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Germany's trade surplus reached a new record of €252.9 billion ($270 billion) in 2016, the largest gap between exports and imports since the country's statistical agency started keeping records.

When Nikki Haley delivered her maiden speech before the UN Security Council last week, a collective dropping of jaws might have been heard both in European capitals and in the offices of multilateral institutions such as NATO.

Last year, Scott Kelly returned from a year aboard the ISS as part of the NASA Twins Study. The findings could help humanity travel to Mars.

Washington has never been this bad.

A vocal critic of Russian president Vladimir Putin, who says he was poisoned in 2015, has awoken from a medically induced coma after being hospitalized in Moscow last week, his wife tells CNN.

Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham says the silencing of Sen. Elizabeth Warren on the Senate floor Tuesday was "long overdue."

Another high-profile Trump administration official has made statements about a terror attack that never occurred.

Excavations on the storied Judean cliffside revealed a new Dead Sea Scrolls cave, full of scroll storage jars and other antiquities, the first such discovery in over 60 years.

Todd Chrisley knows there is lots of speculation that he is gay and he is so fine with that.

A county-by-county survey of Washington state conducted by CNN on Wednesday found 400 confirmed and probable cases of mumps since October. Mumps is a contagious disease caused by a virus spread from person to person through saliva and mucus.

A federal judge has blocked Anthem's attempt to acquire Cigna in what would have created the largest health insurer in the nation.

From Moscow to Monrovia, there's a new guessing game: What's going on with US foreign policy?

The idea is simple, popular and effective: Make a bad thing -- polluting the atmosphere -- more expensive; and therefore make it cheaper for people and businesses to live cleaner.

Megalodon may be extinct, but other sharks have been making headlines lately.

Jeb, a much-loved service dog for an elderly man, was locked up in animal control when the judge's verdict came in: He would be put to death for killing a neighbor's dog.

Good morning. And if you're a school kid in the Northeast, happy snow day!! Whether you're grabbing a sled or headed to the office, here's what you need to know to Get Up to Speed and Out the Door.

President Donald Trump -- even as he blasted lawyers contesting his immigration executive order -- detailed for the first time Wednesday his own hesitations about the controversial plan before it was signed.

A US military raid in Yemen that killed civilians and a Navy SEAL has proven another political headache for US President Donald Trump just days into his presidency.

Archaeologists found new Dead Sea Scrolls inside a cave. They also found pottery shards, broken scroll storage jars and neolithic flint tools and arrowheads. They think the new cave was looted around the 1950s.

Senate Republicans Wednesday strongly defended their decision to employ a rarely-used and arcane Senate rule to cut off Sen. Elizabeth Warren late Tuesday, even though the move has turned into a publicity bonanza for the progressive senator and brought fresh attention to longstanding Democratic concerns about attorney general nominee Sen. Jeff Sessions.