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A fight between passengers marred the final night of a Carnival Cruise Line sailing on June 6th. The incident, which unfolded in the Lido Deck dining room onboard the Carnival Paradise, involved a group of women and resulted in thrown chairs and plates.

Cruise Ship Fight Near Buffet Captured on Camera, Passengers Banned for Life

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Landslide-generated tsunamis don’t come with any warning signs and they’re impossible to predict. Tsunami scientists are meeting with vessel operators in Alaska this month to put together some practical guidelines for captains to use in the case they encounter one of these snap tsunamis. These recommendations will be useful for the hundreds of tour ships that navigate the large landslide-prone coastlines of Alaska, Greenland, Chile, Norway, and New Zealand. Hopefully this summit will help prepare ships, and save lives in the process. A tsunami hasn’t killed any boat passengers in Alaska in 60 years, but as ice mass continues to dwindle in the face of a warming climate, the probability of a big event increases.

Spontaneous Tsunamis Could Take Out Cruise Ships

Seward, AK

A CDC report shows dozens of people fell ill due to a norovirus outbreak on Celebrity Summit last week. The vessel was on a seven-night Alaskan cruise from Vancouver, British Columbia, to Seward, Alaska, when passengers first started coming down with symptoms. According to the CDC, the Celebrity cruise ship...

Alaska Cruise Ship Hit by Norovirus

New York State

A pocket watch that belonged to Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt was returned to his New York home this week after it was stolen decades ago and later showed up at an auction, according to the FBI and the National Park Service.

A Florida auctioneer was about to sell an 1800s pocket watch. He learned it was a stolen piece of US presidential history

You can receive daily cruise news updates directly to your inbox, so you don't miss a thing! Go ahead and Subscribe here. Guests sailing aboard Carnival Pride for the first of the ship’s three Greenland sailings this year are missing yet another port of call. After previous itinerary adjustments, including canceling both Greenland ports of call, the ship has now been unable to make its visit to St. Anthony on Monday, June 3.

Another Port Cancelled for Ill-Fated Carnival Cruise

Cargo ships have been sailing down the River Nene and into the inland Port of Wisbech for centuries

The inland harbour of the real ships of the Fens

Charlottesville, VA

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The cost of living in the United States has gone up so much in recent years that living on a cruise ship has become a reasonable idea for some retirees. When Nancy and Robert Houchens of Charlottesville, Virginia, retired, they decided to sell almost everything they had and live out their golden years hopping from cruise ship to cruise ship."We had a 3,000-square-foot home full of furniture...and everything we own now would fit in the back of a pickup truck," Robert told USA Today.“We sold all of our estates except for a little condominium we have in Florida, so when we get too old to cruise, we have somewhere to live,” Nancy added. “And we did keep two vehicles, and what we kept is in half of (Robert's mother's storage unit), which is, I don't know, 10x10 or something. We just walked away from everything.”

Couple retires to live on cruise ships because it's 'cheaper than a nursing home'

For most closed-loop cruises out of the United States you don’t actually need a passport. In these cases you can bring a birth certificate and driver’s license. But I still recommend just getting a passport. It simplifies the process and if you do get left behind at a foreign port for any reason, it saves you from a boatload of headaches.

Cruise Passengers Now Have an Easier Way to Renew Passports

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Jaguars quarterback Trevor Lawrence and his wife, Marissa, are expecting a baby. The couple posted pictures on their social media accounts Thursday afternoon with the caption “A little Lawrence on the way.”

A little Lawrence is on the way

New York City, NY

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New York – As Trump anticipates his sentencing on July 11th in the New York hush money case, Florida Judge Aileen Cannon made a ruling this Monday. Despite rejecting Trump’s legal team's request to dismiss several charges in the classified documents case, she conceded on a minor point. She removed a portion of the charges that referenced an uncharged allegation, but upheld the other charges.

Legal expert says Trump should not be jailed after New York guilty verdict because he is ‘too old’

The Independent

The magic of Disney is growing with a huge new Disney cruise ship set to launch in 2025.Disney Adventure will be the sixth launch by Disney Cruises and the largest by far with space for 6,700 guests and 2,500 crew.With a gross tonnage of 208,000, Disney Adventure will be about 44 per cent larger than the line’s current biggest cruise ship, Disney Wish.Setting sail from Singapore in 2025, the new super liner marks Disney cruise’s first foray into Asia, calling Singapore’s Marina Bay Cruise Centre it’s home port.It will offer three- and four-night itineraries to destinations around Southeast Asia, with...

Disney Cruise Line unveils its biggest ship yet – with room for more than 7,000 passengers

California State

Alameda Post

California regulators just stopped AT&T from pulling the plug. California’s Public Utilities Commission on June 20 rejected AT&T’s application to stop providing landlines and other services in areas where there is no other option.

Still Need Your Landline?

You can receive daily cruise news updates directly to your inbox, so you don't miss a thing! Go ahead and Subscribe here. For some cruise passengers, the whole point of taking a cruise is to hop from destination to destination, spending a day somewhere new and then heading off to the next port. It’s a way to see a lot of different places in one vacation.

11 Reasons Cruise Passengers Remain on the Ship While in Port

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Aircraft carriers and cruise ships are some of the largest floating vessels in the world — both capable of carrying thousands of people on board. Cruise ships and carriers are engineering marvels decades if not centuries in the making as shipbuilding has advanced over the ages. However, cruise ships...

Is An Aircraft Carrier Bigger Than A Cruise Ship? Here's How They Compare

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The FBI has seen a rise in scams targeting timeshare owners. In this kind of scam, criminals con these part-time property owners into shelling out hefty sums of cash, all under false pretenses related to their timeshare properties.

FBI warns that Mexican cartels are targeting Americans with timeshare scams

South Bend, IN

Michigan City, IN

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LAPORTE COUNTY, Ind. — A South Bend woman is facing serious charges after allegedly smuggling marijuana into the Indiana State Prison on Michigan City's west side. According to court documents, 38-year-old Janise Clark was apprehended on Sunday while reporting for her shift as a correctional officer. A fellow staff member noticed her plastic-wrapped sandwich looked suspicious, prompting further inspection. When the sandwich was placed in an X-Ray machine, it revealed two vacuum-sealed plastic bags containing nearly a half pound of marijuana hidden between the slices of bread.

Prison Guard Arrested for Smuggling Marijuana Sandwich into Jail

Virginia State

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A Culpepper family had a Wizard of Oz experience. A family of five in Culpepper, Virginia, experienced a Wizard of Oz during this past Sunday's tornado. Brandy Walters told WTOP it's a miracle she and her husband, Lawrence Johnson, and their three children are still alive.

Tornado picked up a shed with a Culpepper, Virginia family of 5 inside, then dropped them upsidedown

A cruise line has updated the itinerary for a 56 day cruise that will depart later this year to include a port stop in Bora Bora. Holland America Line’s 56 day ‘Tales of the South Pacific” cruise that will depart on September 25, 2024 from Vancouver will now include a port stop in Bora Bora.

Cruise Line Changes Itinerary, Adds Port Stop in Bora Bora

You can receive daily cruise news updates directly to your inbox, so you don't miss a thing! Go ahead and Subscribe here. As part of the compensation for working on cruise ships, crew members are provided with room and board for the duration of their contract. However, while the accommodations may be free, they are not always the most luxurious homes away from home.

Crew Member Shows Tiny Cabin on Royal Caribbean’s Newest Cruise Ship

Arzo survived a suicide attempt but now faces a new threat that could send her family – and millions like them – back to Afghanistan and a life that has become so intolerable for women and girls that some would rather die.

A year ago, she drank battery acid to escape life under the Taliban. Today, she has a message for other Afghan girls

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The Dali cargo ship leaves Baltimore for Virginia as 8 crew members stuck on board for months are finally home

Eight of the 21 crew members from the cargo ship that struck and destroyed a famed Baltimore bridge are back home Monday after myriad complications kept...

The Dali cargo ship leaves Baltimore for Virginia as 8 crew members stuck on board for months are finally home

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