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Titanic footage, treasures in train tunnels and a 16-hour flight to nowhere

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Underwater. Underground. There are fascinating finds all over the place. View in Browser 02.18.23 Just-revealed Titanic footage, a medieval treasure trove under the streets of Amsterdam, and a 16-hour Air New Zealand flight from Auckland to Auckland.   Here's the latest in travel .   By Maureen O'Hare   πŸ¦‘ What lies beneath (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution/Reuters) Video footage showing the wreck of the Titanic just months after its discovery in 1985 has been released for the first time. The 80-minute movie, unveiled to coincide with the 25th anniversary of James Cameron's blockbuster movie about the disaster, was captured two miles (3.2 kilometers) below the ocean's surface and shows the ship's famous bow section, deck and equipment as well as images of the interior.   Elsewhere in the deep, a photo of a river dolphin popping its beak above the water at dusk has just been named the winning image in the Unde...

He’s been covering the US-Mexico border since the ’90s

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CNN's Ed Lavandera reflects on the root of America's border crisis View in browser An exclusive inside look with your free CNN account 🌎 A conversation with CNN's Ed Lavandera  Ed Lavandera reports live from the US-Mexico border. (Photo credit: Ashley Killough/CNN) Ed Lavandera has a clear memory of the first time he experienced the power of CNN's journalism.    He was a student at a Catholic high school in Texas when the first Gulf War broke out. A priest would regularly roll a television set into a common area so he and his classmates could watch CNN coverage of the war.    At that point in his life, he couldn't have imagined CNN would be calling him 10 years later.    Lavandera, a child of Cuban immigrants, grew up between Texas and California. He has been reporting on the US-Mexico border since the mid-'90s before starting with CNN in 2001. In that time, he's seen and learned a lot.    "It lit...