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Sometimes when a complex mess suffers an added complication, it can in fact make matters simpler -- such is the case in northern Syria now.

What would you do to avoid paying more taxes? Legally, that is.

Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson has filed administrative charges seeking to fire six officers involved in the fatal shooting of Chicago teenager Laquan McDonald in 2014, Chicago police said Tuesday.

A five-day-old newborn peers out from a pink blanket. His dark, almond-shaped eyes stare directly at the camera, his tiny hand tucked underneath his chin.

Nine bodies were found in a home for the elderly in the town of Iwaizumi in Iwate Prefecture, which suffered flooding following Typhoon Lionrock, police tell CNN.

CNN Terrorism analyst Paul Cruickshank looks at the announced death of ISIS spokesman and deputy Mohammad al-Adnani.

One caller reports that a friend just texted him to say he'd been shot and was in the bathroom at Pulse in Orlando. Another man calls to say he safely fled after gunshots erupted at the popular nightclub.

Joe Sutter, who led the engineering team that developed the world's original jumbo jet in the 1960s, died Tuesday at the age of 95, Boeing said.

It's impossible for me to forget Mother Teresa -- soon to be Saint Teresa of Kolkata. She gave me a chance to escape poverty and live a different destiny in England.

Chris Brown's troubled past has led to public scrutiny and legal battles, and a recent incident with the police has people once again talking

A conservative talk radio show in Chicago found out what Donald Trump supporters expect from his immigration policy speech. CNN's Randi Kaye reports.

From flowers locked in ice to space-age pine trees, Japanese artist Makoto Azuma has built a career from a "new genre of art" that blends plants with artificial mediums to strikingly beautiful effect.

Astronomers engaged in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) are training their instruments on a star around 94 light years from Earth after a very strong signal was detected by a Russian telescope.

A freshly made white chocolate and raspberry mix is carefully poured into a piping bag by chef Yasumasa Takagi, one of Japan's foremost patissiers.

Maine Gov. Paul LePage said Tuesday that he is considering resigning in the wake of a profanity-laced voicemail he left for a state representative last week.

The FBI expects to publicly release as soon as Wednesday the report the bureau sent to the Justice Department in July recommending no charges in the Hillary Clinton email server investigation, according to multiple law enforcement officials.

In an interview with CNN's Anderson Cooper, Donald Trump Jr. hit back against accusations that his father had flip-flopped on the hardline immigration policy he pushed during the primaries when he appeared to poll an audience during a town hall with Fox News' Sean Hannity.

Pep Bonet started documenting the rock 'n' roll scene in 2008. He photographed the British band Motorhead, spending years on the road with legendary singer Lemmy Kilmister.

A record 6,958 refugees and migrants were plucked from flimsy inflatable dinghies and wooden fishing boats on the central Mediterranean Sea during a 30-hour period starting Monday.