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Dancing South Korean diplomats have won the hearts of millions of Indians with their viral video performance of Oscar-nominated song "Naatu Naatu," reinforcing Seoul's soft power diplomacy and even earning a nod of approval from India's leader.

Ohio investigators were trying to identify human remains found decades ago when a tip led them to identify the remains of another person found around the same time almost 200 miles away, officials said Monday.

The Navy has renamed a warship in honor of a Black sailor and statesman who had been born into slavery, as part of the US military's ongoing effort to remove names that commemorate the Confederacy.

An aerial view of a volcano, a shot from inside a damaged building in Ukraine and a portrait of a dog are among the best images taken globally in the past year, according to judges of the prestigious Sony World Photography Awards.

For travelers who love to cruise but also consider themselves to be environmentally minded, the concept of "green" cruising can seem counterintuitive.

Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia told CNN Monday he will vote to rescind a controversial Washington, DC, crime law --which critics argue is soft on violent criminals -- when it comes up for a vote in the Senate, likely next week.

Alex Murdaugh's defense in his double murder trial rested its case after calling up 14 witnesses over about two weeks of testimony, crime scene experts and the defendant's brother John Marvin Murdaugh. CNN's Dianne Gallagher reports.

The family of actor Tom Sizemore is currently "deciding end of life matters" following an update from doctors, according to a statement CNN received Monday evening from Sizemore's manager Charles Lago.

CNN's Erin Burnett details the desperation and brutal reality of Russian soldiers as war rages on in Ukraine.

Mexico's President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has dismissed concerns about his plan to shrink the country's electoral watchdog on Monday, accusing protesters of links to drug traffickers.

A ransomware attack on the US Marshals Service has affected a computer system containing "law enforcement sensitive information," including personal information belonging to targets of investigations, a US Marshals Service spokesperson said Monday evening.

The Department of Energy's low-confidence assessment that Covid-19 most likely originated from a laboratory leak in China is still a minority view within the intelligence community, three sources familiar with the intelligence community's findings tell CNN.

The House Judiciary Committee conducted a hearing last week about 2,500 miles southwest of Capitol Hill. Five miles farther, and the committee could have seen all the gaps in the uncompleted border wall.

The chairman of Fox corporation Rupert Murdoch admitted in a deposition taken by Dominion Voting Systems that some Fox News hosts endorsed false claims that the 2020 election was stolen. CNN senior media reporter Oliver Darcy and legal analyst Norm Eisen join Wolf Blitzer to discuss.

An updated intelligence assessment about the origins of the Covid-19 virus has reopened the long-simmering and unsolved debate about how the virus came to be -- and will fuel a new committee House Republicans have created to investigate the issue.

A classified intelligence report from the Department of Energy assesses with low confidence that the Covid-19 pandemic likely came from a leak in a Chinese laboratory. The Chinese are pushing back. CNN's David Culver visits the labs.

CNN's Frederik Pleitgen reports on the conflict in Ukraine as Russian President Vladimir Putin touts success, yet some of his soldiers refuse to fight. 

Millions of Americans have student loan debt, amassing to more than $1.6 trillion by the end of last year, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.