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Canadian investor Kevin O’Leary revealed on CNBC Monday that he was one of three buyers to snap up the record-breaking Kobe Bryant and Michael Jordan sports card at auction over the weekend.The card, a signed collectible featuring both NBA legends, sold for nearly $13 million, surpassing the previous record for the most-expensive trading card sold at auction, a 1952 Topps Mickey Mantle #311, which went for $12.6 million in August 2022, according to auction house Heritage, which sold both cards.As of the completion of the Bryant-Jordan sale, the buyers remained anonymous. O’Leary told CNBC he bought the card along with…
Southwest Airlines is implementing some changes to its long-standing “customer of size” policy, with several plus-size travelers saying the updates make an already stressful experience even harder.Starting January 27, 2026, the airline will require passengers who “encroach upon the neighboring seat” to purchase an additional ticket—something that was previously encouraged but not strictly enforced. The rule coincides with another major shift for the carrier: the end of its signature open seating system and the move to assigned seating. For years, Southwest stood out from other major airlines by offering a relatively flexible policy for plus-size travelers. They could book a…
From AI to EVs, the world’s demand for power is soaring, and the electrical grid is feeling the squeeze. Enter Yottar, a startup that maps electrical grid capacity to help companies figure out where they can plug in new data centers, EV charging stations, and other power-hungry equipment. “The electrification super cycle is colliding with the AI data center boom. That’s making the grid operators really struggle to deal with the backlog,” Peter Clutton-Brock, Yottar’s co-founder and CEO, told TechCrunch. “Just as an example, around London, pretty much all of the capacity for things like large-scale data centers has been…
Facebook Tweet Email Link Paris — A man in France has been detained on suspicion of murder after four bodies were found in Paris’ River Seine earlier this month. The suspect, who prosecutors described as a “homeless man in his twenties,” was brought before a judicial court on Sunday, the Créteil Public Prosecutor’s Office said in a statement to CNN. He is being investigated for “multiple counts of murder” in respect to the four victims, all of whom were men, the prosecutor’s office said. On August 13, the bodies of the four men were discovered in the Parisian municipality of…
Keurig Dr Pepper will acquire Dutch coffee and tea company JDE Peet’s in a roughly $18 billion deal that could give a boost to the U.S. giant’s struggling coffee business, the two companies said Monday.Shares of Keurig Dr Pepper fell roughly 8% in early trading, while shares of JDE Peet’s climbed 17%, on pace for its best day ever.The deal was first reported by the Wall Street Journal.Keurig Dr Pepper will pay JDE Peet’s shareholders 31.85 euros ($37.3) per share in cash, representing a 33% premium on the Dutch’s firm’s 90-day volume-weighted average stock price, which represents a total equity…
Facebook Tweet Email Link Ian Kerner is a licensed marriage and family therapist, writer and CNN contributor on sex and relationships. His most recent book is a guide for couples, “So Tell Me About the Last Time You Had Sex.” Nearly every day I meet couples in long-term relationships who lament about missing the early days of great sex — when they couldn’t keep their hands off each other, when sex was new and exciting, bold and bawdy. “What happened?” they ask each other and me. “How do we start having great sex again?” For some, the search for “great”…
Facebook Tweet Email Link EDITOR’S NOTE: This CNN Travel series is, or was, sponsored by the country it highlights. CNN retains full editorial control over subject matter, reporting and frequency of the articles and videos within the sponsorship, in compliance with our policy. Summer in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is not for the faint-hearted. The mercury rises beyond 40 degrees Celsius, or 104 Fahrenheit, and the bright sun dazzles down on environments that have little in the way of natural shelter. Traditionally, the UAE has embraced outdoor sports and large-scale fitness events, from desert marathons to beachfront yoga sessions.…
LONDON (AP) — Revellers are parading in colorful costumes through the streets of Notting Hill, in west London, for the annual carnival which started in 1966 and is one of the largest festival celebrations of its kind in Europe celebrating Caribbean culture. The two-day street event attracts around 2 million revellers, musicians and dancers with around 7,000 police officers and staff on duty each day. __ Revellers take part in the parade during the Notting Hill Carnival in London, Monday, Aug. 25, 2025, Europe’s biggest street party and one of the largest carnivals in the world.(AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali) Revellers take…
NEW YORK (AP) — On the first day of shooting “Frankenstein,” Guillermo del Toro held up a drawing of the creature he had made when was a teenager.“He said, ‘This is like Jesus to me,’” recalls Oscar Isaac. For the Mexican-born filmmaker, Mary Shelley’s 1881 gothic novel and the 1931 film with Boris Karloff are his personal urtexts: the origin of a lifelong affection for the monsters del Toro has ever since, in reams of sketches and in a filmography doted by them, breathed into life. For a misunderstood kid growing up in a devout Catholic family, Frankenstein’s creature, unloved…
Carol Rowland (Source: Carol Rowland)Travel Advisor Success Stories focus on veteran advisors and how they achieved success. Here’s a look at Carol Rowland, CTC, principal and director of tour operations at Recess 4 Grownups Travel.How did you get your start as a travel advisor? I actually traveled very little as a kid, and as an adult, it was mostly for work. I planned some celebration-type cruises for our 20th and 25th anniversaries and a detailed itinerary in New York for my mom’s 75th birthday, and my cousin said, ‘You really should do this as a business.’I really didn’t think it…