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When news of Donald Trump's executive order broke on Wednesday, I had just started a new semester of adjunct teaching at Columbia University. I was relieved to put my phone on silent, mentally shelve the news, and face a new classroom. I was back to walking with a cane -- I've had late-stage Lyme disease for years -- and I wondered which joke to lead with first: something that would disarm them about my illness, or something about how their professor might be in an internment camp before their finals. I did neither. I dreaded the end of class, when I'd have to look at my phone again -- wondering which part of my identity would clash with what fresh news update: partially-disabled, chronically ill, Iranian, American, artist, academic, journalist, woman.

New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft got ready to speak. He was on the field, holding the Lamar Hunt Trophy, after his team dominated the Pittsburgh Steelers to win the AFC Championship Game at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts.

A shooting at a mosque in the Canadian city of Quebec has left an unknown number of people dead and wounded.

Amid the chaos and confusion of President Donald Trump's new executive order on immigration and refugees, sources tell CNN that White House policy director Stephen Miller spoke with officials of the State Department, Customs and Border Patrol, Department of Homeland Security and others to tell them that the President is deeply committed to the executive order and the public is firmly behind it -- urging them not to get distracted by what he described as hysterical voices on TV.

North Korea appears to be restarting a plutonium reactor just as US Secretary of Defense James Mattis prepares to visit neighboring South Korea and Japan.

Miss France is the new Miss Universe.

The American Civil Liberties Union said it received $24.1 million in online donations over the weekend.

US law-enforcement agencies are at risk of being spied on and hacked because some of their field offices are located in foreign-owned buildings without even knowing it, according to a new government report.

Roger Federer beats Rafael Nadal in a five-set match in the Australian Open Men's Final winning his 18th grand slam.

Russian President Vladimir Putin is determined to destabilize Western democracies in an effort to shape global events to his own interests, says a former Ukrainian finance minister who has seen firsthand Russian machinations overwhelm her country.

The cast of "Stranger Things" won big at Sunday night's SAG Awards, and star David Harbour used his moment in the spotlight to deliver a speech that got some of his fellow actors on their feet.

The 23rd annual Screen Actors Guild Awards were held Sunday.

The Screen Actors Guild Awards made clear that politics are going to be an integral part of award shows, as one performer after another voiced antagonism toward Trump administration policies.

President Donald Trump issued an executive order banning travel from seven Muslim majority countries. The move has been met with street protests across America and legal challenges.

From Boston to Baghdad, families are being ripped apart. Some people can't go home to the US, others can't return to their native countries to visit parents and children, and still others are stranded in airports and cities halfway across the world.

CNN opened its voicemail line to hear from people impacted by President Donald Trump's executive order on extreme vetting of immigrants.

From the moment the 23rd Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards ceremony began Sunday, the stars wasted no time diving right into politics.

Chinese tourists were drifting at sea and awaiting rescue after their vessel sunk off the coast of Sabah in Malaysia, Chinese state news agency Xinhua reported Sunday, citing a Chinese consulate in Malaysia.

The spouse of an immigrant who had a J2 visa was detained overnight at Washington's Dulles International Airport following President Trump's executive order banning immigration from seven Muslim-majority countries.