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An explosion at a fireworks market in Tultepec, Mexico, has killed at least 22 people and injured dozens. A similar incident occurred at the same market in 2005. CNN's Ed Lavandera reports

Mark Wahlberg gives CNN's Jake Tapper behind-the-scenes details about directing and starring in the film "Patriots Day," which portrays the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing.

An explosion at a large fireworks market near Mexico City injured at least 60 people, according to the coordinator of Mexico's national civil protection agency.

By announcing a new offshore drilling ban, President Obama seeks to secure his legacy on the environment before Donald Trump takes office. CNN's Rene Marsh reports.

A day after truck plowed through a Christmas market in one of Berlin's busiest shopping areas, killing 12 people, no one is disputing that it was a deliberate act. Yet German authorities initially appeared reluctant to describe the incident as an act of terrorism.

Data brokers, which mine your online activity and spending habits, haven't said whether or not they would help the incoming administration create discriminatory databases. So we asked.

Gregory Gunn. Alton Sterling. Philando Castile. Terence Crutcher. Those are just a few of the names of black men who were killed in high-profile police shootings in 2016.

Even after her suicide, the family of Brandy Vela says the teenager is still being harassed by online bullies. HLN's Erica Hill spoke with Vela's father and sister.

Dr. Ashish Jha talks to HLN's Erica Hill about the revelation he found after studying a national sample of older Americans and their doctors.

An attorney for Ahmad Rahimi, who is accused of planting bombs that detonated in New York and New Jersey, pleaded not guilty Tuesday on his client's behalf to charges in connection with the shootout with police that lead to his capture.

Donald Trump revealed newfound admiration for Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim Tuesday, praising one of the most powerful men in America's southern neighbor after previously characterizing him as part of a global anti-Trump conspiracy.

As a divinity school student, I had just started working as a student chaplain at a cancer hospital when my professor asked me about my work. I was 26 years old and still learning what a chaplain did.

Human error caused the November 28 plane crash that killed 71 people, including members of the Brazilian soccer team Chapecoense, the Bolivian government said Tuesday. LaMia Flight 2933 was flying from Santa Cruz, Bolivia, to Medellin, Columbia, when it crashed into a hillside near Medellin.

This year's edition of the never-ending, always-expanding Astral Plane Pop & Jazz Festival was, as you can guess, very special in its range and (you'll pardon the expression) dimension. There seemed to be a LOT more additional newly deceased music immortals joining the ensemble in 2016, and we may end up leaving some big names out.

This holiday week erupted in an extraordinarily violent start, with high-profile attacks in four cities on Sunday and Monday.

Two of President-elect Donald Trump's top Cabinet picks -- and those with the most potential roadblocks to confirmation -- have begun to provide the Senate committees that will need to approve their nominations with vetting documents.

When Scott Pruitt and I assembled a Restoring Federalism Task Force last year, he headlined the plan: "Putting Washington In Its Place." Those five words sum up exactly what the American people were clamoring for in this election: a dramatic shift of power out of a broken Washington and back into the hands of the people.

Queen Elizabeth II's reign over English and Welsh rugby is at an end, with the sport's royal seal of approval passing on to a new generation.

President-elect Donald Trump is "closely monitoring" the aftermath of the terrorist attacks in Germany and Turkey.

A desperate operation to evacuate thousands of Syrians from eastern Aleppo could be completed by Wednesday, Turkey has claimed.