By Laura Paddison, Samuel Hart, CNN

(CNN) — Jessie Diggins is an endurance athlete. The Olympic cross-country skier describes the intensity of suffering her sport can inflict as a “pain cave.” It doesn’t frighten her; she’s used to digging deep, she can control the pain. What does terrify her, however, is how rapidly her sport is changing because of something completely out of her control: climate change.

She sees the effects everywhere. “I’ve raced World Cups where it was pouring rain and there was barely a strip of snow to ski on, entire seasons were reshaped overnight,” Diggins said. It’s become impossible to hold a winter sporting event without fake snow, she wrote in a blog.

The Milan Cortina Winter Games in the Italian Alps, which will mark Diggins’ final Games, are no different. Snowmaking machines were busy pumping out snow for weeks.

As humans continue to burn planet-heating fossil fuels, winter is changing: Snowfall is declining, snowpack is shrinking and temperatures are rising in many places. Where once mountains were blanketed in thick white powder, many lie bare well into winter.

For those who rely on snow for their livelihoods, every ski season is a nail-biter. For the Winter Olympics, it’s a high-cost, high-stress disaster. Climate change is “reshaping winter sport as we know it,” said a spokesperson for the International Olympic Committee.

As athletes compete in Italy, the future of the Winter Olympics hangs in the balance. People are not just questioning how to keep the Games alive, but whether they should be kept alive at all.

The Olympics are ‘melting away’

The Games have changed hugely since the first Winter Olympics, held in France in 1924. Back then, almost all events happened outside, but by the 1980s, sports including ice skating, hockey and curling had moved to indoor rinks, where perfect ice could be guaranteed.

Snow and cold conditions have become increasingly unreliable. February temperatures in every Olympic host city since 1950 have warmed by an average of 4.8 degrees Fahrenheit (2.7 Celsius), according to data from research non-profit Climate Central.

This year’s Winter Olympics take place in venues across the Italian Alps, with several outdoor events centered around the town of Cortina d’Ampezzo, which previously hosted the Olympics in 1956. In the 70 years since, February temperatures in the town have risen by 6.4 degrees Fahrenheit (3.6 Celsius).

That translates to around 41 fewer days below freezing each year. Without reliably cold temperatures, snow is wetter and thinner, conditions are rainier — and for athletes that can be dangerous.

At the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, warm temperatures were blamed in part for high crash and injury rates. “It was like skiing in a slushy,” said Daniel Scott, a professor of geography and environmental management at the University of Waterloo. “People weren’t hitting jumps at the speeds they anticipated. They weren’t getting to landing areas properly,” he told CNN.

As the world warms, the pool of potential locations for the Games is shrinking rapidly.

In 2024, scientists analyzed 93 past and potential hosts for the Winter Olympics and Paralympics, focusing on whether

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Rusia critica el “estrangulamiento” de EE.UU. a Cuba. El difícil acto de equilibrio de Sheinbaum ante Trump. ¿Qué pasó con Guanipa en Venezuela? Esto es lo que debes saber para comenzar el día. Primero la verdad.

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Ghislaine Maxwell, condenada a 20 años de prisión por conspirar con Jeffrey Epstein para abusar de menores, envió este lunes un mensaje claro a Donald Trump: si el presidente le concediera una clemencia, ella limpiaría su nombre de cualquier irregularidad relacionada con Epstein.

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El Gobierno de Rusia dijo que “la situación en Cuba es realmente crítica” debido al “estrangulamiento” de Estados Unidos a los envíos de petróleo a la isla. El portavoz del Kremlin, Dmitry Peskov, aseguró además que Moscú está “discutiendo posibles soluciones” con sus “amigos cubanos”.

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El dirigente opositor venezolano Juan Pablo Guanipa fue detenido la noche del domingo en Caracas solo unas horas después de ser excarcelado, en la primera vez que se conoce que uno de los presos políticos que salió de prisión vuelve tras las rejas desde que el chavismo anunció el 8 de enero un proceso de liberaciones. ¿Cómo fue la detención? ¿Qué dijo la Fiscalía? Esto es lo que se sabe.

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Furuya Yamato no se queda quieto.

Los fines de semana en Tokio, se puede encontrar a este hombre de 50 años, barbudo y con cola de caballo, detrás del mostrador de su camión de comida, Tacos 3hermanos, donde cientos de clientes fieles hacen fila y esperan un deleite poco común en Japón: auténticos tacos callejeros mexicanos.

El primer día que nos reunimos con Yamato, todavía tiene pendiente elaborar a mano 3.000 tortillas para un evento de fin de semana. Pero antes de llevar a CNN Travel a recorrer su base, una taquería en el lago Yamanaka, insiste en que tenemos que visitar una serie de santuarios sagrados cercanos en su ciudad natal de Fujiyoshida, enclavada en la base del majestuoso monte Fuji.

La conexión de Yamato con sus raíces es profunda. En el santuario Fujiyoshida Sengen, un sereno santuario forestal, dice que sus antepasados eran venerados como adivinos en la región, una práctica que él continúa, considerando que es su deber inspirar a la gente.

“Pero, básicamente, soy una oveja negra”, admite. “Así que hago lo que me da la gana”.

Ahora mismo, lo que quiere hacer es tacos.

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Ikigai es un concepto japonés que representa el compromiso con el propósito que uno tiene en la vida. En el caso de Yamato, cree que el sentido de la vida no reside solo en las búsquedas individuales, sino en conectar con los demás.

Para él, la forma más segura de forjar esas conexiones es sencilla: “Con tacos, en la calle, tomando algo y comiendo juntos”.

Los visitantes del camión de comida Tacos 3hermanos podrían esperar algún tipo de toque japonés en sus platos, quizá un poco de fusión. Pero Yamato sirve una de las comidas callejeras mexicanas más auténticas y deliciosas del mundo.

Tras el terremoto y tsunami de Tōhoku de 2011, Yamato se enfrentó a una creciente presión para retomar su trabajo de publicidad corporativa. Durante un viaje de negocios posterior a Italia, un amigo le presionó con una pregunta: “Yamato, ¿dónde está tu vida?”.

Se convirtió en un mantra ineludible que se preguntaba constantemente. “¿Dónde está tu vida?… ¿Dónde está tu vida?”.

Estas palabras resonaban en su mente, impulsándolo hacia un camino que desafiaría y saciaría su alma.

Yamato dejó atrás su carrera publicitaria y adoptó un estilo de vida minimalista, despojándose de muchas posesiones, incluido su auto.

Buscando el reto definitivo para salir de su zona de confort, decidió irse al lejano México.

Por aquel entonces, Yamato ni siquiera había probado un taco, ni hablaba español.

Pero el embriagador fervor de México le atrajo. Y gracias a su personalidad extrovertida, Yamato se estableció rápidamente en su país de adopción.

“Hay mucho amor”, dice de México. “Es un sistema de pasión”.

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En la Ciudad de México, Yamato conoció a una mujer y empezaron a salir, pero fue el estricto padre de ella quien, sin saberlo, daría el pistoletazo de salida a su odisea culinaria al enviarlo a comprar ingredientes para preparar la cena.

Yamato aún no hablaba español con fluidez, pero tenía muchas ganas de agradar, así que se aprendió las palabras de la lista de la compra recorriendo uno a uno los pasillos del mercado.

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By Danya Gainor, CNN

(CNN) — The search for missing 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie, mother of “Today” show host Savannah Guthrie, has stretched into a second, anguished week, with mounting pressure on investigators and a family grappling with uncertainty.

Guthrie was last seen on January 31, before she was apparently kidnapped, disappearing from her secluded home in Arizona’s Catalina Foothills without her phone or critical medications.

The long days since she vanished have been marked by disturbing twists: purported ransom notes demanding millions of dollars, an intensive investigation and emotional video pleas from Guthrie’s children publicly begging for the return of their mother.

Here is a timeline of key events in the case:

January 31

Nancy Guthrie joins her family for dinner and game night Saturday evening, Ubering to her older daughter Annie’s nearby home around 5:32 p.m. Hours later, family members drop her back home. Guthrie’s garage door opens at approximately 9:48 p.m. and closes at 9:50 p.m.

“It is that time we assume that Nancy’s home and probably going to bed,” Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos said at news conference a few days after her disappearance.

February 1

Guthrie’s doorbell camera is disconnected at 1:47 a.m. and about 25 minutes later, surveillance camera software detects movement. At 2:28 a.m., data from Guthrie’s pacemaker app shows the device was disconnected from her phone.

More than nine hours later, at 11:56 a.m., the family realizes she’s missing when checking on her at home after she is uncharacteristically absent from church. Relatives call 911 at 12:03 p.m. to report her missing, and Pima County Sheriff’s Department patrols arrive by 12:15 p.m.

Investigators scour the scene, finding blood on the front porch which is later confirmed to be Guthrie’s.

“There’s still more items that have been submitted. We just haven’t got them back yet,” the sheriff would later say on February 5. “In the meantime, we’re not just sitting on our haunches waiting. We do have a number of leads coming in.”

February 3

On the third day of the search for Guthrie, several media outlets, including TMZ and CNN affiliate KOLD, receive purported ransom letters demanding millions of dollars in bitcoin for her return. One note includes a first deadline of 5 p.m. Thursday, February 5, and a second deadline for Monday, February 9.

February 4

In an emotional video posted to Instagram on Wednesday evening, Savannah Guthrie – flanked by her siblings Annie and Camron – pleads for her mother to come home four days after her disappearance. “We need to know without a doubt that she’s alive and that you have her,” Guthrie said in response to the reports of ransom notes. “We want to hear from you and we are ready to listen. Please reach out to us.”

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By Leah Dolan, CNN

Les Archives, located in Paris’ 6th arrondissement, is a secondhand designer store rendered entirely in millennial pink. This is not your typical Aladdin’s Cave vintage shop, where rails are stacked on top of each other and garments fill every corner. The blush-toned space is sparse, with a smattering of shoes on a couple of wall-mounted shelves, a few magazines, and a pink reproduction of a Mario Bellini Camaleonda sofa. Around 250 items, give or take, hang evenly on clothing rails that line each side of the shop. “I like to keep the store well-spaced,” said the owner and sole employee, 29-year old Nicolette Contursi. “I don’t want it to feel overwhelming.”

It’s widely understood that to shop secondhand is to enter into a treasure hunt, where messiness is permitted and persistence is rewarded with bargains and unique items. But today, Les Archives represents another type of vintage clothing store that is gaining traction — one where much less digging is required.

Contursi, a native Californian who moved to Paris ten years ago to study fashion history and marketing, opened the doors to her brick-and-mortar store in December 2023. She mostly sells designer clothes from the likes of Chanel, Yves Saint Laurent, Prada, Gucci, Jean Paul Gaultier, Versace and more, with each item made between the short window of 1980 and 1999, and prices ranging from $160 to $5,000. “I only buy pieces that I love, that I would want to wear,” she said. “I’m curating a collection that fits a certain aesthetic.” It means she rarely has any reserves in the store room. “I don’t have a backstock,” Contursi said. “I really operate the business on what goes out gets replaced.”

Maria Francisca Machado, also 29, has taken a similar approach with her secondhand clothing shop in Lisbon, Portugal, which opened last summer. “I want people to feel like this is a highly curated store,” she said in a video interview. “Not like random things, like your grandma’s closet.” The retail space, conveniently titled Curated, is slick, silver and industrial. The till rests on a huge polished chrome desk, and the clothes — which are not designer, but selected for their construction quality and use of natural fibers — hang on a few rails of exposed pipe.

There’s demand for it, too. In October 2025, Google searches for “curated vintage” reached an all-time high. The phrase has been tagged in more than 550,000 posts on Instagram, while on TikTok the number of videos with the #curatedvintage hashtag increased by 50% in the past year. Ameli Lindgren, founder of the London archival fashion retailer Nordic Poetry, specializing in designer runway pieces largely from 1990 to the early 2000s, says she has noticed the shift firsthand. Lindgren opened this store in 2017 after moving from another location, but has been selling luxury vintage at markets and pop-up locations for years before. “When I started off, it wasn’t very curated at all,” she said of her business. “Most people are doing it now because it’s easier for the consumer.”

On the whole, the used fashion market is experiencing a boom. According to a 2025 survey from the Boston Consulting Group and Vestiaire Collective, the growth of the secondhand fashion and luxury market is outpacing that of newly-made clothes by as much as three times. Shopping vintage has become a legitimate way to build out one’s wardrobe, as consumers increasingly make decisions based on sustainability, affordability and personal style. “If you go and buy a jacket at Zara, the next day you wear it you walk past five people that are wearing the same jacket,” said Lindgren.

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