PREMATURE CELEBRATION
They’re quarantining in Ibiza, locking down in Mykonos, and closing travel bubbles in New Zealand as COVID wins again.
Barbie Latza Nadeau, correspondent-at-large for The Daily Beast and author Roadmap to Hell: Sex, Guns and Drugs on the Mafia Coast, about sex trafficking and the mafia, and Beast Book Angel Face, about Amanda Knox, has reported from Italy for Newsweek since 1997 and for The Daily Beast since 2009. She is also a CNN Contributor and frequent writer for Scientific American.
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VACATION NIGHTMARE
At least four people are in a serious condition after the minibus veered off a road and fell 20 feet down an embankment.
AGONY OF DEFEAT
With less than 24 hours to go before the Games officially begin, Tokyo logged nearly 2,000 new infections in what has become the most chaotic Summer Games ever.
ARTISTIC LICENSE
High-brow museums are furious that the most popular pornographic streaming service is sexually exploiting classic masterpieces without permission.
THE BUBBLE HAS BURST
Infection has struck alternate Kara Eaker, who was vaccinated two months ago and is now in isolation with one of her teammates.
STICKS AND STONES
The Italian government had made a half-assed attempt to stop massive cruise ships from gliding through its canals. Then UNESCO threatened to put the city on its endangered list.
CURSED
The bodies of two men were found in an upstairs suite of the mansion, which has been converted into a luxury hotel.
TERRIBLE JUDGMENT
A 55-year-old magistrate judge first tried to sell his wife on a ‘libertine’ dating site before offering his pubescent daughter as a sex toy.
MIRACLE MEETING
Guo Gangtang traveled more than 310,000 miles in search of his son, who was abducted by traffickers in China when he was just 2 years old.
SPEAKING UP
Thousands of people have taken part in rare demonstrations in Cuba to protest the collapse of the economy and the government’s handling of the pandemic.
