PET THIEF LEGS IT WITH FERRET IN HIS PANTS

A SLIPPERY weasel played with a pet store ferret in Florida before shoving the critter down his shorts and strolling out the door, cops say.

3 LITTLE GIRLS FOUND DEAD, DAD ON LAM

Kidnapped daughters bound & suffocated

ALZHEIMER'S JAB GETS CLOSER

SCIENTISTS may be closing in on a vaccine for Alzheimer's disease!

3 LITTLE GIRLS FOUND DEAD, DAD ON LAM

Kidnapped daughters bound & suffocated

DIDDY'S DIRT ON J.LO!

Her ex Puff Daddy is smoking mad & ready for revenge

ROSEANNE UP A TREE IN TRACTOR MISHAP

Moves 100-lb branch to escape being trapped

BURGER KING TEEN A PRINCE OF A GUY!

Skips graduation fest to help crew bag fries, earns college $$ reward

Visit Your Ancestral Homeland

LAST YEAR I honeymooned in Rome, which was a long day trip from the tiny 2,500-year-old village in the Campania region of Italy that my maternal grandparents left in the 1910s. Of course I had to go—it was surely my only chance to see where that side of my family had come from.

The Glories of Mexican Dentistry

I CROSSED THE U.S./Mexico border six times in a month in 2018, an economic refugee in my own way.

A Beautiful Private Bridge

FOR MY 80TH birthday, my wife Lou offered to plan a trip somewhere I'd always wanted to go. I chose the Millau Viaduct—Europe's highest and most wonderful bridge.

CAPITALISM IN THE CRACKS

A THREE-STORY HOUSE tucked into a mere one-meter gap between tall buildings. A flower shop shaped like a triangle, wedged between a retaining wall and the sidewalk. A standing bar humming with laughter beneath the rumble of passing trains. In most cities, these spaces would be dead zones—awkward, overlooked, written off by zoning and building codes as unusable.

12:00 THE RISE-AND DEMISE?-OF FREQUENT FLYER MILES

I JOINED MY first frequent flyer program—American AAdvantage—before a trip to Australia in 1991. Sadly, I let those miles expire. Five years later I was out of college, flying regularly for work, and reading all the materials airlines used to send in the mail.

Tiny Nations in the Crack of the Map

AFTER THE INITIAL thrill of a few stamps on one's passport, the idea of touching down in yet another nation-state may seem jejune. After you've seen one nation-state, how truly different can another one be? Airports and highways with instantly navigable signage, cultures and cuisines flattened to meet the supply and demand of global trade, traditions reduced to photo opportunities—just more of the same.

Tropical Culture in Canada's Multicultural Arctic Outpost

ON SATURDAY NIGHT, I had Indian food at a mosque potluck. The next day, I went to an African church service full of gospel music. In between, I went to a hockey game and stood on sea ice to watch a dogsled race. That's life in Iqaluit, a Canadian boomtown on the edge of the Arctic.

11-Day Middle-earth Fantasy in New Zealand

IT’S LITTLE SURPRISE that many libertarians count The Lord of the Rings among their favorite stories.

The Final Vacation Frontier

LOOKING TO GET really away from it all? How about 250 miles straight up and traveling at 17,500 mph away from it all? This year, why not take a vacation in low earth orbit—specifically, on the International Space Station (ISS)?

THE NEARLY FREE MARKETS OF GUATEMALA

EVERYONE KNOWS ABOUT the McDonald's Happy Meal—a global icon, with its bright box, its golden arches, and a toy that keeps kids entertained long after the fries are gone. What most don't know is this worldwide sensation was born in Guatemala, a small Central American country more often associated with coffee, bananas, and (unfortunately) crime.

A CITY BUILT BY IMMIGRANTS—AND BEER

FAR BELOW DOWNTOWN Cincinnati, you'll find large stone-and brick-walled caverns with dirt-strewn floors. Their great arched passageways loom over piles of century-old rubble, vast vats that once overflowed with beer, and recently added stairways to assist tourists passing through.

TRUMP'S CRACKDOWN ON FOREIGNERS IS CRIMPING AMERICANS' TRAVEL PLANS

AS THE TRUMP administration began snatching college students, detaining legal European tourists, denying entry to British crust-punks, rejecting transgender passports, deporting tattooed Salvadorans, insulting the sovereignty of Canadians, and floating plans to ban visitors from 43 countries, the domestic travel and tourism industry braced itself for bad news.

The Rise of the Digital Nomad

\"IT WAS A grueling three-hour commute to my Colorado office this morning. I left Telluride with a yellow day pack strapped to my back, and climbed north into the mountains through the golden glow of early-October aspens,\" wrote Steven K. Roberts in his 1988 book, Computing Across America.

IN SEASIDE, LIVING IS A WAY OF LIFE

YOU MIGHT NOT expect there to be much for libertarians to like about a town that boasts a master plan, where design conformity is rigorously enforced across virtually every building and street, and whose admirers wax poetic about a building code that covers “everything from building materials to roof pitch.”

In Defense of 'Tourist Traps'

IF YOU EVER go to New Orleans, one of your first stops should be the very unhidden gem of Café Du Monde’s French Market location. There you can buy some New Orleans special beignets and, if the weather is hot enough (it almost certainly will be) a frozen coffee to wash them down.

My Dementia Diaries

I've started writing letters to my future self as I watch my mom's mind give way to Alzheimer's. It's a road map to guide me (and my children) should I follow in her footsteps.

HARNESS THE POWER OF THE SUN

No outlet? No problem! A solar charger uses natural light to juice up your gadgets. Here's what to look for when shopping:

Cancel the Baby Shower.Plan a Nesting Party Instead.

I didn’t need more stuff for baby number two, so I invited my closest friends and family members over. Bringing together my community was the best gift I could have gotten.

The Possible Birthplace of Wine and Definite Birthplace of Stalin

THE PEOPLE OF Georgia might well be the first folks who ever got properly wine-drunk.

Wildlife Thrives on Privately Owned Reserves

SITTING IN THE front seat of an open Land Rover being driven furiously backward for about a half-mile while being chased by a bugling, ear-flapping, and very pissed off elephant matriarch is, well, pretty exciting. Our guide later speculated that she had been spooked earlier by a roving pride of lions.

TO HIDE FROM THE STATE, OR TO ESCAPE?

IN HIS 1970 classic Exit, Voice, and Loyalty, Albert O. Hirschman explored three ways people can respond to institutional failure: by standing by the institution anyway, by speaking up to agitate for change within the institution, or by leaving the institution in protest. The European wars of religion, and persistent attempts by the victors in those conflicts to hem in the losers, produced manifold examples of all three.

NOTRE-DAME REBORN FROM THE ASHES

FIRE NEARLY DESTROYED the Notre-Dame Cathedral in 2019. Thanks largely to an outpouring of private donations, the cathedral now shines more brilliantly than it has for centuries.

HOW TO WALK, AROUND THE WORLD

CHRIS ARNADE IS a photojournalist and the author of the Substack newsletter Chris Arnade Walks the World. He spent a decade walking through American landscapes and documenting what he saw. Now he has expanded his project to include cities around the globe, whether they’re large or small, and whether they’re easily walkable or not. His newsletter documents his mileslong walks off the tourist-beaten paths, showcasing real people everywhere from the Faroe Islands to Albany, New York; from Phoenix to Nairobi, Kenya.