By Kati Chitrakorn, CNN

London (CNN) — Buying a tailored suit is not something many would associate with Nigo, the Japanese multi-hyphenate designer who famously established the blueprint for modern streetwear with his loud, graphic-heavy, scarcity-driven designs. Yet one of the first things he did on his latest trip to London was visit the city’s infamous tailoring street, Savile Row.

“Recently, my suits have been from Henry Poole, but I’ve been having my suits made for the last 20 years from Huntsman, and from Anderson & Sheppard,” Nigo says, during a rare interview at the Design Museum where an exhibition spotlighting his three-decade career opens Friday.

“I wanted to see what it was like to have something that wasn’t casual,” he adds, after also naming where he gets his shoes (John Lobb and George Cleverley) and bespoke shirts (Turnbull & Asser). “It used to be that restaurants would have dress codes. Now, everyone’s in jeans. The world has changed. I think it’s boring if you’re always dressed casually. Fashion is to be enjoyed. You need a bit of variety.”

The view aligns with the wider shift in menswear towards more refined, quality focused pieces. It’s also indicative of Nigo’s notoriously vast interests, which has taken him from the bustle of Tokyo, where he spent his formative years, to the high fashion runways in Paris, where he has been the artistic director of the French label Kenzo since 2021.

Extraordinarily, the Design Museum show will be the first about the designer, who is also a DJ, collector and entrepreneur, to be staged outside of his native Japan, despite his extensive influence on creative tastemakers and collaborators, such as Pharrell Williams, Ye, Kim Jones, and the late Virgil Abloh, who have all frequently credited Nigo for his impact on their work and fashion more widely. “There wouldn’t be Joopiter if it weren’t for Nigo,” said Williams in 2024, referring to his online auction house selling rare luxury items, art and memorabilia.

The exhibition features over 700 objects, including collectibles, traditional craft and vintage objects from Nigo’s personal archive. It begins with a recreation of his teenage bedroom in Maebashi, Gunma, where he was born in 1970 as Tomoaki Nagao. He later adopted the name, Nigo, which translates to “Number Two” in Japanese, as a nod to his mentor — the legendary Japanese designer, musician and DJ, Hiroshi Fujiwara — whom he was once considered the “second” version of. The exhibition then proceeds chronologically, with sections dedicated to key moments from his life.

Asked whether he thought twice about anything that was included — perhaps something felt too personal, too private, or too contradictory? — Nigo pauses before responding: “I wanted to show everything,” and specifically, he says, items from “1980s Japan, back when we didn’t have the internet.” Among the items displayed in the bedroom are fashion and lifestyle magazines like Olive, Men’s Club and Popeye, a word processor, and a turntable from the decade. Elsewhere in the exhibition are Nigo’s creative works, including his designs for Kenzo and Human Made, and collaborations with big brands like Louis Vuitton and Uniqlo. One of the centerpieces is an electric blue ensemble that he designed for his friend, the American rapper Kid Cudi, to wear to the 2022 Met Gala.

A natural-born tastemaker

An avid collector of everything from furniture to figurines, Nigo insists that each purchase occurs from a place of genuine interest, rather than a decision made based on potential resale value. Though, he seems to have a knack for investing in things that will become popular and, subsequently, valuable.

When Nigo was a teenager, he would often hop on a train to

By Brad Lendon, CNN

(CNN) — The German submarine captain saw his target’s silhouette against the evening sky off the coast of southern England and gave the command to fire a single torpedo.

It was the last anyone would see of the US Coast Guard Cutter Tampa and its 131 crew members for more than 107 years.

Three minutes after that German torpedo struck the vessel amidships, the Tampa was on the bottom of the Atlantic with all crew lost, the largest naval loss for US forces during World War I.

On Wednesday, the Coast Guard announced a team of British divers had located the wreck of the Tampa last weekend at a depth of 300 feet (91 meters) some 50 miles (80 kilometers) off the Cornwall coast.

The wreckage was found by the British Gasperados Dive Team, a volunteer technical-diving team that worked with historians and researchers to find wrecks around the UK, according to its Facebook page.

The team had been looking for the Tampa since 2023.

“This discovery is the result of three years of research and exploration. TAMPA is of huge importance to the United States and the relatives of everyone who died that day. Their final resting place is known at last,” dive team leader Steve Mortimer said in a Facebook post.

“Finding TAMPA didn’t just happen last weekend. This was the tenth trip to dive possible targets and everyone – whether skipper, crew, researcher, liaison or diver – played a part. We’re still buzzing. We did it!” another Facebook post said.

The Coast Guard said it provided the group with records and data to confirm the wreck was the Tampa.

“This included the archival images of the deck fittings, ship’s wheel, bell, weaponry and archival images of the Tampa,” William Thiesen, Coast Guard Atlantic area historian, said in the statement.

A Coast Guard history of the Tampa gives details of its final voyage.

On September 17, 1918, the ship began convoy duty in the Atlantic waters. But on September 26, the Tampa’s captain requested permission to leave the convoy it was escorting as his ship was running dangerously low on coal to power its boilers and needed to refuel.

Commanders granted the captain’s request, and the ship headed to a port in Wales at full speed around 4 p.m.

Around 8:15 p.m., it was spotted by the German sub UB-41 which fired a lone torpedo. The blast from the torpedo was followed by a secondary explosion, caused by either coal dust igniting or depth charges aboard the Tampa detonating, according to the Coast Guard history.

A plane sent out to search for the ship when it did not arrive at its destination found pieces of its wreckage the next day.

Aboard were 111 Coast Guardsmen, four US Navy sailors, and 16 Britons, including Royal Navy personnel and civilians.

The Coast Guardsmen came from all walks of life and regions of the US and included immigrants from Russia and Norway. Eleven of the lost crew were Black according to a Coast Guard history of the ship. They were the first minority Coast Guardsmen killed in combat.

“When the Tampa was lost with all hands in 1918, it left an enduring grief in our service,” Coast Guard commandant Adm. Kevin Lunday said in a statement. “Locating the wreck connects us to their sacrifice and reminds us that devotion that devotion to duty endures.”

The Coast Guard said it is developing plans to explore the wreck further using autonomous systems and robotics.

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SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (KEYT) - San Marcos girls beach volleyball had just three losses and two of them are to the top-ranked team in CIF-Southern Section Mira Costa.

The visiting Mustangs ended the Royals season with a 5-0 win in the CIF-SS Division 1 semifinals.

San Marcos finishes 24-3 on the year.

Despite the sweep many of the matches were competitive especially between the #1 teams.

The Royals duo of Cora Loomer/Evyn Miller pushed the Stanford-bound pairs of Ruby Cochrane/Olga Nikolaeva in a 3-set thriller.

Loomer, a UCLA-commit and San Jose State signee Miller had a couple of match points in the second set but were denied the win as they lost 21-19, 22-24, 17-19.

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By Sarah Ferris, Annie Grayer, Lauren Fox, CNN

(CNN) — Republicans will control Washington for at least six more months, but they’ve already lost control of one-half of Congress.

Marred by infighting in his razor-thin majority, Speaker Mike Johnson no longer has a functional majority in the House. GOP leaders are struggling to fulfill the chamber’s most basic role on issues from government funding to authorizing critical spy powers that President Donald Trump himself has demanded, all just months before a critical midterm election.

“We can’t really agree on much of anything,” Rep. Troy Nehls, a Republican from Texas, said on Wednesday as leadership was trying to convince members to clear a procedural hurdle on the House floor to move ahead on key priorities, including the surveillance program extension. “This is our time to actually pass conservative legislation. That the American people gave us the gavel. They gave us the White House. … They gave us the Senate. And we have squandered an enormous amount of time away. We’ve squandered these opportunities.”

Johnson has tried to blame Democrats for the chaos, but frustrations are rising inside the US Capitol and at the White House – with many pointing to the House disarray for prolonging a 75-day shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security that is threatening more chaos at airports in the coming weeks.

“The fact that this has gone on, what are we at? 70-something days? It’s a stunning testament to congressional dysfunction,” Rep. Kevin Kiley of California, an independent who formally left the party this year but still largely votes with the GOP.

And scrapped bills, venting behind closed doors and stalled floor activity this week has ratcheted up tensions in the conference.

On Wednesday alone, House GOP leaders held open a contentious procedural vote for three hours. They pulled one huge priority — the farm bill — from the floor and then brought it back hours later after a revolt from members. (“This place is insane,” Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky griped on X, when he learned of the switch.)

Late Wednesday evening, the House took a step forward in a GOP effort to fund immigration enforcement amid the ongoing DHS shutdown – a vote that succeeded but only after hours of arm twisting.

Johnson’s weakening grip on his members throws into doubt whether Trump and Hill GOP leaders will be able to deliver on any other major priorities ahead, including a funding package for the Iran war that could cost as much as $100 billion.

The speaker’s ability to keep his fractious House GOP in line was never simple in the smallest majority since the Great Depression. While he has tried to give his members space to work through their concerns, the mood in the chamber has dramatically soured in recent days. Republicans are coming to terms with Trump’s poor approval ratings, an unending war in the Middle East and spiking gas prices — with no apparent strategy in Congress to fix any of it.

Then there’s the group of increasingly rogue actors within the conference who are empowered in the narrow majority and seem willing to shirk both Trump and Johnson to achieve personal priorities — on top of a seemingly perpetual struggle with absences and ethics issues.

“Look, all it takes is two to shut this whole thing down,” House budget chief Jodey Arrington told CNN of the DHS funding standoff.

Rep. Steve Womack characterized the narrow majority as “chaos, that’s what we are.” “We are good at that,” the Arkansas Republican added.

Perhaps the biggest headache for leadership are hardliners like Rep. Anna Paulina Luna of Florida or Nancy Mace of South Carolina, who have elevated their personal profiles as they force the House to take tough votes and join groups willing to hold up procedural ones. Then t

By Joan Biskupic, CNN Chief Supreme Court Analyst

(CNN) — The Supreme Court’s decision Wednesday rolling back protections for Black and Latino voters marks another dramatic turn in the long-fought effort by conservative justices to reverse measures vital to overcoming America’s legacy of race discrimination.

The decision also marks a defining moment for the court under Chief Justice John Roberts, who declared soon after joining the bench in 2005, “the way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.”

Three years ago, the justices by the same 6-3 vote as Wednesday ended racial affirmative action in higher education admissions. The newest decision, which follows a series of rulings led by Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito restricting the reach of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, will reverberate deeper.

Taken as a whole, the pattern would mean fewer chances for minority voters to elect candidates of their choosing. That, in turn, would mean fewer opportunities for the voice of Blacks, Latinos, Native Americans and other minorities in government.

The gravity of such consequences and the entrenched divisions among the justices were clear as the opinion was announced from the courtroom bench.

As Roberts first revealed that the case of Louisiana v. Callais would be delivered, he said Alito had the majority opinion. Roberts, whose seniority gives him the assignment power, had turned the case over to a colleague with whom he has long worked on racial issues.

Belying the historic nature of the decision, Alito began in his usual dry tone, detailing the lower court action in the long running Louisiana case, which began with redistricting after the 2020 census. He related the intricacies of the VRA’s disputed Section 2 that prohibits discrimination and recounted the evolution of standards for assessing when Black and other minority voters may succeed in a challenge to district maps that dilute their voting power.

Such dilution can arise, for example, from legislative “cracking” and “packing” methods – that is, dispersing or concentrating Black voters among districts to weaken their overall voting power.

No longer would challengers be able to point to the effects of vote dilution, Alito said. Rather, they would have to show that state legislators likely had discriminatory purpose or, as Alito spelled out in his opinion, that “circumstances give rise to a strong inference that intentional discrimination occurred.”

Alito’s bench statement and written opinion on behalf of the six conservative justices leaned heavily on the view of Roberts’ 2013 decision in Shelby County v. Holder that voting safeguards enshrined in 1965 were no longer essential to America.

“(V)ast social change has occurred throughout the country and particularly in the South…” Alito wrote. Adapting a line from Roberts’ 2013 decision, he added: “As this Court has recognized, ‘things have changed dramatically’ in the decades since the passage of the Voting Rights Act.”

When Justice Elena Kagan, who sits next to Alito on the elevated bench, then spoke for the three dissenting liberals, she referred explicitly and emphatically to Shelby County and the line of cases eviscerating voting rights protections.

“This court’s project to destroy the Voting Rights Act is now complete,” she declared. Of the act, she said, “It was born of the literal blo