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In our newest weekly roundup, CNN Journey celebrates love tales: The gal buddies who bonded over marriage misgivings, the 22-year-olds who discovered their life companion by shopping for cheapskate standby tickets and the gibbon who mystified zookeepers by having a child when she lived alone in her cage.

Life’s turning factors occur on the journey, not on the vacation spot.

Maggie Musgrave was flying again from her bachelorette occasion, crying as a result of she thought the marriage was a mistake, when she discovered consolation by speaking with fellow traveler Cindy Jarrin at a Miami airport. Maggie’s marriage didn’t work out, however her decade-long friendship with Cindy is a love story for the ages.

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And 22-year-old Vickie Moretz had by no means left the southern United States when she and her buddy booked standby flights to London in 1982 – with out understanding what standby meant. After pleading with airline employees, Vickie received the final seat on the aircraft and was seated subsequent to a 22-year-old Englishman named Graham. They married earlier than the top of the 12 months and, 4 a long time on, theirs is a whirlwind romance that by no means stopped.

No, you’re not simply imagining it. European locations actually are reserving up quick, even in low season.

On-line reserving platforms, tour operators and resort firms affirm that US vacationers are busy packing their baggage for transatlantic adventures earlier than spring leaves are even in bud. The elevated demand is pushing up costs, too. Right here’s our report so you can begin working in your 2023 trip technique.

Oversubscribed locations are being more and more selective concerning the varieties of vacationers they need to entice. The most recent transfer in Amsterdam’s “keep away” marketing campaign to discourage party-hungry vacationers is to ban marijuana use on the streets of its pink gentle district.

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And late final 12 months, a French ski resort grew to become the primary in Europe to ban tobacco smoking in all its communal areas.

Snow leopards made the information twice this week: As soon as because the profitable picture within the Wildlife Photographer of the Yr Folks’s Alternative Award and as soon as as one of many creatures focused within the latest Dallas Zoo animal thefts. The 24-year-old suspect charged with the spree reportedly informed police that if he will get out of jail, he would do it once more.

Mexico has banned shark-related tourism actions on Guadalupe Island off the coast of Baja California, a preferred spot for pursuits together with cage diving and sport fishing. The wildlife safety determination successfully ends the island’s once-busy tourism economic system.

Lastly, federal authorities opened an unattended bag at a Detroit airport and found a younger dolphin’s cranium. It’s been handed over to US Fish and Wildlife Service inspectors for investigation.

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Divers Jonas Dahm and Carl Douglas have devoted 25 years to wreck-hunting. A e-book now gathers collectively their eerie images of the barnacle-clad vessels they’ve found within the icy waters of the Baltic Sea.

Passengers are getting more and more proactive relating to misplaced baggage, with many utilizing GPS trackers to find their lacking baggage – resembling skilled poker participant Steve O’Dwyer, who went on an epic marketing campaign, together with a dwell TV broadcast, to retrieve his bag from London Heathrow.

Our companions at CNN Underscored, a product evaluations and suggestions information owned by CNN, have put collectively 9 AirTag suggestions and methods that will help you get essentially the most out of your Apple tracker.

A feminine gibbon who lived alone in her cage had a child.

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Japanese zookeepers have lastly discovered how.

When daylight and water hit excellent, the “Firefall” at Yosemite Nationwide Park is one in all nature’s miracles.

However for the February 2023 season, you’ll want reservations for sure dates.

A FedEx aircraft touchdown in Texas nearly hit a Southwest flight taking off.

Watch CNN’s report on the near-miss.

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The 120-passenger sailboat will set out in 2026.

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Spencerville Seventh-day Adventist Church in Montgomery County, Maryland is currently meeting at the Lutheran Church of St. Andrew, after their building suffered a fire. It is one example of interfaith cooperation in the most religiously diverse county in the country.

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SILVER SPRING, Md. — About 30 miles north of Washington, D.C. is a winding road surrounded by leafy trees and lots of churches. But not just churches.

There’s a Kingdom Hall of Jehovah’s Witnesses, the Cambodian Buddhist Society, Muslim Community Center, the Maryland Hindu Milan Mandir, and even a home with a sign out front advertising psychic readings.

This stretch of New Hampshire Avenue in Silver Spring, Maryland is so packed with houses of worship, it’s been called the Embassy Row of Religions. But locals know it as the Highway to Heaven.

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The Highway to Heaven sits on the eastern part of Montgomery County, Maryland, which was determined to be the most religiously diverse county in the country, according to the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI). The U.S. Census does not collect data about religious affiliation, so the PRRI Census of American Religion is considered to be one of the most reliable sources of data on the topic.

Melissa Deckman is the CEO of the Public Religion Research Institute, which conducted the survey. She said the counties with the most religious diversity have some common denominators.

“[They are] the most populated counties in the country, but they’re also the most racially and ethnically diverse,” said Deckman.

Just 40% of residents in Montgomery County are white, another 20% are Hispanic. The county also has larger populations of African-Americans and Asian-Americans, said Deckman. “There are higher percentages of residents who are Hindu, who are Buddhist, who are Muslim.”

Other counties at the top of PRRI’s diversity list included Kings County, New York, which includes Brooklyn; Suffolk County, Massachusetts; and San Francisco County, California. Counties with the least religious diversity included Holmes County, Mississippi; Macon County, Alabama; and Appling County, Georgia

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Interfaith cooperation

On a sunny Saturday morning, families from the Spencerville Seventh-day Adventist Church gather for worship. (For Seventh-day Adventists, the sabbath is Saturday as opposed to Sunday as in most Christian denominations.)

But the congregation isn’t actually meeting at their own church. Instead, men in suits greet worshippers at the door of the Lutheran Church of St. Andrew — about a mile and a half up the road.

In August, Spencerville Seventh-day Adventist Church suffered a fire, and the congregation is still unable to use the building.Crystal E. Ward, the church’s executive pastor, said it’s been a positive experience to have supportive communities of faith nearby.

“The Lutheran church and the pastor here [have] been so welcoming and gracious to us to allow us a space where we can worship. So we’re here worshiping every Saturday.”

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These kinds of interfaith partnerships are often the goal, but the geographic closeness on the Highway to Heaven may make them more possible.

“There’s a mosque, the Muslim Community Center, which are amazing interfaith partners and do a lot in the community,” said Kate Chance, the Faith Community Outreach Manager for the Office of Community Partnerships in Montgomery County.

“They have a health clinic to support folks, and right next to it is the Ukrainian church. And so they share parking lots. They’re very good friends. But when the Ukrainian church was supporting Ukrainian newcomers, they’re taking the newcomers to the MCC’s health clinic.”

Communities with deep roots

Two miles north of the Muslim Community Center and St. Andrew Ukrainian Orthodox Church is Holy Trinity Ukrainian Catholic Church. It’s a striking building — tall, wooden, and topped with a polygonal pyramid that can be seen from the road. It would look out of place anywhere else in Silver Spring. But on the Highway to Heaven, the log construction (typical in the Carpathian Mountains) is just one of many thoughtfully built houses of worship.

Holy Trinity Particular Ukrainian Catholic Church is a wooden building with a stone foundation and sits atop green grass.

Holy Trinity Particular Ukrainian Catholic Church follows the Byzantine Rite and sits on the “Highway to Heaven” in Silver Spring, Maryland.

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“This is the church that I grew up in. I had my first communion. I was a part of this congregation before the church was even built, we had our first church in Washington, DC in a house,” said Lila Johnson. She drives with her family around an hour and fifteen minutes each way to come to this church.

She enjoys celebrating the mass entirely in Ukrainian — just like her parents and grandparents did.

“The mass is just moving and beautiful, and I couldn’t imagine going anywhere else,” said Johnson

On the Highway to Heaven, there are enough options that most people don’t have to.

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Mike Tyson, left, and Jake Paul faced off in the live bout on FridayNetflix’s push into streaming live events was put to its biggest test on Friday with the boxing match-up between former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson and Jake Paul, a YouTube influencer who became a professional fighter in 2020.

The bout, which was won by Paul, 27, who beat Tyson, 58, on points, was available to all of Netflix’s 280mn subscribers at no extra charge, a departure from the expensive pay-per-view or premium TV packages that have long been associated with professional boxing. 

Boxing used to be a lucrative business for the pay-TV networks HBO and Showtime, but both exited the sport as its popularity declined. 

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For Netflix, the Tyson-Paul bout was aimed at attracting new subscribers — particularly to its advertising-supported service, analysts say. The company’s ad tier, launched in late 2022, has about 70mn subscribers. 

The boxing “megaevent . . . should boost audience engagement and attract advertising-tier subscribers, viewers and dollars”, analysts at JPMorgan said.  

On social media, some fans complained about buffering problems during the fight. The website Down Detector reported that more than 84,000 viewers reported problems.

The unusual bout featuring Tyson, the fiercest and most controversial boxer of his generation, and Paul, a brash social media star, appeared to be part of a strategy to target younger male viewers. In January, Netflix signed a $5bn, 10-year deal with World Wrestling Entertainment’s weekly Raw programme in the US, by far the group’s biggest foray into streaming live events. 

Netflix has had success with what it calls “sports-adjacent” programming, including documentaries such as Formula 1: Drive to Survive and Beckham. But it is starting to feature more live sporting events, including a planned National Football League game on Christmas Day — prompting speculation on Wall Street that it plans to eventually secure a rights deal with a major sports league.

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Ted Sarandos, co-chief executive, has tried to damp the speculation, saying Netflix does not want to enter a typical sports rights deal in which most of the financial benefit goes to a league.  

“Where we can really differentiate and outcompete everybody is in the storytelling of sports, the drama of sports,” Sarandos said on an earnings call earlier this year. 

Netflix’s position contrasts with its streaming rivals, including Amazon Prime, Apple TV and Google’s YouTube, which gobbled up sports professional sports rights — Amazon has NFL’s Thursday Night Football, Apple hosts Major League Baseball’s Friday Night Baseball and YouTube is the home of the NFL’s Sunday Ticket roster of games. But analysts at Morgan Stanley have said they expect Netflix to eventually enter the competition for sports rights as traditional TV networks decline and existing deals with major US sports leagues expire by 2030. 

Netflix began experimenting with live programming last year with a comedy special by Chris Rock, which faced technical problems. It has also live-streamed the SAG awards and a “roast” of retired American football star Tom Brady.  

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One of Donald Trump’s most controversial cabinet picks just became even more so: Pete Hegseth, tapped for defense secretary earlier this week, was accused of sexual assault in 2017, according to police.

No charges were filed in the case, but shocked Trump transition team officials are nonetheless reportedly weighing next steps for the Fox News host, whose nomination took many in Washington by surprise.

President-elect Trump nominated the 44-year-old National Guard veteran on Tuesday to run the world’s most powerful military, despite having never managed a large organization.

Police in Monterey, California confirmed Thursday that they had investigated “an alleged sexual assault” at a hotel involving Hegseth that included bruising to the victim’s right thigh, in early October 2017.

News of the woman’s accusations caught the Trump team off guard, according to Vanity Fair, which first reported the story.

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Hegseth’s lawyer Timothy Parlatore told the publication that the allegation “was already investigated by the Monterey police department and they found no evidence for it.”

And Trump’s communications director Steven Cheung said that Hegseth “has vigorously denied any and all accusations, and no charges were filed.

“We look forward to his confirmation as United States Secretary of Defense so he can get started on Day One to Make America Safe and Great Again,” Cheung said.

Hegseth’s hearing in the Senate is likely to be among the more fraught, not only due to his lack of experience but also other controversies, such as his lobbying of Trump during his first term to pardon service members accused of war crimes.

Hegseth joined Fox News as a contributor in 2014 and now co-hosts “Fox and Friends Weekend” and serves as a host for “Fox Nation.”

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He additionally served as an infantry officer in the National Guard, deploying to Iraq and Afghanistan.

The accusations against Hegseth come as Trump’s pick for attorney general, far-right former congressman Matt Gaetz, stunned many following his lengthy embroilment in sexual misconduct allegations.

And Trump himself was convicted of financial wrongdoing for covering up payments to a former porn star and found liable for defaming and sexually abusing an author.

Hegseth has been married three times, divorcing his first wife in 2009 following an “irretrievable breakdown” and “infidelity,” according to the Washington Post.

His second wife filed for divorce in September 2017, one month after he had a baby with a Fox News producer whom he subsequently married, according to US media.

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