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This Montana town’s top-notch food and world-class wilderness make it a must-visit America’s Best Towns to Visit 12 videos This Montana town’s top-notch food and world-class wilderness make it a must-visit 02:36 Now playing – Source: CNN Your grilled hot dog skills are mediocre without these 2 tips from Tyler Florence 01:02 Now playing – Source: CNN Months after Hurricane Helene, this mountain town is on the rebound 02:30 Now playing – Source: CNN Watch ‘Somebody Feed Phil’ at the Food & Wine Classic in Aspen 02:24 Now playing – Source: CNN See why this town’s Pride celebration is a…

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Voting is open for the 2025 Travvy Awards, TravelPulse and AGENTatHOME’s awards voted upon by you, the travel advisor community! The Travvys recognize the best hotels and resorts, the best destinations, the best cruise lines and ships and much more. The eleventh annual Travvy Awards will be held at Greater Fort Lauderdale’s Broward County Convention Center on November 6.  The nominees for the best destinations in their categories are listed below. Don’t forget to vote for your favorites before September 5! Best All-Inclusive Adult/Couples Resort—CaribbeanBreathless Punta CanaCayo Levantado ResortHermitage Bay AntiguaSanctuary Cap CanaRoyalton CHIC AntiguaSandals Grande St. LucianSandals Saint VincentSecrets Wild Orchid…

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Meta recently released a new video editing app for creators called Edits. The new app is designed to rival ByteDance’s CapCut, a popular short-form video-editing app used by many creators.  Meta first shared that it was working on Edits back in January after ByteDance-owned CapCut was removed from U.S. app stores when the TikTok ban momentarily went into effect. Although the app has since come back online and is available to download, TikTok’s future in the U.S. remains uncertain, so Meta is ready to capitalize on CapCut’s possible absence in the future with its new Edits app. We’ve created this…

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In commemoration of its 130th year in business, HX Expeditions unveiled “Sell 3 – Sale for Free,” which it said is the largest incentive it has ever offered travel advisors.Advisors who make three new deposited bookings on select HX Expeditions’ itineraries between July 1 and October 31, 2025, “will earn the chance to sail for free – with a guest – on one of HX’s extraordinary 2026 voyages,” HX Expeditions said. In all, 65 staterooms accommodating two adults will be awarded to advisors on a first-come first-service basis, on itineraries of up to 12 nights. Flights are not included.The incentive…

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A former SpaceX security manager, who was privy to top secret information on U.S. government programs, is suing the company and one of its senior employees for alleged discrimination, sexual harassment, and retaliation.  Jenna Shumway, who was promoted to senior contractor program security officer after being hired in 2022, also alleges the senior employee — Daniel Collins, a former Defense Department official hired to run security compliance for the company’s government work — violated top secret protocols and then concealed this information from the government.  Lawyers for Shumway, Collins, and SpaceX did not immediately respond to TechCrunch’s request for comment. …

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U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris speaks on stage with Essence CEO Caroline Wanga at the Global Black Economic Forum during the 30th annual Essence Festival of Culture at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center on July 6, 2024 in New Orleans, Louisiana. Michael Democker | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesIn a year when the U.S. consumer has been weighed down by economic uncertainty, geopolitical tensions and inflation, Black entrepreneurs are eager to get to the Essence Festival of Culture to connect with their core customers.”Essence Fest is like my Black Friday,” said Rochelle Ivory, owner of beauty brand On…

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Referrals from ChatGPT to news publishers are growing, but not enough to counter the decline in clicks resulting from users increasingly getting their news directly from AI or AI-powered search results, according to a report from digital market intelligence company Similarweb. Since the launch of Google’s AI Overviews in May 2024, the firm found that the number of news searches on the web that result in no click-throughs to news websites has grown from 56% to nearly 69% as of May 2025. Not surprisingly, organic traffic has also declined, dropping from over 2.3 billion visits at its peak in mid-2024…

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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina Democratic Gov. Josh Stein vetoed on Thursday three anti-DEI bills and another measure that in part would target transgender rights. His actions set up more showdowns with Republican lawmakers who pitch the legislation as doing away with structured racial bias in government and public education, protecting women and empowering parents.Stein criticized the Republican-controlled legislature for focusing on these measures while they’ve yet to enact a budget for the fiscal year that started this week. Instead, Stein said in a news release, it “wants to distract us by stoking culture wars that further divide us.…

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Denny’s and Waffle House have removed surcharges that the two restaurant chains added to their menus when U.S. egg prices spiked earlier in the year. Denny’s confirmed Thursday that it eliminated its egg surcharge on May 21. Waffle House said Wednesday on social media that it canceled its surcharge on June 2.Waffle House instituted a 50-cent per egg surcharge in February at all of its 1,900 U.S. restaurants due to the soaring cost of eggs. Denny’s also put a surcharge in place in February, but it varied by location.Outbreaks of bird flu in January and February caused the average price…

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A view of the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on June 30, 2025.Jim Watson | Afp | Getty ImagesThe wealthy will likely see a host of new tax breaks in President Donald Trump’s “big beautiful bill,” along with permanent extensions of many of the 2017 tax cuts, according to tax experts.Taxpayers earning $1 million or more are expected to see a boost in after-tax income of about 3% in the Senate version of Trump’s bill, according to the Tax Policy Center. That compares with the nationwide average of about 2.5%. In dollar terms, millionaire earners will see an average after-tax…

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