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Former president George H.W. Bush has been hospitalized, his spokesman told CNN early Wednesday morning.

The extradition of Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman to the United States is the latest among famous US extradition cases. Here is a look at several.

The last time most of us heard about the Dakota Access Pipeline, protesters in the subfreezing December cold were cheering the US Army's decision to temporarily prohibit its construction under Lake Oahe.

If Hamilton fans can't get enough of their favorite Broadway musical, they now can bid to own a personal letter and manuscripts of the Caribbean-born, French- and Scottish-heritaged founding father Alexander Hamilton.

On January 9, after an investigation lasting over 21 months, a Senate subcommittee published a scathing report, finding that classified ads website Backpage.com knowingly facilitated online child sex trafficking on the "adult" section of its website.

Chicago just ended its deadliest year in nearly two decades.

Chelsea Manning thanked Barack Obama on Thursday after the President commuted the sentence of the former Army soldier earlier this week. "Thank you @BarackObama for giving me a chance. =,)," she tweeted.

We're not going to lie; it happens to all of us when we tweet - the errant punctuation, the embarrassing typo. But Donald Trump is our tweeter-in-chief. He types 140 characters; he sends journalists into a tizzy. The rest of us can only wish we had that kind of impact (or followers). So, here are a few Twitter tips to help PEOTUS polish up his almighty feed (and for him to RT!)

Alexis Manigo has accepted what police say -- that she was born as Kamiyah Mobley and that the woman who raised her in South Carolina stole her as a newborn from a Florida hospital.

Flip through 100 moments from eight years of the Obama presidency. CNN Films presents "The End: Inside the Last Days of the Obama White House" Wednesday Jan. 18 at 9P ET/PT.

Ash Carter, President Barack Obama's defense secretary, did not agree with one of Obama's final decisions as President: commuting the sentence of convicted leaker Chelsea Manning.

There's been a lot of talk about words lately -- like "Make America great again" and "Yes we can."

President Barack Obama is taking reporters' questions for the final time Wednesday from the White House briefing room, his last official event before Donald Trump replaces him in two days.

Sen. Chris Murphy talks to CNN's Erin Burnett about Donald Trump's education secretary nominee, Betsy DeVos, and the issue of guns on school campuses.

South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley, tapped by President-elect Donald Trump to be UN ambassador, questioned Wednesday at her Senate confirmation hearing whether the US's funding of the world body is worth it.