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American citizen Anne Sacoolas was sentenced to eight months imprisonment, suspended for 12 months, at the Old Bailey in London for causing the death of British teenager Harry Dunn in a fatal traffic collision in August 2019, meaning she will not have to go to jail.
Russia has released WNBA player Brittney Griner in a prisoner swap for Viktor Bout, nicknamed the "Merchant of Death" by his accuser. He was serving a 25-year prison sentence in the United States on charges of conspiring to kill Americans. He has maintained his innocence.
An unusual bright blast of light detected by multiple telescopes in December 2021 was the result of a rare cosmic explosion that created a wealth of heavy elements such as gold and platinum.
Iran has executed a man for injuring a paramilitary officer in the first known execution linked to protests that have swept the country since September, state media reported Thursday.
A bottleneck is building across an important trading route for oil, which if left unresolved could knock global supply and boost prices at a fragile moment for energy markets.
Elisabeth Finch, who had served as a writer and consulting producer on ABC's hit series "Grey's Anatomy," has given an interview in which she admitted that she lied about her health and personal life.
Cherelle Griner, wife of WNBA star Brittney Griner, speaks at the White House after President Biden announced that Russia released Griner from prison in exchange for convicted arms dealer Viktor Bout.
For the busiest of business travelers, who regularly find themselves called to fly to a string of countries at short notice, up-to-date information on which countries require visas or electronic travel authorizations (eTAs) is essential.
Celine Dion is postponing several Europe tour dates after the recent diagnosis of a rare neurological disorder that doesn't allow her "to sing the way I'm used to," she announced.
A federal judge in California on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit against reality TV star Kim Kardashian, boxing legend Floyd Mayweather Jr. and others over their role in promoting a cryptocurrency, saying it was not clear that the investors who sued actually saw the promotions.
• Philadelphia police reveal identity of child found dead inside a box 65 years ago
• US citizen Anne Sacoolas handed suspended sentence for causing death of British teenager Harry Dunn
It's bad news for Buffalo Bills pass rusher Von Miller, who will have to sit out the remainder of the 2022 season because of a torn anterior cruciate ligament (ACL).
Prince Harry and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex's controversial Netflix documentary has been released on the streaming platform, with the couple promising to recall their experiences of their bitter split from the British royal family.
Workers across China have dismantled some of the physical signs of the country's zero-Covid controls, peeling health code scanning signs off metro station walls and closing some checkpoints after the government unveiled an overhaul of its pandemic policy.
A Virginia school superintendent was fired Tuesday, a day after a report from the state accused him of lying about a sexual assault involving a student in May 2021.
The Taliban on Wednesday put an alleged murderer to death in the first public execution held in Afghanistan since the Islamist group returned to power.
The lights flickered back on in homes, businesses and along streets in a North Carolina county Wednesday after a dayslong outage caused by what authorities have described as targeted gun attacks on power substations.
As he prepares to leave the National Institutes of Health after 54 years of public service as the nation's top doctor of infectious disease, Dr. Fauci reflected on the ups and downs throughout his career.
Federal prosecutors announced charges Wednesday against a Florida state representative who allegedly swindled thousands of dollars in coronavirus relief loans from the Small Business Administration.
After much speculation over the fate of Netflix's docuseries "Harry & Meghan," the first three episodes finally arrive Thursday, offering an intimate look at the lives of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex and, as the trailers suggest, further insight into why they stepped down from their royal duties.
In the wake of the loss of former President Donald Trump's hand picked challenger Herschel Walker to Sen. Raphael Warnock in the Georgia Senate race, the Republican blame-game has begun.
An intercepted phone call between a Russian soldier and his mother reveals conditions on the front lines of Russian President Vladimir Putin's war in Ukraine.
Nineteen-year-old Isabella Zaldaña dreams of becoming a nurse. And as a student at this city's selective Manhattan Hunter Science High School, she was on her way.
American democracy -- and the evolving way in which it is executed -- is facing a series of fundamental questions beyond former Donald Trump's election denialism.
People are moving in droves to places with a high risk of climate disasters, researchers say, despite extreme weather events increasing in frequency and intensity in recent years.
A 24-hour strike at The New York Times, a historic demonstration in which more than 1,100 employees are expected to participate, will take effect Thursday at midnight, after management and the union representing staffers failed to reach an agreement for a new contract after more than a year and a half of negotiating.
The jury who convicted Donald Trump's namesake companies earlier this week was "serious" and tried to focus on the law -- not the former president, one of the jurors said in an interview with CNN.
Former President Donald Trump posed for photos at his waterfront club on Tuesday with a prominent QAnon conspiracy theorist, in the latest in a string of incidents that highlight the GOP candidate's proximity to fringe figures on the far right.
Audio obtained by CNN shows Texas's top law enforcement agency knew children were trapped in Robb Elementary more than 30 minutes before anyone shot the gunman and rescued them. CNN's Shimon Prokupecz reports.
Ukrainian officials and lawmakers have in recent months urged the Biden administration and members of Congress to provide the Ukrainian military with cluster munition warheads, weapons that are banned by more than 100 countries but that Russia continues to use to devastating effect inside Ukraine.
Doctors know that drugs called statins lower a person's risk of a stroke due to a blood clot. But a new study shows that the inexpensive medications can also decrease the risk of a first stroke as a result of an intracerebral hemorrhage, the deadliest kind.
As China slowly begins to roll back its zero-Covid policy, CNN's Ivan Watson speaks with experts about how China's elderly are at a higher risk of winter Covid surge and how the country has failed to prepare its residents for the roll back.
Former Republican Rep. David Rivera of Florida was arrested in Atlanta on Monday on federal charges that include failing to register as a foreign agent and conspiracy to commit money laundering, according to the Department of Justice.
New retirement rules could make it easier for Americans to accumulate retirement savings — and less costly to withdraw them — if lawmakers pass a retirement reform package before the end of the month.
Ramesh "Sunny" Balwani, the former chief operating officer of failed blood testing startup Theranos, was sentenced Wednesday to nearly 13 years in prison for fraud, according to Reuters. It marks an end to the stunning downfall of a high-flying Silicon Valley company that resulted in the rare convictions of two tech executives.
Uvalde County Sheriff Ruben Nolasco rushed toward Robb Elementary School when calls came in that a man was firing his gun after crashing his pickup truck on May 24.
Jennifer Lawrence shared her thoughts on the history of female-led action movies in a new interview, but the "Hunger Games" star is getting some flack for not quite getting it right.
Jaylen Smith graduated from high school in May. Less than a year later, the 18-year-old will be tasked with governing Earle, Arkansas, as the rural city's newly elected mayor.
American work culture is having an identity crisis. Are we a #riseandgrind people or are we #QuietQuitting? Are we, as Elon Musk and Sam Bankman-Fried have modeled, going so "extremely hardcore" that we're willing to sleep at the office? Or are we evolving, recognizing the toxicity of hustle culture and finally setting boundaries?
After fleeing the Taliban takeover of her home country of Afghanistan in 2021, Yalda Azamee thought her dreams came true when she was accepted to two of America's top universities.
Atlanta Police have arrested two teenagers in connection to a shooting last month that left a 12-year-old and 15-year-old dead, Deputy Chief Charles Hampton said in a news conference Wednesday.
During an on-air race on TNT's "Inside the NBA", Kenny Smith pushed co-host Shaquille O'Neal into a Christmas tree. It's not the first time this has happened either.
In this week's episode of "Unfiltered," SE Cupp examines what's really driving Republican losses in critical states like Georgia -- and argues that the party and its pundits cannot seem to reckon with that truth.
This year's most expensive US Senate race in the country -- over $380 million spent through the end of November -- is finally over. Georgia's incumbent Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock, pastor at Atlanta's historic Ebenezer Baptist Church, won the December 6 runoff against his Republican challenger, former University of Georgia football star Herschel Walker.
There were no active drugs found in actress Anne Heche's system at the time of her car crash in August, according to a Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner report released Tuesday.
Amateur paleontologists in Queensland, Australia uncovered a rare,100 million-year-old marine reptile's skeleton that could provide vital clues about prehistoric life.
The Justice Department's Office of the Inspector General released a report on Wednesday outlining how a series of mistakes by the embattled Bureau of Prisons led to the beating death of imprisoned Boston gangster and convicted murderer James "Whitey" Bulger four years ago.
• Listen: Supreme Court oral arguments
• Chief Justice Roberts eyes an offramp and a way to avoid major constitutional changes
• 5 takeaways from Georgia's Senate runoff
• Opinion: What Warnock's victory means for the Democratic Party
Thousands of customers looking to purchase an item on Amazon early Wednesday encountered an error message on the e-commerce site's checkout page, a rare issue for a platform that has become even more of a central shopping hub for countless households during the pandemic.
Iran's former president Mohammad Khatami has urged the current government to be more lenient with protesters, amid ongoing nationwide demonstrations representing the biggest challenge to the Islamic Republic in decades.
The family of fallen US Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick said Wednesday that snubbing GOP leaders during a congressional gold medal ceremony was not for partisan reasons, but an "integrity issue."
Nearly two dozen shell casings from a high-powered rifle have been recovered from the sites where gunfire disabled two North Carolina electric substations and left much of a county without electricity service for days, according to law enforcement sources. CNN's Whitney Wild reports.
The timing could not have been sweeter for Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman. Just hours before China's President Xi Jinping was due to arrive in the Saudi kingdom for a state visit, a US judge essentially announced what much of the world has come to realize in 2022: the immunity of the comeback Crown Prince.
CNN's Poppy Harlow and Don Lemon speak with the family of fallen US Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick, after they snubbed Republican leaders Sen. Mitch McConnell and Rep. Kevin McCarthy at a ceremony held to honor law enforcement who defended the US Capitol during the January 6, 2021, insurrection.
During the fall harvest, across rural America, you may at times encounter a mechanical convoy of combine harvesters rumbling down the road, headed who knows where. As likely as not, the drivers of these huge machines are going to a farm they don't know to harvest a crop they never planted for a farmer they've never met. And they do this without asking for a penny in return.
Lawyers for former President Donald Trump recently hired a team to search four of his properties for any potentially remaining classified materials, according to a source familiar the matter.
