo, CNN (CNN) — A funerary portrait from Roman Egypt, featuring a strikingly modern-looking male subject with piercing hazel eyes and graying hair, sold for more than double its high estimate on Thursday during Sotheby’s Masters Week sales in New York. The painting, which brought in $889,000 with fees, is one of 900
Continue Reading By Lilit Marcus, CNN (CNN) — This week in travel news: Australian travelers descended on an imaginary tourist attraction, a woman recalls the night she unexpectedly bunked with a pair of traveling nuns, and the turning point for REAL ID has arrived. Getting into hot water Hundreds of tourists are flocking to hot springs in
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By Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN (CNN) — For more than a decade, images of Santa Maddalena, a small village church in northern Italy framed by jagged peaks of the Dolomite Mountains, have circulated online. But locals say it was last summer that the steady stream of visitors became a flood. Now, authorities are stepping in
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CNN By Dan Heching, Miriam Elder, Sandra Gonzalez, CNN (CNN) — Catherine O’Hara, the radiant actress whose singular comedic delivery helped elevate movies and TV shows like “Beetlejuice,” “Home Alone” and “Schitt’s Creek” to cult classic status, has died. She was 71. A statement from CAA, the agency that represented O’Hara, said the actress died
Continue Reading By Dan Heching, Miriam Elder, Sandra Gonzalez, CNN (CNN) — Catherine O’Hara, the radiant actress whose singular comedic delivery helped elevate movies and TV shows like “Beetlejuice,” “Home Alone” and “Schitt’s Creek” to cult classic status, has died. She was 71. A statement from CAA, the agency that represented O’Hara, said the actress died Friday
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By Amarachi Orie, CNN (CNN) — HBO has announced new cast members for season 4 of its hit drama “The White Lotus,” with Helena Bonham Carter and Chris Messina among the next wave of guests checking in to the luxury — and usually deadly — resort chain. “The next round of bookings has begun in
Continue Reading By Rachel Tashjian, CNN Paris (CNN) — “The rest of the year is for reality,” said Daniel Roseberry, the creative director of what is perhaps Paris’s most eccentric couture house, Schiaparelli, minutes after his latest collection, featuring a densely feathered jacket with foot-high soaring wings for a collar, was unveiled. Paris Couture Week, which the
Continue Reading By Francesca Street, CNN (CNN) — Peering out the Greyhound bus window, Diann Droste saw the snow coming down fast and thick. “I remember I was looking out the window and thinking, ‘I don’t know that this is good,’” Diann tells CNN Travel today. “I started to see cars in the ditches, and then I
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