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In the town of Krasnohorivka, grim Soviet-era apartment buildings stand nearly but not quite empty, with only a few residents remaining. Blocks on the southern edges of town are burned shells, windows shattered and awnings dangling in the winter breeze. Houses are largely shuttered; their tenants long gone. The central square is abandoned and eerie.

After the hoopla Netflix unleashed with "Tiger King," its latest docuseries oddity might involve a different four-footed creature. Like that earlier sensation, "Gunther's Millions" is really about the strange people featured, but its true insights expose how gullible media can be taken in by a too-good-to-be-true (or too-fun-to-fact-check) story -- in this case, a German shepherd with a $400-million trust fund.

Dave Bautista is looking for his next role, and he'd love for it to be a chance to show off his softer side.

Bed Bath and Beyond is closing another 87 stores as the struggling retailer barrels toward bankruptcy.

Tyre Nichols' older sister, Keyana Dixon, paid homage to his life during a funeral service at the Mississippi Boulevard Christian Church in Memphis.

When the Vikings crossed the North Sea to reach Britain in the ninth century AD, they brought their dogs and horses with them, according to new research.

CNN's Fred Pleitgen gets a firsthand look at how Ukrainian troops are fighting against Russian soldiers in the eastern part of Ukraine.

Five major pregnancy complications are strong lifelong risk factors for ischemic heart disease, a new study finds, with the greatest risk coming in the decade after delivery.

Washington is on the type of dramatic collision course on which some politicians thrive.

An Iranian couple, both social media influencers, have been given lengthy prison sentences after a video emerged of them dancing in a main square in the capital Tehran.

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy answered questions following his Wednesday meeting with President Joe Biden, the first such meeting between the two since McCarthy became Speaker.

Tyre Nichols was a father, a man who loved his mama and a free-spirited soul who was looking for a new life in Memphis, Tennessee.

Home invaders tell a family they must make a terrible choice to avert the apocalypse in the new film from M. Night Shyamalan. David Daniel has a look.

Federal law enforcement officials are investigating a US Navy veteran's allegation that Rep. George Santos raised money for a lifesaving surgery for his dying dog only to take off with the money.

Republican attorneys general from 20 states wrote letters to executives at CVS and Walgreens warning the pharmacy chains against using the mail to dispense abortion pills in their states, in a shot against a new Biden administration policy.

Interest rates are higher (again), courtesy of the Federal Reserve, which hiked its benchmark interest rate Wednesday, for the eighth time in a row since last March.

The Federal Reserve unanimously approved a quarter-point interest rate hike Wednesday, slowing the pace of its increases in a clear sign that the central bank is seeing progress in its fierce battle with inflation.