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Reddit investors have been the butt of many jokes over the last few years, but could these much-maligned meme traders have the last laugh?

An adorable toddler lights up the internet sniffing candles to review them. CNN's Jeanne Moos is on the scent.

Mortgage rates edged further toward 7%, rising for the fifth consecutive week, as the Federal Reserve suggests rate increases will continue amid stubborn inflation.

For expectant parents Shakina Rajendram and Kevin Nadarajah, the doctor's words were both definitive and devastating: Their twins were not "viable."

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Cara Delevingne has revealed that she's four months sober, saying "sometimes you need a reality check."

Last month, I had the honor of joining a fourth-grade class on their field trip to Fort Monroe — to the very spot where more than 400 years ago the first enslaved Africans touched American soil. We focused on the transformation and contradiction that Fort Monroe represents — as the origin of the evils of slavery in the US and then as a refuge for freedom during the Civil War. We talked honestly about Virginia's and America's history — the good and the bad.

Lithium-ion batteries, found in many popular consumer products, are under scrutiny again following a massive fire this week in New York City thought to be caused by the battery that powered an electric scooter.

For more than 90 years, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has been designating one film as the best motion picture of the year.

The US and its allies have blocked or seized more than $58 billion worth of assets owned or controlled by sanctioned Russians in the past year as Western governments continue to dial up the pressure over the Kremlin's invasion of Ukraine, according to a joint statement from a multinational sanctions enforcement task force.

Russian President Vladimir Putin sat across from his defense minister in the Kremlin last April, slouched in his seat and gripping the table. They were discussing Russia's siege of the Azovstal Iron and Steel Works plant in the strategic city of Mariupol, in southeastern Ukraine.

General Motors said in January it would save $2 billion without planning any layoffs. But on Thursday it said it was looking for workers to leave voluntarily.

Attorneys for former President Donald Trump are at the federal courthouse in Washington on Thursday for a sealed proceeding on whether his defense attorney must answer more questions from a grand jury, according to a source familiar with the proceeding.

Chaim Topol, the actor best known for playing Tevye in "Fiddler on the Roof," has died, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has announced. He was 87.