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By Kris Van Cleave Updated April 24, 2026 With many Americans planning summer getaways, airfares are climbing and experts advise booking soon. Industry analyst Henry Harteveldt of Atmosphere Research Group told CBS...
By Kris Van Cleave | Updated April 23, 2026 / 8:42 PM EDT / CBS News
After a breakup, everyday objects — towels embroidered with a name, a shared toothbrush caddy, bedding tied to old routines — can turn a home into a gallery of memories. To help people put the pieces back together, some...
New data suggest a revival of religious interest among young men. A Gallup survey cited by CBS News found 42% of men ages 18 to 29 said religion was "very important" to them in 2024 and 2025, up from 28% in the previous...
Retired California teaching assistant Angel Barba has spent the past seven years rescuing and raising orphaned and fallen baby squirrels. From her home in Lafayette, California, she and a web of volunteers mobilize each...
Chef José Andrés, who was born in Spain and became a U.S. citizen in 2014, frames food as the link between our past and our future. Through his humanitarian group, World Central Kitchen, he has overseen the delivery of...
A life jacket worn by a passenger who escaped the sinking RMS Titanic sold at auction Saturday for $906,000. The flotation device belonged to first-class passenger Laura Mabel Francatelli and bears her signature along...
Great Neck, New York — At 102, George Strausman remains remarkably spry. 'I'm feeling good,' he told CBS News. He still works four days a week at his family's construction business, but on his day off he pursues...
Holiday travel was already disrupted by weekend storms, and while lines at airports have started to ease, travelers now face rising ticket prices as airlines pass along higher jet fuel costs. At Newark Liberty Airport...
Every Mardi Gras morning, a hidden pageant unfolds in New Orleans’ back streets: groups of Black revelers known as Mardi Gras Indians or Black Masking Indians, whose extravagant hand-sewn suits most tourists never see....
On Mardi Gras morning in New Orleans, the Mardi Gras Indians — also called Black Masking Indians — take to the streets in suits covered with beads, feathers and rhinestones. These costumes are not off-the-rack: artisans...
Big Chief Demond Melancon invests so deeply in the hand-sewn suits he wears for Mardi Gras that the craft once cost him his home. Melancon belongs to New Orleans' Black Masking tradition, commonly called the Mardi Gras...
