Twenty-two years ago, humanity was teetering on the fulcrum of a new era. Our love affair with technology still felt glamorous and new, the internet a vast frontier full of danger and promise. Yes, we knew there may be troubles down the road, but the consequences of climate change and geopolitical friction were problems for another day. Another millennium, even. As we looked to the year 2000 -- that monumental Y2K -- we saw both apocalypse and rebirth.
A blast of severe winter weather last week caused thousands of Southwest Airlines flight cancellations and spiraled into a complete meltdown of its flight system. In the days since, the carrier's scramble to recover has been slow and, some passengers argue, largely unsuccessful. But experts say Southwest's mess is actually the culmination of issues that have been building over several years.
Patrick Holland had only been on the heart transplant list for a few weeks when he said he got a call last Thursday from the University of Washington Medical Center in Seattle that a donor match had been found.
A former Minneapolis police officer is charged with assaulting a man during nighttime civil unrest following the death of George Floyd in May 2020, according to a complaint filed Wednesday.
A top White House lawyer told two leading Republicans the oversight requests they issued during the last Congress would have to be reissued once the GOP assumes their House majority next week.
Adam Driver and writer-director Noah Baumbach follow their collaboration on the dour "Marriage Story" with a considerably quirkier Netflix movie in "White Noise," a faithful adaptation of Don DeLillo's 1985 novel that loses a great deal in translation. Baumbach's pandemic-inspired undertones resonate on that level, but it's played in such stilted fashion as to make "White Noise" pretty easy to tune out.
As authorities in Buffalo, New York, continue following up on hundreds of calls for help made during and since the historic weekend blizzard -- a "grueling, gruesome task" that's revealed people dead in cars and snowbanks -- officials are facing tough questions about their handling of storm preparations and the disaster response.
Benjamin Netanyahu Thursday completed a dramatic return as Israel's prime minister, after being sworn in as the leader of what is likely to be the country's most right-wing government in history.
Elaine Chao, who worked as the Transportation Secretary in the Trump administration, says she will not respond to former President Donald Trump calling her a racist name.
Callie Blue, a waitress at a diner outside Madison, Wisconsin, never expected one of her customers to leave her a generous tip. Then she met Michael Johnson on Christmas Day. CNN affiliate Spectrum News Madison has more.
CNN's Poppy Harlow talks to Patrick Holland, a 57-year-old Alaska man battling congestive heart failure, who says last week's winter storm that battered much of the US and led to thousands of flight cancellations cost him the opportunity to get a heart transplant.
Songwriter Burt Freeman Bacharach shares the moment he discovered Dionne Warwick. The CNN Film "Dionne Warwick: Don't Make Me Over" airs Sunday, January 1, at 9 p.m. ET.
Six-time Grammy winner Dionne Warwick is famous for her songs "Walk On By," "I Say A Little Prayer," and "What The World Needs Now." The documentary about her career airs Sunday, January 1, at 9 p.m. ET.
