By Auzinea Bacon, CNN

(CNN) — Emilie Nasseh, a 30-year-old living in Manhattan, has made up to $2,000 a month through an unconventional side hustle: renting her clothes and accessories.

Nasseh uses Pickle, a peer-to-peer clothing rental app where users share their wardrobes for profit. Some lenders may also list their clothes for sale. Among Nasseh’s most popular rentals were handbags, including a Chanel mini wallet that has been rented out nearly every week over the past year.

“I’m very happy to allow others to use items in my closet who haven’t had availability to that luxury. I’m not using (the item), so it’s kind of a win-win scenario for everyone,” she said, noting that she may make $500 during a slow month.

Nasseh is one of tens of thousands of Millennials and Gen Zers who use clothing rental apps such as Pickle, which launched in 2022. It’s not a new concept, but unlike Rent the Runway and other clothing rental apps, Pickle doesn’t require a subscription and it’s supplied by users’ closets.

From Airbnb to car rental site Turo, there’s been a growth of share economies where people can earn money by lending out their belongings. It’s signaling that Americans feel increasing economic pressure from the hiring slowdown of recent college graduates and rising costs of everyday essentials, among other factors.

There are more than 230,000 items listed on Pickle, spanning more than 2,000 brands — from high-end luxury like Chanel and Louis Vuitton to mid-tier brands such as Realisation Par and House of CB, according to Pickle. Top lenders average more than $3,000 a month, according to the company.

For Nasseh, the side hustle mostly funds necessities: everyday home items or rent. While others may buy more clothes with their extra income, she says she doesn’t “have that luxury.”

The era of side hustles

The costs of social outings can add up, and some young adults are compromising by renting clothes instead of buying high-end luxuries, said Thomaï Serdari, a New York University marketing professor.

“Millennials trained us to think about the sharing economy … and now Gen Z is taking it one step further, because Gen Z is both cash-strapped, has a greater appetite for luxury consumption, and they believe in a hustler kind of mentality,” she told CNN.

Over a quarter of American adults take on side jobs, though it’s at its lowest percentage since 2017, according to a July survey from Bank Rate. And Gen Zers (34%) take on side hustles more frequently than other age groups.

Lauren Baldinger, 24, of New York City, not only lends her outfits on Pickle, she also rents and sells handmade beaded bags from her business, Lolo. One black bag can be bought on the app for $148 or rented for $20.

She estimated that she earns between $200 and $300 on an average day. She often buys clothes solely for renting on Pickle. For example, one dress from Italian luxury brand Missoni retails for $2,750, but she rents it for $295, eventually offsetting the expense.

“I view it as a business, so I have to keep investing to keep my closet relevant,” she said.

Battling overconsumption

Pickle’s co-founders, Julia O’Mara and Brian McMahon, told CNN that circulating clothes among users has fed into a trend of avoiding overconsumption or turning to fast fashion.

“They wa

By Andy Rose, CNN

(CNN) — It seemed like the solution to Elaine Traverse’s financial problems, and a dog desperately needing a potty break led her to it.

“I saw this trail, so I went up there and parked, and he took off running,” Traverse said.

Traverse, who is disabled and can’t walk long distances, says she called her adult son to come and see what had upset her pet in a secluded area of Canada’s Heart’s Content, Newfoundland.

They had found the remains of Amelia Earhart. Or at least, the remains of a statue that had been the talk of the small neighboring town of Harbour Grace for months.

“Oh my God,” Traverse said to herself.

The statue of Earhart – the Kansas native who disappeared without a trace while flying over the Pacific Ocean in 1937 – had a mysterious disappearance of its own.

It had been standing proudly in a Harbour Grace park since 2007, built with a private donation from a prominent local family as a monument to Earhart’s first solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean 75 years earlier, which began right there in one of Canada’s easternmost communities.

When the bronze figure disappeared on the morning of April 24, town officials thought someone most likely stole it to sell the metal for scrap, and they put together private donations for a $25,000 reward to find it.

Traverse, who said she had fallen on hard times, saw an opportunity in August as she found herself standing several miles away from Harbour Grace and looking over Earhart’s figure cut into five pieces, still intact.

“I called … the mayor at that time, and I said, ‘I was wondering if the reward was still being offered,’” Traverse told CNN.

It was, but Traverse said the mayor declined her offer to deliver the statue’s pieces herself. Several days later, she was referred to an investigator with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, who made it clear she shouldn’t expect a fast cheque.

“First thing she said was, ‘Do you want to speak to a lawyer? Because you could be arrested for this,’” Traverse said, still shocked by the implication.

Earhart is part of town’s much larger aviation history

The statue of the famous aviator – wearing a leather flight jacket and thigh-high laced boots – stood proudly in the Spirit of Harbour Grace Park, a roadside pull off overlooking the bay. The park also features a retired World War II-era DC-3 passenger plane named after the town.

The park is a visible sign of the community’s pride in its unique place in aviation history. Earhart’s voyage was one of 20 transatlantic flights attempted from the town’s bucolic airstrip.

The disappearance of the statue was a shock for locals and aviation buffs from around the world.

“It’s heartbreaking to share that someone, under the cover of darkness, has stolen the statue of Amelia Earhart and one of the plaques commemorating her achievement,” The Ninety-Nines, an international organization of women pilots, wrote in a Facebook post. “Who would do such a thing?”

The only evidence of the theft that has been made public is surveillance video from a gas station next to the park.

In the footage, distant headlights can be seen pulling up to the statue’s location, followed moments later by screeching tires

Por Sophie Tanno y Kosta Gak, CNN

El presidente de Ucrania, Volodymyr Zelensky, pidió este domingo consultas con socios europeos tras las conversaciones entre funcionarios estadounidenses y ucranianos en Florida la semana pasada.

“Existe una sensación general de que, después del trabajo de nuestro equipo diplomático en Estados Unidos, valdrá la pena mantener consultas con un círculo más amplio de socios europeos”, escribió en Telegram.

Continuó: “Nos estamos moviendo con suficiente rapidez, y nuestro equipo en Florida ha estado trabajando con la parte estadounidense. También se invitó a representantes europeos”.

El enviado del presidente estadounidense Donald Trump, Steve Witkoff, y su yerno Jared Kushner se reunieron con una delegación ucraniana en Miami el viernes para seguir discutiendo un plan de paz redactado por Estados Unidos.

El principal negociador ruso, Kirill Dmitriev, llegó a Florida el sábado por la tarde para reunirse con Witkoff y Kushner y mantener conversaciones sobre un posible fin de la guerra en Ucrania. En una actualización más tarde ese mismo sábado, Dmitriev dijo que las conversaciones estaban “avanzando de manera constructiva”.

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By Hannah Keyser, CNN

(CNN) — Jamie Moyer is back in his hometown of Souderton, Pennsylvania, for his father’s 95th birthday party. He says it was a smashing success, filled with people from Jim Moyer’s near-century in the Philadelphia suburb.

So, maybe, the secret to his son’s longevity – and other professional athletes with similarly incredible staying power – is just really great genetics.

Lately, sports fans have been abuzz with the news of practically geriatric, at least by athletic standards, comebacks. Lindsey Vonn won a World Cup race after coming out of retirement at 41, only to be topped in terms of sensational headlines by 44-year-old Philip Rivers serving as the Indianapolis Colts quarterback nearly five years after taking his last NFL snap.

Stories about middle-aged athletes are captivating. To layperson members of a similar age cohort, they straddle a tantalizing paradox of relatability and ultimate physical otherness. Their grey hairs and perhaps softer physiques, things that many of us will be forced to reckon with over time, are juxtaposed with an athleticism that seems superhuman to someone acutely aware of how much even just sleeping wrong can hurt after a certain age.

Actually, it turns out, that stuff plagues the 40-something pros as well.

“It’s the traveling, the hours you keep when you’re traveling. It’s the eating and sleeping in different beds and waking up with a crick in your neck or a stiff back or whatever it might be because you had a bad night of sleep, or half the night you were sleeping on a plane before you got to a hotel,” Moyer told CNN Sports. “As you get older, your body doesn’t accept that as well.”

Moyer, an affable southpaw who didn’t throw very hard – or even especially deceptively – but managed a 25-year big-league career, holds the distinction of being the oldest pitcher to record a win in Major League Baseball. It was, naturally, in his last season, when he made 10 starts for the Colorado Rockies in 2012 at 49 years old.

Satchel Paige, whose Hall-of-Fame career spanned the Negro Leagues and Major League Baseball, is generally recognized as the oldest pitcher ever in baseball for his three shutout innings thrown as a 58-year-old in 1965. But Moyer’s understated productivity into his late 40s is essentially unprecedented and unreplicated.

A certain level of defiance

Perhaps even more remarkable than that age number is that Moyer missed the preceding season while recovering from double surgery to repair his flexor pronator and his ulnar collateral ligament.

Moyer remembers when, after his age 47 season, he met with the doctor who would give a second opinion about his injuries.

“‘I can fix both of these, you’re not going to play anymore, you’re 47 years old,’” Moyer remembers the doctor saying. “He kept going and I just kind of let him talk. And he got done, and I looked at him, and I was like, ‘No, I’m gonna try to play again.’”

He asked the doctor if there was anything, medically, preventing him from going through the rehab process and returning to the field.

“No, but people your age don’t do this,” Moyer says the doctor told him.

Vonn faced a similar incredulity when she made it clear she was planning a comeback less than a year after a knee replacement surgery. In her

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This July, a man in Utah set his home on fire, killing himself, his 33-year-old partner, Jaimar Bravo Gil, and their children, police say. The family had moved to the U.S. from Venezuela, and Bravo Gil’s relatives said her partner had a history of violence, but she had kept silent about most of the abuse for fear of being deported. She was not alone. At least two other women killed by their intimate partners this summer reportedly did not seek police help because they also feared deportation.

A growing chorus of attorneys, advocates and members of law enforcement are warning that the terror that has taken hold in immigrant communities is causing some people to remain in abusive relationships rather than risk deportation and separation from their families. While undocumented victims have always faced barriers in escaping abuse, experts say Trump administration policies have left them much more vulnerable.

The Department of Homeland Security did not respond to a request for comment.

Here are six changes impacting immigrant victims of domestic violence, The Marshall Project reports:

In January, DHS rolled back protections that kept immigration agents from entering “sensitive locations,” including domestic violence shelters and hospitals. DHS also began allowing enforcement at courthouses.

These changes have caused some domestic violence victims to think twice before seeking medical help, moving into a shelter, or seeking an order of protection, experts say.

There have been reports from across the country of immigration officers arresting people at courthouses, sometimes violently. A recent survey of more than 170 attorneys and advocates for immigrant survivors of domestic and sexual violence found that 70% said their clients had concerns about going to court for a matter related to their abuser.

Some jurisdictions are pushing back. In October, the top judge in Coo