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A special prosecutor has been appointed to look into whether police and prosecutors in a small Illinois town engaged in misconduct to win a false conviction in one of the nation's coldest murder cases.

In an interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer, Rep. Kathleen Rice calls Donald Trump's insults so juvenile that it would be an "insult to actual juveniles."

After years of investigations and hearings, the sheer scale of child sexual abuse within the Australian Catholic Church has been revealed.

America's biggest tech firms have stepped into the legal fight against President Donald Trump's travel ban.

The main target of the US Navy SEAL raid in Yemen was the leader of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, Qassim al-Rimi, according to a senior US military official. CNN's Jim Sciutto has more.

Speaking to US military members, President Trump falsely accused the media of down playing terrorist attacks, but did not specify which attacks he was referring to. CNN's Jim Acosta has more.

A piece in The New York Times explores how previous terrorist attacks considered lone wolf attacks were actually facilitated through cyberspace. CNN's Jake Tapper reports.

Elon Musk has signed on to fight President Trump's travel ban.

Donald Trump turned to his favorite outlet for outrage over the weekend when he blasted out tweets to his 23.9 million followers lambasting the federal judge who temporarily suspended the President's executive orders on immigration.

Pushing back on a New York Times article detailing disorder in the West Wing, press secretary Sean Spicer said Monday the reporters got their facts wrong -- including the eye-catching detail that Trump watches TV in his bathrobe.

In criticizing a New York Times article about President Donald Trump, Press Secretary Sean Spicer says the piece is riddled with falsehoods and that Trump doesn't even own a bathrobe.

A long list of tech firms, from the largest in the nation to startups, have joined together to support legal fight against President Donald Trump's travel ban.

Senate Democrats said they plan to hold the floor of the chamber for the next 24 hours, leading up to the vote to confirm President Donald Trump's choice to be education secretary, in hopes of drawing enough attention to the issue to derail Betsy DeVos' nomination.

Donald Trump's chief strategist, Steve Bannon, said during a 2010 webinar for Tea Party activists that liberal Democrats have a "plantation mentality" towards African Americans to keep them under government control.

A federal judge temporarily halted President Donald Trump's travel ban, and the President is firing back. CNN's Pamela Brown reports.

See photos from Super Bowl LI, which is taking place in Houston on Sunday, February 5.

CNN's Jake Tapper recaps President Donald Trump's busy weekend on Twitter.

See photos of the Super Bowl LI halftime show, which starred pop star Lady Gaga.

A Massachusetts college is backing up strong words with cold hard cash to protest President Donald Trump's travel ban.

On Saturday morning, President Donald Trump may have unleashed his most bone-chilling tweet -- at least to those who believe the United States should not become a Trump-led dictatorship. And I don't make that comment simply to be provocative or without giving it a great deal of thought. Our democracy is far more fragile than some might grasp and Trump is engaging in a concerned effort to undermine the workings of it.