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by Lacey Pfalz Last updated: 11:10 AM ET, Mon July 21, 2025 Montana Estate in Kitzbuhel, Austria. (Photo Credit: Montana Estate in Kitzbuhel, Austria.)Full-service luxury villa company, Rental Escapes, is expanding its offerings across the globe with new villas in new destinations London, England and Kitzbühel, Austria, along with more offerings across Portugal, Costa Rica, Sicily and more. “As demand for luxury travel continues to grow, we’re proud to expand our portfolio with new and enhanced offerings in some of the most desirable destinations around the world,” said Brian Schwimmer, chief executive officer of Rental Escapes.  London is a new destination…

Enterprise design startup Figma has entered the next step of its IPO journey. Figma announced Monday it is kicking off its IPO roadshow. The company plans to offer more than 36 million shares of class A stock that are expected to be priced between $25 and $28 a share. This offering includes a mix of primary and secondary shares and would allow the company to raise around $1 billion. The company is expected to price its IPO the week of July 28. If the company prices its shares in the middle of its range, it will garner a market value…

Rome CNN  —  Two Italian nationals living in the United States are among the inmates currently being held at the ICE detention center known as “Alligator Alcatraz” in Florida, according to Italy’s foreign ministry. Fernando Eduardo Artese, 63, and Gaetano Cateno Mirabella Costa, 45, were both sent to the facility, said to be surrounded by alligators, on immigration violations. Italy’s foreign ministry confirmed to CNN that the two men were being detained in the US, but would not give any further details, citing privacy reasons. The Italian government, led by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, has not publicly commented on the…

The death of Malcolm-Jamal Warner at just 54 was mourned by fans and admirers of the actor, who played the only son of Bill Cosby’s Cliff Huxtable on the landmark series “The Cosby Show” from 1984 to 1992 and also starred on the UPN sitcom “Malcolm & Eddie” with Eddie Griffin.Warner died Sunday in an accidental drowning at a Costa Rica beach, authorities there said Monday.Actor Tracee Ellis Ross, who later played Warner’s wife in the BET sitcom “Reed Between the Lines,” wrote that her “heart is so, so sad.” Magic Johnson said, “Every time I ran into Malcolm, we…

Facebook Tweet Email Link From the first day of his second term, President Donald Trump has used a whole-of-government approach not only to limit the transgender community’s rights but even to deny their existence. Trans people make up less than 0.6% of the United States population ages 13 and older, according to the Williams Institute, a public policy research center focused on sexual orientation and gender identity at the University of California, Los Angeles School of Law, and some experts are concerned that the Trump administration’s efforts are only the lead-up to widespread crackdowns on all Americans’ personal and medical…

Silicon Valley is doubling down on defense as geopolitical tensions rise and appetite for modernizing warfare grows. And while many of the startups garnering large valuations are focused on hardware and weaponry — think Anduril, Shield AI, and Skydio — Rune Technologies wants to tackle AI-enabled software for military logistics.  “The U.S. military runs on Excel spreadsheets and whiteboards and manual processes right now to execute logistics operations,” co-founder David Tuttle told TechCrunch. “Logistics is never the sexiest part of the military. The technology industry emphasis is on how do we make things go boom? How do we build great…

CNN  —  Venezuela says it is opening a formal investigation into several Salvadoran officials, including President Nayib Bukele, over the alleged abuse of Venezuelan migrants deported from the US. Some 252 Venezuelans, who had been imprisoned at the notorious Cecot prison in March following their deportation, were released and returned to their home country on Friday in exchange for 10 US nationals and dozens of Venezuelan political prisoners, US officials said. Venezuela has previously accused El Salvador of kidnapping the detainees after it agreed with the US to take them into custody. El Salvador claimed the detainees had ties to…

DETROIT (AP) — For Black youth and teens growing up in the mid-1980s, “The Cosby Show” offered something rarely seen on television up until that time: a sitcom that placed characters who looked like them in a positive light.And Malcolm-Jamal Warner’s Theo Huxtable was the character Generation X most related to. Fans took quickly to social media on Monday as news of Warner’s accidental drowning in Costa Rica spread.“It’s like losing one of us,” said Harriet Cammock, a 58-year-old Detroit author and speaker. “This is the thing with television. When you’re watching people every week on television, you think you…

Facebook Tweet Email Link Albany, Georgia KFF Health News  —  Belinda McLoyd has been thinking about peanut butter. McLoyd, 64, receives a small monthly payment through the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, previously known as food stamps. “They don’t give you that much to work with,” she said. To fit her tight budget, she eats ramen noodles — high on sodium and low on nutrition — multiple times a week. If she had more money, said McLoyd, who has been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis and heart problems, she’d buy more grapes, melons, chuck roast, ground turkey, cabbage, and turnip greens.…

by Sarah Kuta Last updated: 8:45 PM ET, Sun July 20, 2025 CELEBRATION KEY, Bahamas – The Bahamian sun shone brightly as Carnival Cruise Line officially opened its highly anticipated private destination on Grand Bahama, Celebration Key.On Saturday, the first guests arrived at Celebration Key aboard the 3,934-guest Carnival Vista. The company’s leaders—including Carnival Cruise Line president Christine Duffy, Carnival Corporation chief executive officer Josh Weinstein and “chief fun officer” Shaquille O’Neal—welcomed travelers to the $600 million destination. Christine Duffy, Shaquille O’Neal and Josh Weinstein at Celebration Key (Photo Credit: Carnival Cruise Line)“We are finally here at Celebration Key on…