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Jails are not the first place people typically look to for design inspiration. For the most part they are brutalist, utilitarian blocks that are built to house row after row of prison cells and which offer altogether dismal living conditions.

House Speaker Paul Ryan believes President Donald Trump's attempt to mend relations with Russia is understandable yet doomed to fail.

Jorge Perez is happy to build buildings -- and he builds a lot of them around the world -- but not President Donald Trump's border wall.

Violence has erupted on the edge of Paris and spread to at least five nearby towns amid a public outcry over the alleged rape of a young black man by police.

Despite widespread global problems like hunger and malaria, Bill Gates has an optimistic outlook on the planet's future -- along with a few ideas on how to make it even better. In this video series, CNN meets the men and women bringing those ideas to life.

A group of lawyers have written a letter to the heads of the Department of Justice to complain about the President's attacks on the judiciary.

President Trump's promised border wall on the US-Mexico border is underway, but there may be a disconnect between the President's vision and what is happening on the ground. CNN's Ed Lavandera reports.

Marlene McCarthy's breast cancer has grown relentlessly over the past seven years, spreading painfully through her bones and making it impossible to walk without a cane.

Watch heated moments from the Senate debate on the nomination of Sen. Jeff Sessions for attorney general and Democrats boycott of Finance Committee votes on Treasury nominee Steven Mnuchin and Health and Human Services nominee Tom Price.

A storm forming in the Atlantic will blast the Northeast with up to a foot of snow on Thursday morning, creating travel nightmares across the region, CNN meteorologists say.

Illinois businessman Chris Kennedy, the son of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy and nephew of US President John F. Kennedy, announced Wednesday that he will join the state's Democratic race for governor.

The US military said Wednesday it targeted and killed a longtime al Qaeda leader in an airstrike near Idlib, Syria.

President Donald Trump slams Nordstrom on Twitter for dropping Ivanka Trump's line.

First lady Melania Trump is -- in and of herself -- a "brand," one that could elicit lucrative endorsement opportunities, according to a lawsuit refiled by her attorneys on Monday.

Jorge Perez, a billionaire real estate developer, has built structures around the world but will not build President Trump's border wall stating it is "an insult to all Hispanics" and immigrants in the US.

After being silenced by Senate Republicans, Sen. Elizabeth Warren continued urging her colleagues to read Coretta Scott King's 30-year-old letter opposing Jeff Sessions -- saying she sees King's concerns that Sessions fought against civil rights as "directly relevant" today.

Five performers were injured Wednesday after tumbling from a high-wire act during a circus practice in Sarasota, Florida, officials said.

The Senate confirmed Jeff Sessions as the next attorney general Wednesday evening by a vote of 52-47, mostly along party lines. The one Democrat who voted in support of Sessions was Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia. Sessions, a senator from Alabama, voted present.