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Kabosu, the internet-famous dog who inspired the "doge" meme and influenced digital culture for a decade, is seriously ill with leukemia and liver disease.

Arizona Cardinals defensive end J.J. Watt will retire after the 2022 season, the three-time NFL Defensive Player of the Year announced on Tuesday. Watt said he played his "last ever" home game this past Sunday, a 19-16 overtime loss to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

2022 was supposed to be a triumphant year for China and its leader Xi Jinping, as he began his second decade in power with a pledge to restore the nation to greatness.

The future for migrants waiting in El Paso, Texas, after crossing the US-Mexico border remains uncertain following the Supreme Court's Wednesday decision that allows federal officials to continue expelling migrants before they have received an asylum hearing.

For Andrei Soldatov and his friends, February 24 marked the end of Russia as they knew it.

President Joe Biden spent hours during his first foreign trip behind closed doors, attempting to reassure a shaken group of US allies that America was back. It was clear, he later told advisers, just how much work remained to convince them of the durability of that commitment.

The family of an Iranian soccer great was prevented by authorities in the Islamic Republic from leaving the country on Monday.

On December 27, 2020, 17-year-old Zach Didier died from fentanyl poisoning. Didier bought the deadly opioid from a drug dealer he met on Snapchat, thinking it was a pain reliever, according to Didier's parents, Chris and Laura. They open up about the details with CNN's Josh Campbell.

Many winter holiday travelers in the United States have had a real rough go of it -- and they have some real humdinger stories to tell.

Heavy coastal rain and mountain snow from a potent atmospheric river are falling across the western United States, with more to come later this week.

• Analysis: Why Southwest is melting down • How a stranded South Korean tour group found shelter in an unlikely place • Nationwide winter-storm related death toll is now more than 50

GOP Rep.-elect George Santos is facing growing condemnation from House Democrats, some of whom have called on him to step aside, and even from some corners of the GOP, with at least one of his fellow incoming Republicans calling for him to face an ethics investigation. House GOP leadership, however, remains silent over revelations that the New York Republican lied about parts of his biography. 

A Buffalo woman saved a disabled man's life after she found him severely frostbitten and crying out for help during a deadly winter storm. CNN's Gary Tuchman reports.

A Maricopa County judge on Tuesday ordered Arizona Republican Kari Lake to compensate Democratic Gov.-elect Katie Hobbs for some legal fees related to the election lawsuit Lake had brought challenging her loss, but he stopped short of sanctioning Lake for filing the lawsuit.

CNN's Gloria Borger and legal analyst Jennifer Rodgers react to newly-released testimony from Cassidy Hutchinson, a top aide to former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, in which she told the January 6 committee that she saw Meadows burn documents on multiple occasions at the White House.

Days into a deadly winter storm that bedeviled much of the country, officials in Buffalo, New York, are focused on restoring power, plowing roads and checking homes and cars for anyone still stranded, with expectations more residents will be found dead.

Sudden flooding caused immediate evacuation for tourists visiting a World Heritage Site in Petra, Jordan.

• Kherson hospital hit by Russian shelling, Ukrainian official says • Putin bans Russian oil exports to countries that imposed price caps, Kremlin