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President Trump's speech to Congress on Tuesday began with references to the threats against Jewish community centers and last week's violence targeting two Indian-American engineers in Olathe, Kansas, which is being investigated as a hate crime.

Scientists claim to have discovered the remains of microorganisms in Canada that are at least 3.77 billion years old. If they are proven to have a biological origin, they would be the oldest microfossils ever found.

At least two people are dead after a string of tornadoes ripped through the Midwest on Tuesday.

Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham said what President Trump is doing with his immigration plan is a good thing because he is getting the "bad hombres" out.

Cosmetic procedures are still increasingly popular in the United States, and a new report shows that most Americans are going under the knife to either change their faces or get rid of fat.

The two PricewaterhouseCoopers accountants at the center of Sunday's best picture fiasco have worked their final Oscars ceremony, an Academy spokesperson said.

Twenty-five minutes before President Donald Trump was due to be introduced into the House Chamber for his first address to Congress, the speech he was set to deliver was typed, bound and in his hands for delivery.

The man accused of fatally shooting a police officer and another man last month in Whittier, California, was charged Wednesday with two counts of murder.

A burglar was caught on surveillance creeping around a Miami home, even walking past the sleeping homeowner.

Referring to President Donald Trump and his first speech to a joint session of Congress, CNN Political Commentator Van Jones says it amounts to a "prettier wrapper on the same poison."

Hill lawmakers on both sides of the aisle had a similar reaction to President Donald Trump's talk of a grand immigration reform compromise: We'll believe that when we see it.

Jon Stewart joins Stephen Colbert to talk about Donald Trump's relationship with the media and give the media some advice.

The death of Navy SEAL Ryan Owens during a raid in Yemen has elicited different responses from lawmakers, the White House and the Owens family.

The death of Srinivas Kuchibhotla at the hands of a Kansas gunman, in what feds are investigating as a hate crime, shook many across the nation.

Is the White House going to give more authority to the Pentagon when it comes to targeting terrorists? CNN's Barbara Starr reports.

It's been a whirlwind couple of weeks for Gary Alan Coe.

Here is a look at the life of award winning singer, songwriter and pianist Fats Domino.

It's no big deal, the thinking goes, that the Senate seems likely to confirm Judge Neil Gorsuch for the Supreme Court, as President Trump urged in his speech Tuesday night.

Former Utah governor and 2012 GOP presidential candidate Jon Huntsman is in discussions to be US ambassador to Russia, a senior administration official told CNN.

Russian and Syrian regime pilots bombed Syrian villages that "they thought were held by ISIS" -- but were in fact occupied by US-backed coalition forces, a US general said Wednesday.