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Sara Sidner speaks with Jihyun Park, who grew up in North Korea and twice escaped the country, alongside South Korean writer Seh-lynn Chai. Their new book is "The Hard Road Out".

This is a true tale of Taylors, as actor Taylor Lautner's wife, Taylor Dome, was all of us with her reaction to him spilling tea about that infamous Taylor Swift and Kanye West MTV VMAs moment.

The season of Twitter shakeups isn't over yet.

The US is tracking a suspected Chinese high-altitude surveillance balloon over the continental United States, defense officials said on Thursday, a discovery that risks adding further strain to tense US-China relations.

America's major automakers are getting back into Formula 1 racing. Following General Motors' recent announcement that it's applying, along with Andretti Global, to field a team in the prestigious racing series, Ford has now announced that it's getting back into the sport to help build engines.

News that the Pentagon is monitoring a suspected Chinese surveillance balloon in the skies over the continental United States raises a series of questions -- not least among them, what exactly it might be doing.

Nearly three years after the pandemic began, American offices are finally more than halfway filled again as workers have gradually returned to the office.

In this episode of CNN's digital series, "History Refocused," Nicquel Terry Ellis outlines the anti-abortion movement's historical links to White supremacy and how the overturning of Roe v. Wade has reopened a conversation about racial equality.

Rep. Jim Jordan, one of the GOP's most vocal partisans and now the chair of the powerful Judiciary Committee, started a recent meeting on the "weaponization" of the federal government with a surprising move: He urged caution.

A large curvaceous, reflective sculpture by Anish Kapoor that was commissioned for a prominent street corner in Lower Manhattan back in 2008 has finally been completed. The yet-to-be-titled work, which shares many features with the British artist's iconic "Cloud Gate" sculpture in Chicago — known colloquially as "the bean" — is now shining crisply at the corner of Church and Leonard streets in Tribeca.

• China claims balloon over the US is a weather research 'civilian airship' that blew off course • What the Chinese balloon may be spying on • Families of US detainees in China urge Blinken to make them 'number one' priority on his trip

World-famous fashion designer Paco Rabanne has died at the age of 88.

Police are looking for a man they say entered a San Francisco synagogue and fired several apparently blank rounds before running away.

An NFL fan has started an online petition to allow the mother of Travis and Jason Kelce, Donna, to perform the coin toss ahead of Super Bowl LVII.

The footage of Tyre Nichols' deadly police arrest is hard to watch, but for those who have survived brutal police encounters, it can be unbearable.

• Unemployment rate falls to 3.4% from 3.5%, hitting a level not seen since before Neil Armstrong stepped on the moon • Teachers are leaving. Lowering professional qualifications doesn't fix shortage, educators say