The Senate is heading toward dueling partisan votes on health care this week
December 09, 2025
Democrat Eileen Higgins has won the Miami mayor’s race over a Republican endorsed by President Donald Trump
December 09, 2025
Prosecutors focus on DNA and blood evidence found in dumpsters at Brian Walshe’s murder trial
December 10, 2025
Dr. Jenny Radesky joins The Lead.
December 09, 2025
Australia is banning young teens from social media. Could it happen in the US?
December 09, 2025
Trump administration announces deal to end Biden-era student debt repayment plan
December 09, 2025
School shootings in the US: Fast facts
September 22, 2023
The nation’s leading doctors groups are in a standoff with federal health officials over vaccines
December 09, 2025
First group of K9 units certified to detect pure fentanyl
December 09, 2025
Notre Dame athletic director Pete Bevacqua thinks there’s a simple solution to politicking for College Football Playoff spots: expansion
December 09, 2025
Millions of Australian children just lost access to social media. What’s happening and will it work?
December 09, 2025
A federal judge has allowed a Tufts University student from Turkey to resume research and teaching while she challenges her arrest and detention by the Trump administration
December 09, 2025
Nearly a third of American teens interact with AI chatbots daily, study finds
December 09, 2025
An infant botulism outbreak has sickened at least 39 babies across the U.S. and underscored the crucial role of a medication that treats the rare disease
December 09, 2025
Illinois has a new law shielding immigrants from federal enforcement near courthouses, hospitals, university campuses, and day cares
December 09, 2025
The author and philanthropist MacKenzie Scott revealed $7.1 billion in donations to nonprofits in 2025 Tuesday, marking a significant increase in her annual giving from recent years
December 09, 2025
Michigan parent files Title IX complaint over transgender student playing on girls volleyball team
December 09, 2025
Gov. Greg Abbott vows to add more Turning Point USA chapters to Texas schools
December 09, 2025
Little Village families hold annual Our Lady of Guadalupe procession
December 09, 2025
Stockton music artists invite children to record 'peace anthem' after mass shooting leaves 4 dead
December 09, 2025
Madison doctors recall lifesaving efforts on school shooting anniversary
December 09, 2025
Testing points to likely cause after 70+ vultures found dead on Ohio school grounds
December 09, 2025
Assistant principal at Spartanburg County school charged with failure to report child abuse, police say
December 09, 2025
High school students in San Jose form swastika on football field, post image with Hitler quote on social media
December 09, 2025
Parkinson’s disease is on the rise. 5 expert tips to reduce your risk of developing it
December 09, 2025
The Australian government says it has banned under-16s from social media for their own safety. Now, two teens are fighting the law in court, arguing a right to political expression. CNN's Angus Watson reports.
December 09, 2025
Many people understand rural America through stereotypes. Two scholars who study rural communities bust 6 of those myths, complicating the conventional wisdom.
December 09, 2025
Not letting undocumented students pay in-state tuition at public colleges and universities can make the cost of a college education prohibitive.
December 09, 2025
It's time for the Geminid meteor shower, one of the strongest of the year
December 09, 2025
Angola’s slavery museum confronts the darkest horrors of the trade — and honors those who fought back
December 09, 2025
Trump administration quietly builds plans for what would happen if Maduro were ousted in Venezuela
December 09, 2025
Australia has introduced a world-first social media ban for children under 16, starting Wednesday
December 09, 2025
A man who says he was held down and beaten by members of a religious group in North Carolina wants the prosecutor removed from his case
December 09, 2025
Corporate America ‘risks rolling back progress’ for women, says new report
December 09, 2025
A new conservation plan would preserve pristine desert vistas beside the longtime home of 20th century painter Georgia O’Keeffe and ensure visitors continued access to a spiritual retreat, along with winter pasture for livestock
December 09, 2025
Notre Dame running back Jeremiyah Love, Indiana quarterback Fernando Mendoza, Vanderbilt quarterback Diego Pavia and Ohio State quarterback Julian Sayin are the finalists for the Heisman Trophy given to the top player in college football
December 09, 2025
A total of 100 of the schoolchildren abducted from a Nigerian Catholic school and released over the weekend have been hosted at a government-organized ceremony
December 08, 2025
Trump administration has revoked 85,000 visas since January, State Department official says
December 09, 2025
The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear an appeal on a Texas free speech case
December 08, 2025
Social worker killed on job described by coworker as "passionate, wonderful person"
December 08, 2025
Family on mission to help others navigate pain of stillbirth & infant loss
December 08, 2025
'Brought out the kid in me': Sooner fans, businesses celebrate hosting playoff game in Norman
December 08, 2025
Holiday helpers bring Christmas spirit to senior
December 08, 2025
Man helps Children’s Hospital patients turn artwork into holiday cards
December 08, 2025
Archdiocese weighs in on church’s ‘Ice Was Here’ nativity scene
December 08, 2025
Arkansas veterans reflect on the meaning of Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day
December 08, 2025
Greensboro Six honored in ceremony 70 years after they fought segregation by playing the game they loved
December 08, 2025
PASS IT ON: Boy asks for fishing stories instead of toys for Christmas
December 08, 2025
Carcasses of vultures found dead at school test positive for bird flu
December 08, 2025
13-year-old turns skateboarding competition into holiday toy collection
December 08, 2025
Massachusetts’ highest court heard oral arguments Friday in the state’s lawsuit arguing that Meta designed features on Facebook and Instagram to make them addictive to young users
December 05, 2025
'So beautiful': Community hosts farewell celebration for historic 250-year-old tree
December 08, 2025
Down syndrome employees find dream job with Kansas City Chiefs
December 08, 2025
Mystery foot fossil may shake up human family tree
December 08, 2025
Longtime Indiana University football fan celebrates historic winning season after 7 decades of support
December 08, 2025
Mom's 'angel tree' helping grieving parents during holidays
December 08, 2025
VA community saves Christmas after vandals destroy 40-foot cedar tree: 'It really worked out'
December 08, 2025
Cancer survivor buys suits for McDaniel College football seniors
December 08, 2025
Motorcycle toy run aims to set world record
December 08, 2025
What muscles feet have, how your brain controls them, and how humans evolved all play a part in why people can’t easily move individual toes.
December 08, 2025
Florida’s new unified human trafficking database allows criminologists to determine the scope of the problem and find patterns of exploitation.
December 08, 2025
Ocmulgee Mounds may soon be redesignated by Congress as America’s 64th national park. But what does this actually mean, and why does it matter?
December 08, 2025
In a new book based on hours of body-cam footage, a legal scholar shows how local police in sanctuary jurisdictions still help ICE − and why true non-cooperation is nearly impossible to enforce.
December 08, 2025
The new film highlights how the tribunal broke ground – and where it fell short – raising enduring questions about complicity, morality and whether humanity can ever truly judge its worst crimes.
December 08, 2025
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December 08, 2025
Acclaimed actor and director Robert Redford was one of the first celebrities to use his platform to draw attention to environmental issues in the 1970s. For more than four decades, he advocated to preserve the earth’s natural resources and protect the planet from climate change. He is this year’s CNN Heroes Legacy Award honoree, introduced by Meryl Streep.
December 07, 2025
Kabuki film ‘Kokuho’ is a box office hit aiming for the Oscars. It could help revive the art form itself
December 08, 2025
CNN’s Anderson Cooper and Laura Coates announce the 2025 CNN Hero of the Year during CNN Heroes: An All-Star Tribute.
December 07, 2025
Alabama and Miami are in, Notre Dame is out and Indiana is No. 1 in the College Football Playoff’s 12-team bracket
December 07, 2025
Tens of thousands of women in cities across Brazil have rallied against gender-based violence amid record numbers of female victims
December 07, 2025
Vanderbilt coach Clark Lea lobbied all week and offered to add a 13th game to the schedule, “in the parking lot” if they had to, for one more shot at impressing the College Football Playoff selection committee
December 07, 2025
Newly released photos of Rosa Parks emphasize lesser-known aspects of her legacy
December 07, 2025
The College Football Playoff rankings have been released
December 07, 2025
Family raises more than $500k for research for 6-year-old daughter's terminal disease
December 07, 2025
Hungarian author and Nobel Prize for Literature 2025 winner László Krasznahorkai, known for his surreal and anarchic novels, gave a rare public lecture in Stockholm on Sunday
December 07, 2025
Researchers at UW-Platteville find way to convert spoiled milk into 3D printing plastic
December 07, 2025
Trump blames Maduro for migrants, but a war in Venezuela could create millions of refugees
December 07, 2025
An exhibit opening Monday in Atlanta shows a historical marker from the site of a 1918 lynching that was repeatedly vandalized
December 07, 2025
Inside Trump’s transformation of the Kennedy Center
December 06, 2025
Swing-district Republican sounds alarm over GOP’s affordability agenda: ‘Doing nothing is not an option’
December 07, 2025
From the moment Curt Cignetti took Indiana’s head coaching job, he made it clear this would be a different program
December 07, 2025
Alabama is forcing the group that will set the College Football Playoff bracket to ask: Should a 12-team tournament include a team with three losses
December 06, 2025
Duke's overtime win against No. 16 Virginia in the Atlantic Coast Conference title game attracted its share of curious onlookers, given the league's uncertain footing for College Football Playoff bids
December 07, 2025
Quilen Blackwell, whose nonprofit ‘farm-to-vase’ flower shop employs at-risk youth, is CNN’s Hero of the Year
December 07, 2025
Texas Tech linebacker Ben Roberts had two interceptions after halftime and the No. 5 Red Raiders won the Big 12 championship with 34-7 victory over BYU
December 06, 2025
The National Park Service will no longer offer free admission to Americans on Martin Luther King Jr. Day or Juneteenth, but will waive admission costs on President Donald Trump's birthday
December 06, 2025
Hundreds pay tribute to Oakland coach John Beam in first organized memorial since killing
December 06, 2025
Annual Christmas Tree Ship with 1,200 trees arrives at Navy Pier on Saturday
December 06, 2025
'It's magic:' Kids, families attend Penfield Children's Center's annual holiday party, bringing festive joy to hundreds
December 06, 2025
Chicago doctor dedicated to changing lives of kids with rare neurological diseases
December 06, 2025
Big 12 Commission Brett Yormark says legislation currently stalled in Congress is needed to regulate college athletics and put a stop to what he essentially calls uncapped spending for name, image and likeness in football
December 06, 2025
Atlanta high school students surprised with early acceptance into Georgia Tech
December 06, 2025
Mike Duggan is stepping down as Detroit mayor at the end of the year after three terms in office
December 06, 2025
New infant burial site discovered at Tuam Mother and Baby home amid ongoing excavation
December 06, 2025
An Atlanta church with a viral pastor has grown from less than 200 weekly churchgoers in 2023 to about 6,000 today
December 06, 2025
Newly released recordings of 911 calls show Texas residents and staffers at Camp Mystic caught up in the catastrophic flooding in July pleaded for help as rushing waters rise around them, stranding them in attics and on roofs
December 06, 2025
College football's coaching carousel is slowing down after a dizzying frenzy
November 25, 2025
New LSU coach Lane Kiffin says defensive coordinator Blake Baker will remain with the Tigers
December 06, 2025
Iowa State has wasted no time finding a replacement for Matt Campbell, hiring Washington State’s Jimmy Rogers as its football coach on Friday night
December 06, 2025
A New York City high school senior has been jailed on a federal arson charge days after authorities say he set a fire that severely burned a sleeping subway passenger
December 06, 2025
The Trump administration is bringing back dozens of Education Department staffers who were slated to be laid off
December 06, 2025
A man clinging to a tree on the Guadalupe River and screaming for a helicopter rescue
December 05, 2025
Roy Kramer, who as commissioner of the Southeastern Conference helped transform the league into a national power while reshaping the entire sport of college football, has died
December 05, 2025
A Harvard visiting law professor from Brazil who told police he was shooting at rats when he fired a pellet gun near a synagogue on Yom Kippur has left the United States after his visa was revoked
December 05, 2025
The Supreme Court has agreed to take up the constitutionality of President Donald Trump’s order on birthright citizenship
December 05, 2025
Melania Trump has continued a decades-old first lady tradition of visiting with hospitalized children for the holidays
December 05, 2025
‘Small but Mighty’: 5-year-old boy saves family from house fire
December 05, 2025
Oklahoma City mourns 6-year-old Adrian Salgado after school bus accident
December 05, 2025
Six-year-old boy killed by school bus near Fillmore Elementary in OKC
December 05, 2025
Mom sues fraternity for son's death after alleged hazing
December 05, 2025
University of Oklahoma student claims religious discrimination over failed essay: What we know
December 05, 2025
Woman who gave birth in car after being discharged meets with hospital; father speaks out
December 05, 2025
Mom launches Autism Christmas party after son's diagnosis
December 05, 2025
Bodycam video shows heroic actions of first responders during attack
December 05, 2025
A divided Supreme Court has come to the rescue of Texas Republicans, ruling in favor of their new congressional map that a judge says is likely to be found racially discriminatory
December 05, 2025
The Michelin awards will almost certainly bring more tourism to the city, and more revenue to the honored restaurants. But will it make Philly’s dining scene better?
December 05, 2025
From AI slop to rage bait, to the cryptic ‘6-7,’ this year’s slate captures a growing sense that online life is flooded with fakery, frustration and meaninglessness.
December 05, 2025
The reasons are not yet fully understood, but researchers consider societal influences that encourage greater compliance among girls as a potential cause.
December 05, 2025
Gifts that make a true connection acknowledge the ugly parts of illness and provide relief from daily burdens.
December 05, 2025
A pup that was swept out to sea by a rip current must be feeling doggone lucky after her unlikely rescue off the San Diego coast
December 05, 2025
When President Donald Trump suspended the refugee program, he left thousands stranded worldwide
December 05, 2025
California has hired Tosh Lupoi as the new head coach, bringing back the former Golden Bears player and assistant
December 05, 2025
Kansas State has hired former quarterback and current Texas A&M offensive coordinator Collin Klein as its football coach
December 05, 2025
Scientists document over 16,000 footprints in the world’s most extensive dinosaur tracksite
December 05, 2025
In the Ecuadorian Andes, young Otavalo Indigenous people are using anime to inspire pride in their culture and language
December 04, 2025
NICU baby's fighting spirit inspires family through medical challenges
December 04, 2025
Woman seeks answers after dog shot on walk
December 04, 2025
'You got her?': Bodycam shows dramatic rescue of 4-year-old from fire
December 04, 2025
University of Utah team discovers rare computer relic
December 04, 2025
Rowing club says reckless boating caught on video put young athletes at risk
December 04, 2025
Somali Americans in Minnesota share their stories of immigration, hope
December 04, 2025
A federal vaccine advisory committee voted to delay a vote on whether newborns should still get the hepatitis B vaccine on the day they’re born
December 04, 2025
Inside Minnesota's LARK Toys, a one-of-a-kind marvel
December 04, 2025
Forever friends: Longtime neighbors still connected despite life changes
December 04, 2025
House Republicans plans to vote on a bill regulating college sports has been scrapped due to divisions within their caucus
December 04, 2025
Puppy scam costs family hundreds; Better Business Bureau issues holiday warning
December 04, 2025
Nearly a year sober, she’s gathered 100+ winter items for the recovery center that saved her
December 04, 2025
Disabled and elderly tenants struggle to leave home after both elevators break down at eleven-story complex
December 04, 2025
NYU student randomly attacked by repeat offender, police say
December 04, 2025
Brand helps young Black ballerinas see themselves in ballet
December 04, 2025
Student searches for Good Samaritan who performed a good deed, restoring his faith in humanity
December 04, 2025
Firefighter trainee threatened classmates, multiple weapons found in vehicle at academy, sources say
December 04, 2025
High school Spanish students teach firefighters lifesaving phrases
December 04, 2025
Santa's spy known as Elf on the Shelf is turning 20 this year
December 04, 2025
101-year-old Iwo Jima hero shares a century of memories through a weekly tradition
December 04, 2025
Pope Leo XIV's first full-length U.S. book is set to release next winter
December 04, 2025
Americans under 30 are ‘under profound strain’ and deeply mistrust institutions, poll finds
December 04, 2025
Your hands aren’t just accessories to your words. They’re one of the most powerful tools you have to make your ideas resonate.
December 04, 2025
Americans have looked to the Declaration of Independence when they sought to remedy contemporary problems and create new visions for the country’s future.
December 04, 2025
A new tool lets researchers get a handle on how social media algorithms affect emotions and polarization.
December 04, 2025
From the election of Zohran Mamdani to the intrigue surrounding the jewel heist at the Louvre, keeping up with this year’s news also left some Americans struggling with pronunciations
December 04, 2025
Australia's internet regulator said a teen social media ban would be the first domino to fall in a global push to rein in Big Tech, as Meta's
December 04, 2025
Thousands in Bangladesh flocked to hear the plans of the students who toppled long-time leader Sheikh Hasina when they launched a new political party this year,
December 04, 2025
US Institute of Peace renamed for Trump after his administration gutted it earlier this year
December 04, 2025
A University of Oklahoma instructor has been placed on leave after a student complained about receiving a failing grade on a paper
December 03, 2025
Even for a president who has long made clear he’s no fan of Somalia, the latest round of contempt from Donald Trump was a shock in the country’s largest Somali community in Minnesota
December 03, 2025
Struggling to stay awake in a meeting? Here’s what to do
December 03, 2025
The changing landscape of college football means the nation’s premier recruits are no longer signing with the same handful of programs
December 03, 2025
The National Transportation Safety Board described the fatal Nov. 10 flight that killed a Christian missionary father and his daughter in its preliminary report
December 03, 2025
‘You cannot rehabilitate the bullet in her skull’: Man admits to shooting 13-year-old in head
December 03, 2025
Shari Redstone's exit from the media world was decidedly brief.
December 03, 2025
Amazon.com said on Wednesday it is rolling out a dedicated news tab on its Prime Video streaming service, which will become available to all U.S. customers for free by the end of the
December 03, 2025
Boy clears fire hydrant, helps firefighters save lives
December 03, 2025
Police investigating after Carnegie Mellon student finds stranger in her bedroom
December 03, 2025
Church displays 'ICE was here' sign in Nativity scene
December 03, 2025
‘Thank you for my son’: Family reunites with first responders who saved 4-year-old
December 03, 2025
Woman warns others after $4,000 holiday shipping 'nightmare'
December 03, 2025
Woman transforms carport into humble pantry for neighbors in need
December 03, 2025
'You could have killed all my grandkids': Woman reacts to grandson being shot in face
December 03, 2025
A Wisconsin woman who almost killed her sixth grade classmate to please horror character Slender Man and then fled her group home won't fight extradition from Illinois
November 25, 2025
Authorities say a Wisconsin woman who admitted to nearly stabbing a classmate to death in 2014 to please the horror character Slender Man has been found in Illinois after she cut off an electronic monitoring device and left a group home
November 24, 2025
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December 03, 2025
VIDEO: Family has holiday gifts stolen by porch pirate
December 03, 2025
Bald eagle thought to be shot was actually injured in eagle fight, vets believe
December 03, 2025
Texas woman arrested for hiding razor blades in loaves of bread at Mississippi Walmart stores
Border Patrol official who is the face of Trump's crackdown back in Chicago amid immigration raids
Maryland to consider slavery reparations after Gov. Wes Moore's veto is overridden
Trump orders blockade of 'sanctioned oil tankers' into Venezuela, ramping up pressure on Maduro
Christensen and Rashford give Barcelona win over 3rd-tier club Guadalajara in Copa del Rey
Former NIH scientist sues Trump administration, claims illegal firing over research cuts
Last US cents sold at auction for a sum of $16.76 million were worth a pretty penny
Commanders QB Jayden Daniels frustrated and disappointed by injuries he calls 'freak accidents'
Trio of Russian athletes barred from luge World Cup in Lake Placid amid neutrality concerns