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Facebook Tweet Email Link The habit crept up on Kim. She would arrive at garage sales as they were ending to pick up what remained. “I’d load my car full of the free stuff on the side of the road: clothes, things that needed to be fixed, projects,” she told CNN. It was only once things spiraled that Kim, 53, who asked to be identified by her first name to protect her privacy, realized she had a problem that was all too familiar: hoarding, a disorder that she’d spent years urging her mother to seek help for. “I used to…

Officials in Amsterdam are standing firm on their plan to cap the number of river cruise calls at 1,150 ships per year.The popular European destination had 1,950 river ship calls last year after hosting about 2,300 ships in 2023. Looking ahead, Travel Weekly reports that river cruise lines will receive an annual reduction quota for 2026, based on 2025 bookings. According to the European River Cruise Association, river cruise passengers make up only 2 percent of annual visitors to Amsterdam and generate approximately $257 million in direct spending.The group is currently working with city officials to share thoughts and develop…

Facebook Tweet Email Link Sign up for Unlocking the World, CNN Travel’s weekly newsletter. Get news about destinations, plus the latest in aviation, food and drink, and where to stay. In our roundup of travel news this week: the secret tunnel city underneath Rome, China’s “8D city” where trains pass through walls, plus a new report reveals the world’s busiest flight routes, biggest aviation markets and most popular planes. Isn’t data just delicious? The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has released its 2024 World Air Transport Statistics report, and it’s filled with fascinating nuggets. Here are a few to wow…

Welcome to our coverage of developments in Russia’s war with Ukraine. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has reiterated Kyiv’s opposition to any proposal that would demand it give up territory to Russia, ahead of a summit in Alaska next week between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin. In a video statement distributed by the Ukrainian presidency Saturday, Zelensky said the meeting between the US and Russian presidents a on Friday would be “very far from this war which is continuing on our land, against our people and which can’t end without us, without Ukraine.” According to US officials, Putin has offered to…

During a Reddit ask-me-anything session on Friday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and key members of the GPT-5 team were peppered with questions about the new model and requests to bring back its previous model, GPT-4o. They also asked Altman about the most embarrassing — and perhaps funniest — snafu in the presentation, the “chart crime.” One of the new features that GPT-5 rolled out is a real-time router that decides which model to use for a particular prompt, either responding quickly or taking additional time to “think” through answers. But multiple people in the AMA on the r/ChatGPT Reddit complained…

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OpenAI is making a serious play for the federal government. The company just announced a deal that gives U.S. agencies access to ChatGPT Enterprise for just $1 per year. Yes, really. It’s part of a new “blanket purchase agreement” aimed at getting OpenAI’s tools into federal departments fast and a clear sign the company wants to lock down the public sector before anyone else can. The move is aggressive, strategic, and could shape how generative AI gets deployed across everything from admin work to national security. It also puts serious pressure on rivals like Anthropic, Google, and Amazon to figure…

Facebook Tweet Email Link When Bosnia’s electoral authorities stripped Milorad Dodik of his post as president of the tiny Serb-majority statelet Republika Srpska, he did his best to appear unfazed. Instead, the divisive, genocide-denying nationalist laid down his own challenge to the institutions trying to topple him. “What if I refuse?” he asked. Bosnia may be about to find out. Dodik, a key Balkan ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, has been in and around power in Bosnia since 2006, picking at the seams of the country’s patchwork multiethnic state. That state was birthed in 1995 by the Dayton Peace…

NEW YORK (AP) — Debra Taylor has had a busy year or so: She’s going through a divorce while in the process of retiring — and she’s moving to Portugal from Southern California with one of her daughters.After deciding her next home would be outside the U.S., she narrowed down her choices based on tax burdens (Spain was out with its wealth taxes), climate (no Costa Rica, too hot) and ease of travel within Europe, one of her favorite parts of the world. She then toured Portugal with a relocation company, Expatsi, and found her new home, Aveiro. It’s a…

The mystery buyer of the former General Motors factory owned by Foxconn in Lordstown, Ohio, is apparently SoftBank, according to Bloomberg News. SoftBank wants to use the factory to build AI servers as part of the Stargate data center project being spearheaded by the Japanese conglomerate, OpenAI, and Oracle. The report comes just a few days after Foxconn announced it had sold the factory, along with electric vehicle manufacturing equipment that was inside of it, to a buyer it only referred to as “Crescent Dune LLC” — an entity that was created in Delaware in late July. Neither company immediately…