By Terry Ward

Hollywood, Florida (CNN) — On a sunny and warm late-February day at Richard’s Motel in Hollywood, Florida, guests mostly from Quebec and Ontario dipped into the swimming pool and gathered for morning coffee and conversation in a courtyard the hotel’s Quebecois owner calls the Parc de l’Amitié, or Friendship Park.

The motel’s aesthetic mixes Florida and the far north. Here a snow man statue and wooden fence covered with Canadian license plates, there a sea turtle statue and a tiki bar.

Only one thing seemed off on this balmy high-season morning — a Vacancy sign illuminated to the right of the motel’s office door.

Come winter, beach towns like this one dotting the Atlantic Coast stretch of Florida surrounding Fort Lauderdale have long brimmed with French Canadian tourists and other snowbirds who arrive for warmth and sunshine.

Alongside Florida’s famous beaches, they enjoy Canadian-owned restaurants serving some of their favorite foods, shows featuring some of Quebec’s biggest homegrown stars who fly in to perform and other glimmers of home that have sprung up in the area.

But this winter wasn’t what Richard’s Motel owner Richard Clavet and other hoteliers in the area had hoped for. Destinations like Greater Fort Lauderdale, long a draw for those seeking a winter warm-up, illustrate how conflicted many once-frequent Florida visitors feel about visiting now — and what a decline in visits means for local businesses.

“Over the years, I’ve seen a lot of issues. And surprisingly, we were expecting the Trump administration to come in — more prosperity, everything will be going great,” said Clavet, a dual Canadian and US citizen who said he voted for Trump in 2024.

February 2025 was one of his busiest months at the seven motels and extended-stay properties he owns in the area that largely target French Canadians, he said.

But when the tariffs on Canadian goods took effect in early March last year, Clavet said, the cancellations started rolling in — including from repeat guests who, come April, often reserve for the following winter before they’ve even started their drives back north to Canada.

“A lot of people started to cancel and they stopped reserving. A lot of them were, I would say, polite, and not necessarily saying their reason for cancelling, saying they got sick or making excuses instead,” Clavet said.

But some of his past guests were more honest about their motivations.

“One of them cancelled and we called him back and said, ‘Sir, you’re leaving $1,000 on the table, the $1000 deposit.’ And he was very firm. He said, ‘I’m not going over there with that dictator of yours,’” said Clavet, who called last spring a “disaster” due to all the cancelled bookings at his properties.

“The impact of Trump’s policies — or the perception of them — was enormous last March and April,” he said.

This winter season, too, saw a storm of cancellations as well as loyal guests from years past failing to re-book, said Clavet, with some opting to vacation in places like the Dominican Republic and Mexico instead.

He put all his efforts into marketing, offering special prices and posting photos on his Richard’s Motel Family of Lodgings Facebook page of guests enjoying the weekly “Soirée Hot-Dog” grill-outs or Bingo night gatherings under the palm trees in the Parc de l’Amitié, while it dumped snow up north.

“I’m working really hard to overcome the effect, but it’s serious,” said Clavet. He did manage to drum up some business and felt “satisfied” by his efforts.

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Si se requirieron cuatro años para poder reunir a todas las estrellas de la serie “Euphoria” para filmar la tercera temporada, no hubo tal problema el martes para ver juntos al elenco en la alfombra roja del TCL Chinese Theatre de Hollywood, para la premier de la tercera temporada.

La tercera temporada de “Euphoria” se estrena este domingo en HBO. (HBO, al igual que CNN en Español, forma parte de Warner Bros. Discovery).

En la alfombra roja de la premier estuvieron presentes Zendaya, Jacob Elordi, Sydney Sweeney, Hunter Schafer, Maude Apatow, Nika King, Natasha Lyonne, Brian Grazer, Da’Vine Joy Randolph y Alexa Demie, entre otros.

A continuación se ofrecen imágenes de las estrellas en la premier de la temporada 3 de “Euphoria”.

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Una supervisora ​​de la Administración de Seguridad del Transporte, que sufre de insomnio y estrés desde que comenzó el cierre parcial del Gobierno a mediados de febrero, estaba despierta a las 3:00 de la madrugada del 30 de marzo cuando recibió en su teléfono la alerta que llevaba semanas esperando con impaciencia.

Le habían ingresado su sueldo en su cuenta bancaria, el primero en semanas.

Pero en cuanto vio la cantidad, pensó: “¿Dónde está el resto?”. Le faltaban al menos US$ 1.000 dólares de atrasos, lo que empañó su alivio. Calculó que los pocos miles de dólares que sí recibió apenas cubrían la mitad de sus gastos pendientes.

“El dinero se esfumó en cuestión de días, apenas alcanzaba para pagar las facturas que podía cubrir”, declaró la supervisora del Aeropuerto Internacional de Tampa, quien lleva una década trabajando en la agencia. “Todavía tengo que llamar a todos mis acreedores y hablar con diferentes personas para decirles: ‘Oigan, denme un poco de tiempo’. Es ridículo”.

La supervisora, que solicitó el anonimato al hablar de su trabajo, es una de las decenas de miles de empleados de la TSA que recibieron al menos parte del pago retroactivo que se les adeudaba después de que el presidente Donald Trump ordenara al Departamento de Seguridad Nacional pagar a los trabajadores de la TSA.

Esta medida se produjo después de que el Congreso no lograra llegar a un acuerdo para financiar la agencia, dejando a los empleados de la TSA trabajando sin retribución.

Como consecuencia, miles de empleados dejaron de ir a trabajar, lo que provocó largas filas en muchos aeropuertos estadounidenses. Trump pagó a los trabajadores con fondos provenientes de su amplio paquete de medidas de política interna, que firmó el verano pasado.

No está claro cuándo terminará el cierre parcial del Gobierno, que según la administración es el más largo de la historia, ya que el Congreso se fue de receso de dos semanas en Washington sin aprobar nuevos fondos para el departamento.

Trump ordenó que se les pagara a todos los empleados del DHS, ampliando una directiva anterior.

Cuando el Congreso regrese a Washington la próxima semana, se espera que la Cámara de Representantes considere una medida de financiamiento parcial que originalmente fue rechazada antes del receso.

El presidente de la Cámara, Mike Johnson, anunció un plan de dos vías junto con el líder de la mayoría del Senado, John Thune, la semana pasada.

Sin embargo, no está claro cuándo, o si, la Cámara de Representantes aprobará el proyecto de ley que inicialmente habían rechazado, y la adopción de cualquier proyecto de ley con una agenda más amplia será una prueba importante para los líderes republicanos que se enfrentan a márgenes ajustados en el Congreso a solo unos meses de las elecciones de mitad de mandato.

Por ahora, los trabajadores se encuentran en una situación de incertidumbre, sin ninguna garantía de q

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By Jessie Yeung, CNN

(CNN) — After a month and a half of spiraling conflict in the Middle East, the United States and Iran agreed to a two-week ceasefire on Tuesday – less than two hours before US President Donald Trump’s deadline, after which he had promised to wipe out a “whole civilization.”

That threat, which critics warned could be a war crime if carried out, appears to have been staved off for now at the 11th hour. But there remains a gulf between the two countries, who each portrayed the temporary truce as a victory for their nations.

The ceasefire is a starting point for further negotiations, and it remains to be seen what final terms may be included in a proposal to definitively end a war that has upended the Middle East and caused a historic global oil disruption.

Here’s what we know.

What have the US and Israel said?

Trump announced the ceasefire in a Truth Social post, saying it was made on the condition that Iran agree to reopen the critical Strait of Hormuz, through which a fifth of the world’s oil flows.

The ceasefire had been mediated by Pakistan’s prime minister and its military chief, he said. Iran had put forth a 10-point proposal, which the US views as “a workable basis on which to negotiate,” Trump added.

The next two weeks will allow a final agreement to be drawn up, he said.

As the ceasefire took effect on Wednesday, US Vice President JD Vance described it as a “fragile truce” that had taught him a lot about Iran.

In an interview with AFP news agency Tuesday, Trump described the deal as “total and complete victory.” But he would not say whether he would fulfill his prior threats to destroy Iran’s civilian infrastructure if Tehran reneged on the agreement, only saying: “You’re going to have to see.”

And in a later Truth Social post just past midnight, he said the US would be “helping with the traffic buildup in the Strait of Hormuz,” adding: “Big money will be made.”

US sources told CNN that the Trump administration is preparing for potential in-person negotiations, likely in Islamabad – where Pakistan’s prime minister has invited both sides to send delegations.

Israel is part of the ceasefire and will also suspend bombing against Iran, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said.

But it also claimed Lebanon is not part of the ceasefire – contradicting Pakistan’s prime minister, who said it was. Trump made no mention of Lebanon in his statement.

What has Iran said?

Iran’s Foreign Minister, Abbas Araghchi, said that if attacks against Iran stop, Iranian operations will cease as well.

The country’s military will coordinate safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz during the ceasefire, he added in a post on X.

Iran’s semi-official Tasnim News Agency reported that Iran and Oman plan to charge transit f

By Don Riddell, CNN

(CNN) — Jack Nicklaus says that he gets chills when he drives up Magnolia Lane at the Augusta National Golf Club, and I know exactly how he feels about the hallowed grounds where The Masters is played every April. Like most of the visitors to Augusta, I’m here for the golf, but the tightly manicured landscape, bursting with vibrant colors resembling a Vincent Van Gogh palette, always take my breath away.

If I’m ever lucky enough to play it, this is a golf course where I wouldn’t mind losing my ball from time to time – I’d want to explore every last piece of it.

Stepping away from the hustle and bustle of modern-day life and entering through the main gates just off Washington Road is like walking through the wardrobe into Narnia. Etched into the grounds of a former horticultural nursery, Augusta National has never forgotten its roots.

Back in the 1930s, the founders of the club worked with Louis Alphonse Berckmans, son of the nursery’s late owner, to adorn each of the 18 holes with a distinctive species and since then some 80,000 plants and 350 different varieties have been added.

Walking the course is now a botanist’s dream, almost a century in the making. If you can catch it in the air, the apricot scent of the tea olives on the opening hole is seductive, and if they’re flowering, the dogwoods, peaches, crab apples, magnolias and camelias are a feast for the eyes.

By the time you reach the 13th hole, where many a player’s journey towards the green jacket goes off the rails, there is something to help keep everything in perspective: a breathtaking bank of some 1,600 flowering azalea shrubs splashed all the way from tee to green – it’s a stunning reminder of the world’s natural beauty.

Photojournalist John McAfee covered 33 Masters tournaments, but on one occasion, he was assigned to cover the Final Four instead. In a phone call that’s since become CNN Sports lore, he rang the team at Augusta, lowered his voice to a hush in case he was overheard, and enquired, “Are the azaleas pretty?”

It’s a story that always gets a laugh, but I now feel that same attraction to the majesty of the course as he did. During my years at Augusta, I’ve overheard many conversations among the patrons and found myself silently agreeing with their sentiment, “I wish I could get the azaleas in my yard to look like that.”

This year, I said it out loud, and a patron next to me offered a response: “Because you don’t have an undersoil heating system warming the roots of your plants.” Augusta National Golf Club has never spoken about how it is seemingly able to manipulate the flowering of the buds on its property, but for many – no matter how far-fetched the notion might be – some kind of botanical sorcery is assumed.

Despite bearing a name that would be perfectly suited for Augusta National, Justin Rose admits that he’s not much of a gardener. The three-time runner-up told CNN Sports that he’s rarely home enough to take care of anything he might have planted.

“It would not be the greatest looking garden if I was in full charge,” he said. However, he notes he always thinks of his mom when he sees all the flowers, and he can’t help noticing the beauty.

“Whenever I come back here, I think of her,” Rose said. “It’s a spectacle, right? The whole place and the whole environment and the whole week, the whole thing is a pretty, beau