CNN Top Stories

Four weeks after the election, tensions between top operatives at the Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton campaigns erupted during a Harvard Kennedy School Institute of Politics discussion that was intended to record history by drawing out the internal deliberations of both campaigns.

Many of Africa's leaders are turning up for Fidel Castro's funeral in what reads like a who's who of the continent's longest-serving presidents.

Sen. Jeff Sessions, Donald Trump's pick to be United States attorney general, launched a public campaign as Alabama attorney general in 1996 to prevent a gay rights group from holding a conference at the University of Alabama, according to a KFile review of contemporaneous press accounts and legal filings.

North Korean state media has released images of leader Kim Jong Un commanding military drills after the UN imposed new embargoes. CNN's Saima Mohsin has more.

Hundreds of thousands of Indonesians took to the streets Friday to protest Jakarta's embattled governor.

A federal jury in Dallas has ordered Johnson & Johnson and its subsidiary DePuy Orthopaedics to pay more than $1 billion to a group of plaintiffs over artificial hip replacements.

It's the weekend! And the Hamilton Mixtape is finally here! YEAH! Here's what else you need to know to Get Up to Speed and Out the Door.

See some of the most memorable selfies taken in 2016.

Take a look at 100 amazing sports photos from the past year.

See photos from the past year in entertainment.

A complicated part of being human: living with the knowledge of your own impending death. So it's somewhat understandable if your mind might have wandered into worst-case-scenario mode that time you had a bad bout of the flu, or thought a weird twinge in your finger was the beginnings of a medical emergency. (Dr. Google certainly doesn't help.)

When you take a trip to Taco Bell, it's probably not because you are in the mood for a salad -- probably not even a taco salad. Chances are, you're craving comfort food or something indulgent, such as a smothered burrito or a hash brown-filled Crunchwrap. It may not surprise you to hear that these foods are far from a dieter's delight.

More than two decades after he was executed for rape and murder, China's top court has found a young man innocent.

Christmas shopping doesn't have to mean joylessly battling through department store crowds or trawling the Internet for bargains.

France's President Francois Hollande confirmed Thursday he will not seek a second term in office.

It's not often that a start-up can claim to be a world-beater from the off. But that's precisely what's happening in the auto industry, where Chinese unknown NextEV has launched what it claims is the world's fastest electric car.

British actor Andrew Sachs, famous for his role as bumbling waiter Manuel in British TV show "Fawlty Towers", has died at the age of 86, the UK's Press Association reported.

The death toll from raging wildfires fires in Sevier County, Tennessee, climbed to seven after authorities recovered three more bodies at a residence, officials said Wednesday.

Take a look at 27 photos of the week from November 25 through December 1.

The United Nations did not do enough to prevent the spread of cholera epidemic in Haiti that killed at least 10,000 people after the 2010 earthquake, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Thursday, in what many saw as an overdue apology.