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The U.S. Coast Guard says a passenger who went overboard from a cruise ship in the Gulf of Mexico was rescued on Thanksgiving after likely being in the water for hours.

"Top Gun: Maverick" star Tom Cruise has been in the U.K. filming scenes for his upcoming film "Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part Two." The queen passed away on Sept. 8.

Norwegian Cruise Line has announced the removal of its pre-cruise COVID-19 testing, vaccination and masking requirements for all guests.

Authorities are trying to identify a mummified body found by police in the bathtub of a northwestern Arizona home as they investigated a burglary. Officers discovered Christine Walters rummaging through items inside the house on Saturday.

SAN FRANCISCO — (AP) — General Motors' self-driving car company on Monday announced plans to expand a robotaxi service that recently launched in California into new markets in Arizona and Texas before the end of this year. Cruise, a San Francisco startup that General Motors bought six years ago, told an audience at an investor conference that an autonomous ride-hailing service that began charging San Francisco passengers in June will make its debut in Phoenix and Austin, Texas, within the next 90 days. Cruise CEO Kyle Vogt didn't provide additional details about the ride-hailing services in Phoenix and Austin. When its ride-hailing service enters Phoenix, Cruise will be competing with another robotaxi service run by Waymo, a Google spin-off, that already has been charging passengers there. Waymo is also testing a robotaxi service in San Francisco that hasn't yet been cleared to charge passengers.

General Motors’ self-driving car company has announced plans to expand a robotaxi service into new markets in Arizona and Texas before the end of this year.

Just a couple of months following the debut of the Disney Wish, Disney Cruise Line has officially unveiled the name of its sixth ship.

Margaritaville at Sea cruise line is honoring those that serve our communities with a free cruise.

A woman sailing on a Royal Caribbean cruise ship that set sail from Port Canaveral was killed in a shark attack.

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The logic of scale is imposing a copy-paste sensibility on San Francisco.

When you’re on this cruise, winter is certainly not coming.

When you’re on this cruise, winter is certainly not coming.

Federal vehicle safety regulators will investigate a crash last month in which a vehicle struck a self-driving car from General Motors-backed Cruise.

Florida natives and tourists can party and take a cruise on Lake Monroe while getting in their exercise time.

At least seven Cruise vehicles blocked traffic by clustering an intersection starting late Tuesday night, blocking traffic.

The fast-growing legal sports betting industry is extending its reach to the middle of the ocean.

Cruise Self-Driving Car A Cruise self-driving car is pictured Feb. 23, 2020, undergoing testing in the SoMa District of San Francisco. California officials on Thursday, June 2, 2022, greenlighted the launch of a fare-based ride-hailing business, operated by Cruise and featuring the driverless cars. (Dongyu Xu/Getty Images/iStockphoto)SAN FRANCISCO — The robotaxis are coming to a San Francisco street corner near you. We’re now the first and only company approved to operate a fared driverless ridehail service in a major U.S. city after receiving the Driverless Deployment Permit from @californiapuc! >> Related: Watch: Driverless vehicle pulls away from traffic stop, perplexes San Francisco policeThe first commercial robotaxi business in the nation was launched in 2020 by Alphabet-owned Waymo in Chandler, Arizona, the Times reported.

Regulators gave the Cruise service approval to charge passengers for driverless rides, a first for the state. Initially, the service will be available at night in less congested parts of the city.

Johnny Depp got a standing ovation after performing with Jeff Beck in London Tuesday -- while awaiting a verdict in the sensational trial that pitted him against ex-wife Amber Heard. (May 31)

Republicans on the House Oversight Committee are requesting more information about Hunter Biden and his associates. CBS News has obtained 14 letters sent by ranking member Rep. James Comer to numerous banks and the Tresury Department. CBS News senior investigtive correspondent Catherine Herridge has the latest.

Following a cruise mishap earlier in the morning by Carnival, another cruise ship crashed into a dock in Jamaica, according to the cruise line Royal Caribbean.

Tom Cruise returns as US Navy pilot Maverick in the highly-anticipated follow-up to 1986's Top Gun.

Thirty-six years after the original, Tom Cruise unveils the much-expected "Top Gun" sequel on an aircraft carrier in San Diego, ahead of its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, later this month.

A recent video shows a driverless Cruise car getting pulled over in San Francisco by police who found the vehicle didn't have a driver.

For more than two years now, health officials have been warning people not to go on a cruise.

The same Princess Cruise ship has seen infections arise despite passengers and crew being vaccinated.

GM is acquiring SoftBank Vision Fund 1's equity ownership stake in its majority-owned Cruise autonomous vehicle unit for $2.1 billion.

DETROIT — (AP) — General Motors said Monday that Kyle Vogt will take over as CEO of its Cruise autonomous vehicle subsidiary, a company he helped found in 2013. A GM representative confirmed what Vogt posted on Twitter, that he had “once again” accepted the job as CEO of Cruise. The Detroit automaker announced in December that Ammann was leaving the company to be replaced by Vogt as interim CEO at Cruise. Cruise is operating a small fleet of autonomous-vehicle in San Francisco that it opened to the general public at the beginning of February. “Based on feedback from early users of our robo-taxi service, we’ve made something really special,” Vogt tweeted Monday.

Returning the company to Vogt, who had already been serving as interim CEO, comes at a pivotal time for the company.

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Royal Caribbean Wonder of the Seas (Royal Caribbean)FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Cruise enthusiasts anxious to get up close and personal with the world’s largest passenger ship — your wait is almost over. On March 4, Royal Caribbean will debut its brand-new ship, Wonder of the Seas. READ: FDOT announces opening date for I-4 Ultimate express lanesThe 1,200 foot ship will embark from Fort Lauderdale on its maiden voyage. Royal Caribbean said on its website that Wonder will initially set sail from Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale on seven-night excursions to the Caribbean and its own private island, CocoCay, in the Bahamas. pic.twitter.com/NbO0Pr8x6j — Royal Caribbean (@RoyalCaribbean) February 21, 2022Beginning in May, the cruise ship plans to head to Barcelona and Rome to kick off summer vacations in the Mediterranean.

Carnival Cruises will be relaxing its mask rules next month.

The U.S. Coast Guard has suspended its search for a cruise ship passenger who jumped from her balcony into the sea and is missing in the Gulf of Mexico.

PORT CANAVERAL, Fla. — Cruise traffic is picking up at Port Canaveral, and experts say bookings are expected to ramp up even more now that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has eased its travel warning for cruising. The industry’s largest trade association calls the change from warning level four to level 3 a step in the right direction. He said he doesn’t believe that the level 4 warning instituted by the CDC on Dec. 30 accurately reflected what was going on. READ: Disney Wish inaugural sailing delayed from Port CanaveralPort Canaveral saw a drop in cruise traffic in January, but passenger counts are back up. Ships will continue to be assigned a color status of green, yellow, orange or red to indicate it’s COVID-19 status.

"It's just surreal," General Motors CEO Mary Barra says while testing one of the company's driverless cars in San Francisco, calling it a highlight of her career.

Carnival Cruise Line is adding a new COVID-19 protocol to its sailings and the company plans to use Port Canaveral to test it out.

The sleek two-passenger electric vehicle is part of Cadillac's Halo Concept Portfolio.

It's unclear at this time what lead to Dan Ammann's abrupt departure, which comes ahead of commercialization plans for Cruise.

A robot car of the General Motors subsidiary Cruise is on a test drive in 2019. Dan Ammann, CEO of General Motors autonomous vehicle branch Cruise, is leaving the company, GM announced Thursday. Cruise's President and CTO Kyle Vogt will take over as interim CEO, the company said. Additionally, Cruise will gain a new board member: Former Chairman and CEO of Northrop Grumman Wesley Bush, who is also a GM board member. GM said the leadership change comes along with plans to accelerate a strategy it laid out at its most recent Investor Day, with Cruise playing a key role in building out its autonomous vehicle platform.

The U.S. Coast Guard has suspended its search for a woman who fell from a Carnival cruise ship over the weekend.

Disney Cruise Line officials shared details about two of the new shows that will debut aboard the all-new ship, the Disney Wish.

Royal Caribbean is offering the perfect trip for anyone looking to getaway for several months.

Cruise, General Motors' majority-owned autonomous vehicle subsidiary, is targeting a fleet of 1 million or more self-driving vehicles by 2030.

The move brings Waymo and Cruise one step closer to offering driverless ridesharing in California.

Just like Kesha said in her hit song “Tik Tok,” well, “the party don’t start till I walk in,” and that goes for her Kesha Cruise that is setting sail in 2022.

Alison Webb was told her field was need for a "VIP who was running late," she told BBC News.

Alison Webb was told her field was need for a "VIP who was running late," she told BBC News.

Crews had been building the set for months and the nearby village had seen lorry-loads of props appearing.

After nearly a year and a half without cruises, Port Canaveral is finally starting to look like one of America's busiest cruise ports again.

Carnival's Mardi Gras returned one week after the first cruise ship with paying passengers on board departed from Port Canaveral.

Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings and the state of Florida are battling about which court should hear a challenge to the state’s ban on so-called “vaccine passports."

Carnival Cruise Line’s Mardi Gras will be setting sail on its maiden voyage from Port Canaveral.

Six Royal Caribbean passengers tested positive for COVID-19 nearly one week after departing from the Bahamas.

Gov. Ron DeSantis remains confident that Florida will win its legal battle to lift orders from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that are preventing cruise ships from sailing out of U.S. ports.

Volunteer of the Seas to be selected this week.

In a flurry of legal activity, attorneys for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have asked a federal appeals court to put on hold a U.S. district judge’s ruling that backed Florida in a fight about the cruise-ship industry.

A battle between Florida and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention about cruise-industry restrictions during the COVID-19 pandemic went to an appeals court Tuesday, as federal-government attorneys also argued that a lower-court ruling should be put on hold.

As uncertainty remains over a restart of the cruise industry, leaders with Port Canaveral said they're hopeful for the port's first post-pandemic revenue sailing next month.

Disney has postponed its first test cruise scheduled to set sail from Port Canaveral.

The cruise line industry is making a comeback after the first ship with paying passengers on board set sail from a U.S. port in more than a year.

The four-year-old start-up retrofits industrial vehicles like dump trucks, dozers, and skid steers with autonomous systems. It just raised $21 million.

Gov. Ron DeSantis touted Florida's victory in a federal lawsuit against the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention aimed at lifting the health agency's ban on sailing which has been in place since March 2020.

Royal Caribbean International is taking small steps for the cruise industry.

Customers and employees of several Carnival Corp. cruise lines might have had personal information stolen.

For “Friends” fans everywhere, being able to witness Monica, Rachel, Ross, Chandler, Joey and Phoebe reunite felt like a real blessing.

The new credit is being provided by GM's automotive financing arm to use for the purchase of Cruise's self-driving Origin shuttles.

Settlement talks have ended in the legal battle between Florida and the federal government about restrictions on the cruise-ship industry.

Miami-based Norwegian Cruise Line announces additional voyages as part of its U.S. resumption plan.

The future of cruises in Florida remains in rough water, though many cruise lines are making plans now and are hopeful for a busy return.

California is allowing the company Cruise to offer free rides to passengers in its driverless cars — without safety drivers on board.

The California Public Utilities Commission authorized Cruise to give passengers rides in prototype robotaxis.

Royal Caribbean announced the return of its cruises from U.S. ports on Friday.

Carnival Corp. on Friday received the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s acceptance of a special agreement with Port Canaveral — an agreement that is a key step in the cruise company's resumption of sailings.

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PORT CANAVERAL, Fla. — Cruise industry leaders are still working to get ships sailing with passengers again by this summer. Royal Caribbean got approved for a trial cruise in Miami, and Canaveral Port Authority CEO Capt. John Murray said other companies are working on agreements to do something similar. Murray told Channel 9 the simulated sailings will involve a lot of testing and CDC oversight. Click here to download the free WFTV news and weather apps, and click here to watch the latest news on your Smart TV.

Norwegian Cruise Line announces that it expects to resume cruise operations from the U.S. beginning Aug. 7.

Carnival Cruise Line's newest and largest ship, the Mardi Gras, will be arriving at Port Canaveral on June 4, in preparation for its first sailing with passengers.

Royal Caribbean International is bringing 1,967 ship crew members to Port Canaveral to be vaccinated.

Cruise's CEO disclosed the timing Thursday, giving the most specific time frame yet for the vehicle and commercialization of its autonomous vehicle business.

Saying Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings isn't one of the bigger cruise lines, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said if smaller cruise lines want to leave the state, their void will be filled.

Cruising could restart in mid-summer in American waters.

Walmart's decision to invest comes about five months after the companies started working on a pilot program for deliveries in Scottsdale, Arizona.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention late Friday issued its next phase of technical guidance under its framework for conditional sailing order for cruise lines, News 6 partner Florida Today reports.

Cruise Chief Technology Officer Kyle Vogt (left) with Voyage CEO Oliver Cameron, who will join Cruise as part of an acquisition of the company. General Motors' majority-owned autonomous vehicle subsidiary Cruise has agreed to acquire Voyage, a self-driving car start-up that operated in retirement communities. The companies, which didn't disclose the terms of the deal, announced it Monday in a blog post by Voyage CEO Oliver Cameron, who will join Cruise as vice president of product. It's unclear how long Cruise will continue operating in the retirement communities. A majority of Voyage's 60 employees are expected to join Cruise, Wert said.

American Express — Shares of American Express jumped 3.5% in midday trading after JPMorgan issued an upbeat note on the payments company and advised investors to buy the stock. The Wall Street firm said it sees an upcoming surge in dining out post coronavirus. DraftKings – Shares of DraftKings dropped more than 4% after Berenberg initiated coverage on the sports-betting company with a sell rating. The Wall Street firm said investor expectations on the company are "overoptimistic" and shares are priced for perfection. State Street — Shares of State Street edged up nearly 1% after the company reported better-than-expected revenue for the fourth quarter.

Microsoft has entered into a long-term strategic relationship with General Motors and Cruise, the automaker's majority-owned autonomous car unit, to accelerate the commercialization of self-driving vehicles. In its announcement Tuesday, the companies said Microsoft will become the preferred cloud provider for GM and Cruise. The companies said they will work collaboratively on software and hardware engineering, cloud computing capabilities, manufacturing and partner ecosystem. "As Cruise and GM's preferred cloud, we will apply the power of Azure to help them scale and make autonomous transportation mainstream." Cruise will leverage Azure, Microsoft's cloud and edge computing platform, to commercialize its unique autonomous vehicle solutions at scale.

"Their value is based on *projected* revenue that comes from *entirely overlapping* potential customers, with very little discount applied to future projections. The first three companies have announced SPAC deals but have not yet gone public. "Of course, it's certainly not unusual for startups to be valued based on future revenue projections, even in a highly competitive space," Vogt tweeted. "But I typically see private markets put a much larger discount on these future projections than what we see with these SPACs." Luminar went public last month through a SPAC deal with an enterprise value of $2.9 billion.

Cruise, General Motors' majority-owned autonomous vehicle subsidiary, has hired former Delta Chief Operating Officer Gil West as its first COO, the company said Friday. West retired at the end of September after 12 years at the Atlanta-based airline. West started shortly before Delta's 2008 merger with Northwest and was named Delta's COO in 2014.

Miami Herald: Cruise industry "secretly funded disinformation campaign" New reporting from the Miami Herald reveals an association of cruise lines funded a "dark money" campaign to sway voters in Key West with alarming claims about referendums that would affect the cruise industry. Miami Herald reporter Taylor Dolven joins CBSN with the details.

Two self-driving Chevy Bolt EV cars are seen during a media event by Cruise, GM’s autonomous car unit, in San Francisco, California, U.S. November 28, 2017. Cruise, a majority-owned subsidiary of General Motors, has started testing self-driving vehicles without driver monitors in San Francisco, the company said Wednesday. The California-based company plans to begin testing a handful of vehicles, followed by a "very methodical and responsible" ramp-up across San Francisco, according to Cruise CEO Dan Ammann. While the vehicles will not have humans in the driver's seats, Cruise plans to maintain a safety operator in the passenger seat during the beginning of the testing, according to Cruise spokesman Ray Wert. Ammann declined to say when the company plans to launch a commercial autonomous vehicle business for passengers or cargo, citing "there's a lot more to come next year."

Cruise, a majority-owned subsidiary of General Motors, plans to begin testing unmanned autonomous vehicles by the end of this year in San Francisco. The company said Thursday it has received a permit from the California Department of Motor Vehicles to remove the human backup drivers from its self-driving cars. "Before the end of the year, we'll be sending cars out onto the streets of SF — without gasoline and without anyone at the wheel," Cruise CEO Dan Ammann wrote in a Medium post. "Because safely removing the driver is the true benchmark of a self-driving car, and because burning fossil fuels is no way to build the future of transportation." Cruise is not the first company to receive such approval but it's a milestone in taking Cruise's privately operated fleet to a public level without having drivers — a goal of the company.

(Reuters) - Developers of self-driving cars are amping up criticism of a California reporting requirement on test data, saying the data could mislead, as the state prepares to release the latest results for 2019. The debate is taking on more importance amid delays in the rollout of self-driving vehicles and concerns over a lack of regulation and the prospects for profitability for the companies that make such vehicles. The focus on disengagements when a human driver must take manual control from a self-driving system and the backlash from self-driving companies have been growing since the California Department of Motor Vehicles began releasing annual disengagement reports five years ago. California requires all companies testing self-driving vehicles on public roads to submit an annual report on disengagements and what caused them, written in plain language.In 2018, the companies with the most miles between disengagements were Alphabet Incs (GOOGL.O) Waymo and Cruise. Self-driving companies say the disengagement data can draw unfair comparisons between companies and their self-driving technology.

The driverless, electric shuttle, which GM is calling Origin, does not have manual controls such as pedals or a steering wheel. It is a production vehicle," Cruise CEO Dan Ammann said. Tuesday's event comes six months after Cruise delayed the launch of a commercial, self-driving vehicle service in San Francisco, which it had expected to deploy in 2019. Ammann, formerly president of GM, and GM CEO Mary Barra have said the launch of the company's self-driving vehicles would be "gated by safety." On Tuesday, Cruise did not give a specific timeline for start of production for Origin.

Cruise passengers held their breath as a 22.5 meter wide cruise liner became the largest boat to pass through Greece's narrow Corinth Canal, according to its operator. (Courtesy Fred.Olsen Cruise Lines)(CNN) - Cruise passengers held their breath as a 22.5 meter wide cruise liner became the largest boat to pass through Greece's narrow Corinth Canal, according to its operator. The Corinth Canal is a tidal waterway connecting the Gulf of Corinth with the Saronic Gulf, dividing the Pelopnnisos from mainland Greece. "Today Braemar made history as the longest-ever ship to cruise through the CorinthCanal," Fred Olsen cruise liners said on social media. At 6.3km (3.9 miles) long, the Corinth Canal shortens the sea route from Italian ports to the port of Athens.

Cruise, the subsidiary of General Motors developing self-driving vehicles and services, said Wednesday it is postponing a plan to launch an autonomous ride-share service by the end of 2019. Cruise CEO Dan Ammann announced the delay in launching an autonomous ride-share program through a post on Medium. Since late 2017, Ammann and General Motors have said they plan to have an autonomous ride-share service on the road by the end of 2019. Late last year, Waymo, Alphabet's autonomous vehicle division, launched its own commercial ride-share service in metropolitan Phoenix. "I feel very confident predicting autonomous robotaxis for Tesla next year," Musk told analysts in May.