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President Donald Trump on Friday banned citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the United States for at least the next 90 days by executive order.

The one thing you need to know about executive orders and actions. CNN's Stephen Collinson explains.

The New Jersey governor won't be charged with misconduct in the so-called "Bridgegate" scandal, Bergen County prosecutors said Friday.

The borderlands of California and Mexico change dramatically as one drives toward the Pacific Ocean. The Imperial Sand Dunes give way to majestic mountain peaks and, eventually, the lush hills of San Diego.

Trump barred citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the US for at least the next 90 days by executive order.

A chain of wildfires has unleashed a catastrophe over wide swaths of central and southern Chile, killing at least 10 people, destroying thousands of homes and consuming an area about three times the size of New York City, authorities said.

Heavy mold growth was found in the linens used at two University of Pittsburgh Medical Center hospitals where five mold-infection-related deaths occurred since October 2014, according to a report.

President Donald Trump and Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto spoke on the phone Friday, a White House official told CNN.

Actor John Hurt, the gravelly voiced British actor who garnered Oscar nominations for his roles in "Midnight Express" and "The Elephant Man," has died at the age of 77, publicist Charles McDonald said Friday.

Two-time Oscar nominated actor John Hurt has passed away at 77 years old.

President Donald Trump signed two executive actions Friday at the Department of Defense, including one limiting the flow of refugees into the United States by instituting what the President has called "extreme vetting" of immigrants.

In Syracuse, New York, cameras caught the moment a pickup truck swerved and crashed into a bus.

For over two millennia, scrolls from the ancient Roman town of Herculaneum eluded analysis. Left buried under the ashes when Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD, the scrolls were preserved -- but in a charred and illegible state.

Lifting US sanctions on Russia will be up for discussion when the two country's leaders talk Saturday, a top White House adviser said Friday.

President Donald Trump is commemorating International Holocaust Remembrance Day by slamming America's door on refugees. This is a ghastly repeat of the tragic mistake America made in 1921, when President Warren Harding signed the Emergency Quota Act, severely limiting the numbers of refugees and immigrants admitted to the country.

CNN's Ed Lavandera gets a rare look at tunnels underneath the wall along the US-Mexico border.

The executive orders President Donald Trump signed in Washington this week are paving the way for a sweeping overhaul of the US immigration system. And for people around the world, Trump's plans are personal.

President Donald Trump signs executive action to keep "radical Islamic terrorists" out of the United States. CNN's Jim Sciutto has more.