US & World

By Josh Pennington, Sandi Sidhu, Jennifer Hansler, Haley Britzky and Alex Marquardt, CNN (CNN) — A retired US Army Special Forces soldier has…

By Chris Lau, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — A Chinese stand-up comedian has canceled all his performances after a joke he made with a loose reference…

By Rhea Mogul, Teele Rebane, Salai TZ and Jen Deaton, CNN (CNN) — Hundreds of people are feared to have died after a powerful cyclone hit…

By Tatiana Arias, Tara Subramaniam and Irene Nasser CNN (CNN) — Authorities in New Zealand have arrested a suspect in relation to a fire at a…

By Eric Cheung, CNN Taipei, Taiwan (CNN) — Taiwan’s legislature passed a bill Tuesday that granted same-sex couples the right to jointly…

By Josh Pennington, Tim Lister, Kostan Nechyporenko, Olga Voitovych, Ivana Kottasová and Yulia Kesaieva, CNN Kyiv, Ukraine (CNN) — One after…

By Stephanie Busari, CNN (CNN) — Nigerian chef Hilda Effiong Bassey has become a national sensation after cooking nonstop for 100 hours, in an…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN Astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope to observe a rare comet in our solar system, making a long-awaited…

By Zoe Sottile, CNN The world’s oldest dog is living it up in his 30s. Bobi, a Portuguese pooch who was declared the world’s oldest dog…

By Nic Robertson, CNN Scrambling out of a Soviet-era armored troop carrier, the first thing we look for is shelter from attack. There are no…

By Katie Hunt, CNN An international team of scientists mapped nearly the entire human genome for the first time two decades ago, cracking the genetic…

By Mindy Weisberger, CNN A frog that looks like it’s made of tempered chocolate. A rainbow-colored fish that dwells in the ocean’s…

By Kristen Rogers, CNN A large international team of researchers has identified nine groups of newly described butterflies, and one colorful genus…

By Mostafa Salem, Anna Chernova and Isil Sariyuce, CNN Turkey’s main opposition candidate Kemal Kilicdaroglu has accused Russia of interfering…

By Elliott Gotkine, Ibrahim Dahman, Abeer Salman, Richard Allen Greene, Alex Stambaugh and Sana Noor Haq, CNN Palestinian militants launched rockets…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN Astronomers have spotted the largest cosmic explosion ever witnessed, and it’s 10 times brighter than any known…

By Mindy Weisberger, CNN Very large things often have small beginnings. That certainly was true for brontotheres, the enormous, rhino-like…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN Giant solar balloons were sent 70,000 feet up in the air to record sounds of Earth’s stratosphere — and the…

By Radina Gigova and Laura Paddison, CNN Wildfires raging in Russia’s Ural Mountains killed at least 21 people and hospitalized several others,…

By Laura Paddison, CNN The window to prevent catastrophic climate change is closing. Concentrations of planet-warming carbon pollution in the air are…

By Jackie Wattles, CNN Vast — a California-based startup and one of the newest entrants in the world of privatized spaceflight — plans to use a…