When it comes to travel TV, few names are more well-known than Samantha Brown. Since the year 2000, she has hosted almost a dozen different travel series. Now she's back with her latest on PBS called "Samantha Brown's Places To Love." Brown says this time around she is taking a more personal look at travel.
Since 2000, Brown has traveled to over 260 cities in more than 60 countries. Her favorite place to visit? Southeast Asia. Brown says it's an entirely different world that contrasts so strongly--physically and culturally--from the U.S.
To make the most out of travel, Brown says, "don't go for the exclamation points. Look for the commas." The best experiences are in the side streets, not in the main squares.
Scrambling to keep the coronavirus at bay, officials have ordered a cruise ship to hold off the California coast to await testing of those aboard, after a passenger on an earlier voyage died and at least one other became infected.
Stocks are falling in midday trading on Wall Street, erasing 2 percent from major indexes, a day after they surged 4 percent as the mood swings back to fear about economic fallout from the virus outbreak.
These are the headlines you Need 2 Know for Thursday, March 5, 2020.
Emmy winning actor and soon to be "Fairy Godmother" Billy Porter has taken Hollywood by storm. When he is not slaying red carpets or starring in the FX series Pose, he is taking time to practice more self-care.
The San Francisco-based investment fund leader says companies should look to diversify their supply chains to reduce the impact of future outbreaks.
Stocks are rising sharply in morning trading on Wall Street, led by health care stocks after Joe Biden scored a number of Super Tuesday wins. Investors see him as a more business-friendly alternative to Bernie Sanders.
These are the headlines you Need 2 Know for Wednesday, March 4, 2020.
A love of all things cannabis prompted cannabis journalists David Bienenstock and Abdullah Saeed to create “Great Moments in Weed History” — a podcast dedicated to telling stories, cracking jokes, and, yes, smoking weed.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 785 points and bond prices surged after an emergency interest-rate cut by the Federal Reserve failed to reassure markets racked by worries that a fast-spreading virus outbreak could lead to a recession.
HotelPlanner CEO Tim Hentschel told Cheddar that the travel industry is taking the worst hit it has seen in nearly two decades thanks to the coronavirus outbreak paralyzing multiple countries.
