The new president has been in office one week and already the clock is ticking as to whether or not he can get a lot accomplished in the first 100 days of his presidency. Did I miss the memo? I ...

The U.S. president, a policeman and a professor had beers together this week, after an escalating incident that reminded America race still matters. The police officer is Sgt. James Crowley, a ...

After a violent Border Patrol arrest shocks a quiet Illinois neighborhood, CNN’s Shimon Prokupecz meets with the suburban families fighting to keep immigration officers away.

The Manhattan district attorney filed charges early Saturday against 10 people arrested when a protest by New York firefighters rallying against the city's scaled-back World Trade Center recovery ...

Perhaps your history teachers failed to alert you to these Civil War facts: Jefferson Davis nearly got mugged by an angry female mob; Abraham Lincoln loved the Confederate anthem "Dixie," and Paul ...

Clinton won Kentucky by more than 30 points, but Obama's share of the state's 51 delegates was enough put him over the threshold, according to CNN estimates. Obama is expected to ...

He later filed a series of lawsuits against top Bush officials alleging that he was beaten by guards during his six-month detention in solitary confinement, and that officials personally condoned ...

Newly declassified papers documenting negotiations ahead of President Nixon's 1972 visit to China show that Beijing concerns about U.S. spy planes skimming its borders are long-standing. Rather than a ...

Turkey's government slapped manufacturing and media giant Dogan Holding with a massive $2.53 billion fine for unpaid taxes, the conglomerate reported. In a dispute that has often spilled onto the ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has endorsed the United Nations as the "key" unifying factor in the global fight against terror. The president, who is on his first state visit to the United States ...

Swede Ibrahimovic has signed five-year contract with the European champions Cameroon striker Samuel Eto'o moves to the San Siro as part of the transfer (CNN)-- Swedish striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic has ...

Those who snapped up a ticket to the event that has been dubbed "Avatar Day" will be privy to footage of the much-hyped, technically-advanced 3D science fiction epic that some are ...