By Georgiana Ralphs, CNN

(CNN) — From the shorelines of Perth in southwestern Australia, a towering blue hill can be seen jutting out of the horizon. Some days it seems so close you could touch it. Other days it’s hidden by mist or passing ships.

“Sometimes it wants to be seen and sometimes it wants to hide in the shadows,” says Glen Stasiuk, lecturer at Murdoch University and director of the 2014 documentary “Wadjemup: Black Prison — White Playground.” “It’s this entity. It has a heartbeat.”

Rottnest Island, or Wadjemup, as it’s known by the local Aboriginal Noongar people, lies 19 kilometers (11.8 miles) off the coast of Fremantle. More than 800,000 people visit each year to enjoy its white sand beaches, crystal-clear waters, and native quokka: an adorable, Instagram-famous marsupial that smiles in selfies.

It’s a spiritual place for Wadjemup’s traditional custodians, explains Len Collard, emeritus professor at the University of Western Australia and Noongar Elder. “In the Noongar story,” he says, “when people die, their spirit leaves their body and travels out west to the islands, to the place of ghosts.”

“Wadjemup was always an abode of the spirits,” Collard explains, “but it definitely became a more spiritual place after the colonial regime, after it became the site of Australia’s largest number of Aboriginal deaths in custody.”

Wadjemup as Aboriginal prison

Aboriginal Australians are one of the oldest continuous civilizations on the planet, having been the custodians of the Australian land, seas and skies, or “Country” as they call it, for at least 65,000 years. Britain claimed the east of Australia in 1770 and its First Fleet of largely convict settlers arrived in 1788. During the colonial period that followed, violent conflicts broke out between the local Aboriginal people and the British.

Wadjemup became a prison for Aboriginal boys and men in 1838. The first prisoners arrived by boat, sleeping in a coastal cave as they mined limestone and built the prison itself.

The majority of inmates were accused of stealing livestock or flour rations, says Stasiuk. He explains that the system was already “completely foreign” to the men and boys, who were charged, arrested and sentenced in a language they didn’t understand. Suddenly, they found themselves sent away to an island, unsure if or when they would see their loved ones again.

Some inmates travelled long and traumatizing distances, including from the Kimberley, an Outback region more than 2,000 kilometers (1,243 miles) away. Stasiuk says those from the desert had never even seen the sea. In a practice not uncommon for the time, according to Collard, many were transported while enchained by the neck, arms and legs.

Once on Wadjemup, prisoners were forced into harsh labor as they mined materials and constructed the island’s infrastructure. “The jetty, the cottages, the prison, the governor’s house,” says Stasiuk, “all this was built by Aboriginal prisoners.” Collard says this construction helped the colony justify its expense in setting up the prison, as the Aboriginal people could be further used as cheap labor on future projects after leaving the island.

Life in their cells was no easier, and the prison was overcrowded and rife with disease. These brutal conditions were worsened at the hands of Henry Vincent, one particularly “barbaric” superintendent, according to Stasiuk. “Vincent had one eye and came from the Napoleonic wars,” he explains. “He would chain men up in their cells, beat

Por Hanna Park y Sandra Gonzalez, CNN

Robert Carradine, el actor conocido por sus papeles en “The Long Riders,” “Revenge of the Nerds” y la serie de televisión “Lizzie McGuire,” falleció a los 71 años, según informó su empresa de representación.

“Es con profunda tristeza que debemos compartir que nuestro querido padre, abuelo, tío y hermano Robert Carradine ha fallecido,” dijo la familia en un comunicado a Deadline.

“En un mundo que puede parecer tan oscuro, Bobby siempre fue un faro de luz para todos los que le rodeaban. Estamos desolados por la pérdida de esta hermosa alma y queremos reconocer la valiente lucha de Bobby contra su batalla de casi dos décadas con el trastorno bipolar”, decía el comunicado familiar.

“Esperamos que su camino pueda servir para arrojar luz y fomentar que se enfrente el estigma que acompaña a las enfermedades mentales”, añadió.

Keith Carradine, hermano de Robert, dijo a Deadline que la familia quería compartir la lucha de su hermano con el trastorno bipolar, afirmando: “Queremos que la gente lo sepa, y no hay vergüenza en ello”.

“Es una enfermedad que pudo más que él, y quiero celebrarlo por su lucha contra ella, y celebrar su hermosa alma,” dijo. “Era profundamente talentoso, y lo extrañaremos todos los días.”

Nacido el 24 de marzo de 1954, Robert Carradine fue hijo de John Carradine (1906-1988), el gran actor de caracter que participó en películas de John Ford, como “Stagecoach” (1939) y “The Grapes of Wrath” (1940) antes de especializarse en películas de horror.

Los hijos del veterano John Carradine también siguieron los pasos de su padre y se hicieron actores. Además de Robert, la dinastía familiar incluyó a David Carradine “Kung Fu”, “Kill Bill”) y Keith Carradine (“Nashville”, “Pretty Baby” y las series “Deadwood” y “Fargo”, entre otras), quien ganó el premio Oscar en 1976 a mejor canción original por “I’m Easy” de la película “Nashville”.

Otro hermano del actor, Christopher Carradine, fue exvicepresidente de Walt Disney Imagineering, la empresa que diseña las actracciones de los parques temáticos Disney.

Los tres hermanos Carradine trabajaron juntos en el western “The Long Riders” (1980), en el que interpretaron a los hermanos Younger. De hecho, todos los personajes que eran hermanos en la películas fueron interpretados por actores hermanos en la vida real.

Dentro del género western se ubicó uno de los primeros éxitos en el cine de Robert Carradine, con apenas 18 años: “The Cowboys” (1972), protagonizada por John Wayne. El canal de YouTube A Word on Westerns, especializado en este género de películas, entrevistó a Robert Carradine en 2022, quien contó anécdotas del rodaje.

Pero Carradine alcanzó su mayor popularidad por su papel de Lewis Skolnick, el líder idealista de una fraternidad de inadaptados sociales, en la película de 1984 “Revenge of the Nerds”, una comedia de estudio que generó varias secuelas.

Dos décadas después, encontró una nueva generación de admiradores al interpretar a Sam McGuire en la popular serie de televisión de Disney, “Lizzie McGuire” (2001-2004) y en la p

By Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN

(CNN) — The government is on the hook to refund $134 billion – and counting – worth of tariff revenue collected from President Donald Trump’s most sweeping tariffs, which were rendered illegal by the Supreme Court last week.

How much of that will consumers, who paid for steep tariffs via higher prices, get back?

Almost certainly nothing.

That’s because consumers paid for tariffs indirectly: They’re mostly not the ones making the actual payment to the government. When – and perhaps if – any funds are returned, they’ll go to what’s known as the importer of record, i.e., the party that paid the initial tariff bill. Think: Costco, Walmart, Target, etc.

For now, refunds are largely theoretical. The Trump administration and the Supreme Court have given little clarity about how they would be processed. The only thing you can be sure of is that it will be a lengthy process, with Trump telling reporters on Friday that it could take up to five years to accomplish.

What you paid

Businesses ate the bulk of the tariff cost themselves. But they passed some of that expense on to you. Consumers covered around a one-quarter of their tariff bills through higher prices charged, according to research published by the Harvard Business School’s Pricing Lab.

In total, the Tax Foundation estimates tariffs increased the average American household’s tax payments by $1,000 last year.

Facing pressure from voters to improve affordability, the Trump administration has for months been floating $2,000 tariff rebate checks to help defray the cost of tariffs borne by consumers.

Those rebate checks, which would require approval from Congress, would not be refunds on tariff payments – they’re effectively stimulus checks to help boost the economy that’s been harmed by the higher border taxes. It’s not clear if the Supreme Court’s decision jeopardized those potential rebate checks.

What is clear: The vast majority of consumers haven’t paid tariff costs directly, so the Trump administration doesn’t owe them tariff refunds.

Businesses probably won’t pay you back, either

Costco is one of the thousands of businesses that sued the US government ahead of the Supreme Court verdict, in an effort to secure a refund. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent mused in an interview last month that Costco’s customers likely wouldn’t see a cent of any potential refunds the company gets. Regardless, more companies are likely to follow Costco’s example, with FedEx on Monday filing a case against the Trump administration, marking the first major corporation to do so after the Supreme Court ruling.

Nothing prevents businesses from doling out a portion of refunds they secure to customers. But given they probably would have paid handsome legal fees to get them and that they shouldered the majority of the tariff costs, it’s more or less a pipe dream.

Consumers may see relief in other forms, though.

While David Suk, CEO of The Baby’s Brew, a portable baby bottle warmer, is skeptical he’ll see any amount of the $80,000 in tariff payments his company made since Trump’s sweeping tariffs took effect last year, in the event he does, he plans to lower prices.

If he gets any money back, it wouldn’t represent the overall cost of tariffs, since that also includes substantial front-loading he did to get ahead of tariffs and

By Katherine Koretski

(CNN) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s new book, “Young Man in a Hurry,” details his political triumphs and downfalls, personal relationships and times of struggle.

Newsom doesn’t say in the book, which comes out Tuesday, whether he’ll run for president – though he’s been open in interviews about his consideration of a 2028 run. Instead, he lays out personal stories and addresses controversies that would likely come up if he were to launch a bid.

Here’s a look at some of the personal moments he addresses:

A sometimes turbulent childhood

Newsom describes his upbringing as sometimes turbulent.

He explains that his parents, who married young, lived mostly apart during his childhood. After multiple failed political runs, his father, William Newsom, moved to Lake Tahoe, California, leaving him and his sister Hilary to be raised mostly by his mother, Tessa Menzies Newsom.

Moving around many times, he says they often lived with strangers as his mother worked multiple jobs. Newsom also explains how he struggled academically during his childhood and was eventually diagnosed with dyslexia.

The governor’s mother died at the age of 55, planning her own assisted suicide after suffering from breast cancer. He describes being at her bedside during her last moments, holding her hand “tighter and tighter and sobbing.”

Relationships, past and present

Newsom is married to Jennifer Siebel Newsom, a filmmaker and actress with whom he shares four children. The two were set up on a blind date by mutual friends. In the book, Newsom reveals that in 2020, at the age of 46, Siebel Newsom experienced a miscarriage with their fifth child and received emergency lifesaving surgery in California.

Newsom also talks about his first marriage to Kimberly Guilfoyle, who later dated Donald Trump Jr. and is now serving as US ambassador to Greece. He writes that the two were introduced by friend and business partner, Billy Getty, ahead of a vacation to Hawaii. The pair was married for four years but mostly lived separately as Newsom was mayor of San Francisco and Guilfoyle was pursuing a media career on Court TV.

In the summer of 2004, the couple appeared in Harper’s Bazaar magazine in an article titled, “The New Kennedys,” posing for a picture of the two lying on a carpet.

“The critics mocked it, but none more than me,” Newsom writes.

The two divorced after four years of marriage and parted “as amicably as two people could,” he writes.

Following his divorce from Guilfoyle, Newsom found himself wrapped in a political scandal when he had what he calls a brief affair with a staffer and wife of his deputy chief of staff, Alex Tourk. Ruby Rippey-Tourk revealed during a 12-step program meeting that the two had an affair and Newsom was forced to comment publicly. He spoke on camera about the affair, saying, “Everything you’ve heard and read is true. And I’m deeply sorry about that.”

Newsom reveals in his book that with time and reflection, that what he had done was, “the worst betrayal of my life.”

When he pushed for legalizing same-sex marriage before many other Democrats

In 2004, Newsom was invited to former President George W. Bush’s State of the Union address, in which Bush criticized “activist judges” for redefining marriage. Newsom, who was mayor of San Francisco at the time, wanted to be “bold” regarding the topic when returning to California. Newsom allowed same-sex couples to get married at City Hall for 28 days. Over 4,000 couples were married, including Read more

By Alexandra Skores, Pete Muntean, CNN

Washington (CNN) — The House of Representatives is set to consider whether a collision avoidance system that supporters say could have prevented last year’s deadly midair collision near Washington should be required on every plane in the US.

Sixty-seven people were killed on January 29, 2025, when a US Army helicopter on a training flight collided with an American Airlines regional jet, operated by PSA Airlines, as it was landing at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.

Most aircraft are already required to automatically send out signals known as ADS-B (Automatic Dependent Surveillance – Broadcast), which include their location and other data so they can be tracked. The American regional plane was sending out the signal, but Army helicopters did not transmit the data. Neither pilot was able to receive information from the other because their aircraft were only equipped to transmit, not receive, ADS-B information.

The ROTOR Act, introduced in the Senate last year, would require all aircraft transmitting to also receive ADS-B data, called “ADS-B In,” so pilots could use it to look for other aircraft.

“It is clear from our investigation that had the crew had ADS-B In flight 5342 would have had a 59 second alert versus the 19 seconds they had … which was ineffective in preventing the crash,” National Transportation Safety Board Chair Jennifer Homendy told CNN Monday.

The bill would also require military aircraft to use ADS-B to transmit their location in most situations, including during training flights, which the Department of Defense currently opposes.

A House committee is proposing a competing bill, called the ALERT Act, which it says is a wide-ranging measure to address all 50 issues the NTSB brought up in its report.

“The best way to serve and honor the victims and their families is by thoughtfully addressing the broad range of safety issues raised by the now-complete accident investigation, and that’s just what the ALERT Act does,” said House transportation committee chair Sam Graves, a Missouri Republican. “The ROTOR Act touches on only two of the NTSB’s 50 recommendations and provides an overly prescriptive approach to mandating a specific technology, which is still largely under development, in a manner that can prove burdensome to some operators and create barriers to its adoption.”

But the NTSB says many of the measures fall short of addressing their concerns.

“We stand ready to work with the House but saying that they implement our recommendations right now is completely false. It does not implement our recommendations in many, many areas,” Homendy said. “Claiming falsely that they implement our recommendations is not right and that does make me angry.”

The ALERT Act, would not require ADS-B on every aircraft, specifically having a rulemaking committee look at “collision mitigation” technology and would exempt many aircraft, like those commonly flown by private pilots.

The act also requires some aircraft be equipped with technology “capable” of receiving ADS-B transmissions, but does not require they actually to use it.

Military aircraft under the ALERT Act would also be allowed to fly without broadcasting their location. The House committee proposing the ALERT Act, says it is a wide-ranging bill that addresses all 50 of ssuesissues the NTSB brought up in its report.

Homendy said she hopes the committee will work with the NTSB to make the changes needed to improve the ALERT Act, but it does not work in its current form.

“Congress can pass ROTOR, and then we can take up jointly all the other recommendations for the House to address,” she said.

A group of families of passengers killed in the collision said they could no