18 Places Across America That'll Make You Feel Like You've Left The Country (No Passport Required)
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Maybe you're craving a vacation someday but you're not quite sure when you'll be up for traveling internationally again. Or perhaps you just want to roadtrip somewhere a bit closer to home. Well, the search is over. These places right here in the US are so unique that they feel a whole lot like international destinations. If we missed one of your favorites, leave it in the comments!
"There are so many wealthy people from the city buying up cheap homes where I live simply to rent them to other wealthy people from the city on AirBnB. People can't afford to live here anymore — but most of the homes are empty six months out of the year."
The mayor of Nice is moving to ban large cruise ships from docking in its port, aiming to tackle pollution and overtourism. The decision mirrors Venice's 2021 ban, introduced to protect its fragile environment and infrastructure. Mayor Christian Estrosi, of the centre-right Horizons party, announced this week during his New Year’s address that he plans to ban cruise ships exceeding 190 metres in length and carrying more than 900 passengers, starting this summer.The ban will apply to Nice and the
American Airlines got its corporate travel strategy badly wrong after the pandemic—and it’s still paying the price. As business travel recovered, the carrier tried to push customers toward booking on its website and app in a bid to reduce travel agency commissions and the millions of dollar spent offering companies perks to discount for being their carrier of choice The airline began removing some fares from its corporate booking channels to encourage customers to book directly with American, while also limiting its loyalty program to those booking directly. The strategy faced a backlash and corporate customers started to abandon American benefiting rivals United Airlines and Delta Air Lines In May, American cut its revenue forecast and in July flagged $1.5 billion in lost revenue in 2024 due to the move.
With the Canadian dollar hovering around 70 cents U.S., some of Alberta's popular ski destinations and Indigenous tourism operators are looking to pitch the area as an affordable vacation spot for American tourists. However, that could change if potential U.S. tariffs materialize.
Etihad Airways and flynas are gearing up to list on local stock markets this year, marking the first IPOs by Gulf carriers in nearly two decades, with Etihad sounding out investors next week ahead of a potential sale of around a 20% stake, two sources said. Etihad is looking at a listing this quarter, the people with knowledge of its plans said, with one of them saying the airline would target both local and international investors. It could raise around $1 billion in what would be the first airline IPO in the Gulf since Kuwait's Jazeera Airways in 2008, one of the two people and a third source said.
A wild story that Barack Obama is romantically involved with actress Jennifer Aniston has resurfaced amid growing rumors that the former president and his wife Michelle were headed for divorce. The Obama split rumors intensified after Michelle let her husband fly solo at two major presidential events: Jimmy Carter’s funeral, and Donald Trump’s inauguration. On Jimmy Kimmel in October, actress Aniston rejected the gossip after the late-night host handed her an In Touch magazine with a cover that
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ESPN pundit Stephen A. Smith seemed to stun Bill Maher’s live audience on Friday night as he took down Democrats for prioritizing “issues that pertain to less than 1% of the population.” Smith was joined by actor Jesse Eisenberg and California Rep. Ro Khanna in a round table discussion with Real Time host Maher as he alleged that Democrats enabled President Donald Trump’s sweeping victory. “Here’s the deal. The man was impeached twice. He was convicted on 34 felony counts,” said Smith. “And the
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President Donald Trump fired the highest-ranking woman in the military while at a ball celebrating his role as commander in chief. The Coast Guard commandant, Admiral Linda L. Fagan, was the first female uniformed leader of a branch of the armed forces. Fagan learned she had been fired while waiting to take a photo with Trump at the Commander in Chief Ball on Inauguration Day, The New York Times reported.
President Donald Trump suggested that Ukraine should have opted not to fight back against Russia’s invasion. In a Fox News interview that aired Thursday, Trump told Sean Hannity that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s decision to fight when Russia invaded in 2022 was a mistake. Trump, who met Zelensky in Paris in December, conceded that Russian president Vladimir Putin “shouldn’t have done it,” but criticized his Ukrainian counterpart and said: “Zelensky... shouldn’t have allowed this to h