By Scottie Andrew, CNN

(CNN) — Everlane, a company that promised shoppers affordable and ethically defensible clothing, may be over as customers have known it.

Shoppers are rattled by reports that Everlane, the former direct-sales retailer that promised sustainably made clothes, is being purchased by fast-fashion giant Shein. The $100 million deal was made to absolve Everlane’s $90 million in debt, Puck’s Lauren Sherman reported. (Representatives for Everlane, its majority owner L Catterton and Shein have not confirmed the sale.)

“Cool cool need to go buy 46 white t-shirts before the formula changes,” writer Sophie Vershbow posted on X. (In a screenshot, it appeared she only bought three.)

For customers partial to its boxy T-shirts and sturdy jeans, Everlane’s affordable prices and commitment to “radical transparency” eased their guilt about buying new stuff. Since its launch in 2010, Everlane broke down pricing and production costs and traced its garments’ manufacturing and material origins, which customers could easily find on its site. Shein, a company routinely accused of shoddy quality and unsafe working conditions for its employees, feels incompatible with a brand built on sustainability. (The sustainable fashion watchdog group Good on You rated Everlane as “good” in terms of its sustainability, a holistic score that takes into account labor practices, waste output and materials, calculated from company-reported and third-party data and accreditations. The same site rated Shein as a brand to avoid.)

“This was a brand founded on ethical consumption, which is the complete opposite of what Shein stands for,” said Shawn Grain Carter, an associate professor at the Fashion Institute of Technology who teaches courses on sustainable style. “Fast fashion is the antithesis of sustainability. It’s cheap labor, it’s produced at any cost and rarely is it done in an ethical supply chain. So to have an acquisition by a company that goes directly against the core values of your core customer is problematic in many ways.”

Plenty of brands make durable basics, some of them under “sustainable” banners. But after more than a decade of building a customer base who just wanted to buy a bunch of elevated, office-friendly clothes in neutral hues without guilt, Everlane reportedly agreeing to the sale feels like a “betrayal” of its values and its regular shoppers, Grain Carter said.

“It almost feels personal, that this is how it ends,” said Madeleine Alizadeh, a fashion writer who started her own small brand, DariaDeh, with similar sustainable aims.

Kirstie Wang, a small business owner from the Bay Area who’s accused Shein of stealing her designs, said in an Instagram reel that news of the rumored sale made her cry.

“I think I just really looked up to them, and half my closet is Everlane,” she said in the video. “How did they swing the pendulum so far that they’re able to sell to the radical opposite of what they stood for?”

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By Davis Winkie, CNN

(CNN) — A US military-owned surveillance blimp operated by Customs and Border Protection contractors near Laredo, Texas, broke free from its tether on Monday evening and later crashed in Mexico.

The blimp did not carry a crew when in the air, and no ground personnel were injured in the incident.

The 66-foot surveillance blimp’s tether cable, which secures the balloon to the ground, became tangled with other cables amid storms on Monday, a spokesperson for Joint Task Force-Southern Border, confirmed in a statement to CNN.

That evening, a nearby airport experienced heavy thunderstorms that brought wind gusts as high as 44 miles per hour, according to National Weather Service data.

The aircraft’s operators tried to untangle the cables, the spokesperson said, but the helium-filled blimp “became untethered” and floated away. The military declined to say which specific model of balloon was lost, only describing the aircraft as a “medium aerostat.”

CBP operates surveillance blimps across the region. Some are equipped with high-powered cameras, and others carry radar systems that detect drones and other aircraft operated by smugglers.

The runaway balloon’s location was unknown until Mexico’s military discovered it “in a remote location … southwest of Laredo,” according to the spokesperson. Mexican and US troops are coordinating to recover the aerostat.

A CBP spokesperson did not reply to a request for comment.

Border Patrol began using small “tactical” blimps for surveillance in 2012, but the program has periodically run out of funding. Many of the aircraft belong to the Department of Defense, which spent more than $5 billion to develop and purchase more than 140 surveillance blimps during the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, according to a Government Accountability Office report published in 2012.

CBP lost an even larger surveillance blimp in March 2025, when a 200-foot aerostat operating on South Padre Island, Texas, broke free from its tether and floated nearly 600 miles before careening into power lines near Dallas.

CPB, which oversees Border Patrol, plays a crucial role in President Donald Trump’s efforts to secure the US-Mexico border and restrict illegal immigration.

Trump’s emphasis on hardening the border has brought CBP a litany of military manpower and equipment as well, sometimes with unintended consequences.

In February, CBP’s use of a high-energy anti-drone laser system furnished by the Pentagon to shoot down balloons led the Federal Aviation Administration to suddenly shut down civilian airspace over El Paso, Texas.

Davis Winkie’s work at CNN is supported by a partnership between Outrider Foundation and Journalism Funding Partners (JFP). CNN retains full editorial control of the reporting.

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SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. (KEYT) – Three Cal Poly educators have been awarded Fulbright awards for the 2026 academic cycle and another has been designated as an alternate recipient.

The Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program awards hundreds of U.S. educators the opportunity to teach and conduct research in more than 120 countries on an annual basis.

The prestigious academic awards program, sponsored by the U.S. State Department since its inception in 1946, is the nation's flagship educational and cultural exchange program and was created to foster mutual learning and peaceful relations around the world detailed the State Department.

"These awards highlight the exceptional caliber of Cal Poly's faculty and their dedication to addressing global challenges through research, teaching and collaboration," shared Cari Vanderkar, assistant vice provost for International Programs and Cal Poly's senior international officer. "We are proud of their achievements and the impact their work will have both internationally and within our campus community."

Each of Cal Poly's Fulbright recipients and their plans for the award are detailed below.

Associate professor Natasha Neumann of the Bailey College of Science and Mathematics in the School of Education received a Fulbright award to study at the Universidad CEU Cardenal Herrera in Valencia, Spain.

There, Dr. Neumann will conduct her project entitled "Multilingual Learning in Spain & the U.S.: Educational Policy Leadership, and Teaching Practices" which will focus on the intersection of language and education policy.

Professor of communications studies David Askay in the College of Liberal Arts, received a Fulbright award to study how embracing ambiguity, known as yuragi, can improve educational outcomes in collaborative environments at Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto, Japan.

Dr. Askay will also teach classes during his research as well as establish the infrastructure for future student exchanges between the Japanese university and Cal Poly shared the local university.

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Un portaviones estadounidense llegó al Caribe, según informaron las Fuerzas Armadas de Estados Unidos en un comunicado público, en un contexto de crecientes tensiones con Cuba.

Las fuerzas armadas de EE.UU. anunciaron este miércoles la llegada del Grupo de Ataque del Portaviones Nimitz, que incluye el portaviones, su ala aérea y al menos un destructor lanzamisiles.

“El portaviones USS Nimitz (CVN 68), la Escuadrilla Aérea del Portaviones 17 (CVW-17) embarcada, el USS Gridley (DDG 101) y el USNS Patuxent (T-AO 201) son el epítome de la preparación y la presencia, el alcance y la letalidad sin igual, y la ventaja estratégica”, afirmó el Comando Sur de EE.UU. en una publicación en X. “El USS Nimitz ha demostrado su destreza en combate en todo el mundo, garantizando la estabilidad y defendiendo la democracia desde el estrecho de Taiwán hasta el golfo Pérsico”.

La publicación se produce el mismo día en que el Gobierno de Trump anunció la imputación contra el expresidente de Cuba Raúl Castro.

CNN informó anteriormente que las autoridades cubanas consideraban que una imputación sentaría las bases para una intervención militar. El expresidente de Venezuela Nicolás Maduro ya había sido acusado cuando las fuerzas armadas estadounidenses llevaron a cabo una operación de captura en enero que lo llevó a Estados Unidos para ser juzgado.

El presidente de Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel, afirmó el lunes que Cuba “tiene el derecho absoluto y legítimo de defenderse contra un ataque militar”, y que tal ataque “provocaría un baño de sangre con consecuencias incalculables”.

La llegada del USS Nimitz se da también tras una gira del histórico portaviones por América Latina. La embarcación, una de las más antiguas aún en servicio en la Marina de EE.UU., cruzó recientemente el canal de Panamá y visitó varios países de la región.

Según informó previamente CNN, el USS Nimitz visitó puertos y participó en ejercicios conjuntos con fuerzas militares de América Latina, incluidos Panamá, Colombia, Ecuador y Uruguay.

El USS Nimitz, que entró en servicio en 1975, es el portaviones más longevo actualmente operativo en la Marina de EE.UU. y ha participado en operaciones militares en Medio Oriente y Asia. El despliegue en América Latina ocurre en medio de una creciente tensión regional por la situación en Cuba.

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