Sports

WWE star CM Punk rips Bears' leadership amid team's disappointing season

Jan. 30, 2025

Phillip Brooks, better known by his WWE ring name, CM Punk, is not happy with the state of his hometown NFL team. Punk, who was born in Chicago, aired some of his grievances with the Bears during a guest appearance on Netflix's NFL coverage Christmas Day. "Nothing’s going to change until the McCaskeys sell the team. I said it," Punk said in reference to the family that inherited ownership of the Bears from team founder George Halas several decades ago.

Entertainment

What is FireAid, the LA wildfire benefit concert featuring Billie Eilish, Stevie Wonder and more?

Jan. 30, 2025

Two major fires in and around Los Angeles are burning for a third week, destroying more than 14,000 structures and displacing tens of thousands. In the midst of the devastation, relief efforts continue across communities and industries — with musicians rallying to several causes, notably the FireAid benefit concert.

Sports

Best non-Super Bowl 2025 bets, predictions by Chris "The Bear" Fallica

Jan. 30, 2025

With a little over a week until Super Bowl LIX on FOX, let’s take a step away from football and see what other betting possibilities exist out there. Here are a few wagers I have in my pocket right now.

Travel

Chaos as Italian ski resort is overrun by TikTok tourists

Jan. 30, 2025

Not all publicity is good publicity. Especially when it leads to 10,000 daytrippers invading a ski resort, chaotic scenes on the slopes, extreme traffic snarl-ups, accusations of bad behavior and emergency crowd control measures. That’s what happened at Roccaraso, one of Italy’s most popular skiing destinations, on Sunday after viral influencer posts on social media about bumper snowfalls prompted tour companies in the coastal city of Naples to organize cheap tour buses for bored residents to enjoy an outing in the mountains.

Entertainment

King Charles’ slimmed-down monarchy forces Princess Anne to keep working for scandal-ridden royals: expert

Jan. 30, 2025

Princess Anne, known as the "hardest-working royal," has no plans to step down. In a new interview with the Press Association, King Charles’ sister said she isn’t scaling back on her royal responsibilities in the coming years. Anne, 74, revealed that when it comes to retiring "it isn’t really an option." "I don’t think there’s a retirement program on this particular life," said the Princess Royal, as quoted by the BBC. "It really isn’t written in, no."

Travel

This 200-year-old cottage in the middle of nowhere has been given a Michelin star

Jan. 30, 2025

A year and a half ago, chef Robbie McCauley left behind the swanky kitchens of some of the UK and Ireland’s best restaurants to cook in a remote Irish cottage on a cliff overlooking the Atlantic. The low, whitewashed, flagstone-roofed building surrounded by empty green fields, miles from the nearest town, looks the very definition of rural Ireland. Close by are the Cliffs of Moher. This dramatic, windswept landscape carved by wild oceans stands on the westernmost edge of Europe and has made numerous movie appearances.

Travel

She relocated to Spain in 2022, but after struggling to adapt, this American woman has packed up and returned home

Jan. 30, 2025

After vacationing in Spain a few times, Cristina Martinez, from the US, felt enamoured with the European country and was eager to return — for good. Cristina, who is from a Cuban background and speaks fluent Spanish, eventually decided to relocate there with her husband. “We wanted to be in Europe and live the European lifestyle,” Cristina tells CNN Travel. In 2021, the couple, who were based in Fort Myers, Florida, at the time, sold their home and went on to move to Spain the following year.

International News

Hamas frees 8 more hostages. Israel releases Palestinian prisoners after delay

Jan. 30, 2025

The release of 110 Palestinians got back on track after the Israeli government said it had received assurances about future exchanges.

International News

They thought it was safe to walk home. Instead, she was the last child killed before Gaza's truce.

Jan. 30, 2025

As Ahmed al-Qudra set off to see what — if anything — remained of his family’s home in the village of al-Qarara, he believed the long-awaited ceasefire in Gaza had begun. So at around 9 a.m. on Sunday, Jan. 19, he began walking north through the city of Khan Younis with his seven children, including his oldest son, Adli, 16, and his youngest daughter, Sama, 6.

Science & Tech

In NASA asteroid samples, scientists discover key building blocks of life

Jan. 30, 2025

In samples taken from a distant asteroid, scientists have discovered a host of organic molecules, including key building blocks of life. The surprising finding suggests the chemical ingredients necessary for life may have been widespread across the early solar system. NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, which launched in 2016, scooped up bits of dust, soil and rocks from the asteroid Bennu and then brought them to Earth in 2023. The 4.5-billion-year-old asteroid is thought to have formed in the first 10 million years of the solar system’s existence.