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Brandy Vela's bedroom is covered in post-it notes. "You will always own a piece of my heart," says one. "You will never be forgotten," says another.

Carrier is getting a modest $7 million in financial incentives over the next 10 years from the state of Indiana to keep 1,000 jobs at an Indianapolis plant, sources familiar with the deal tells CNN.

It's been two months since St. Louis Police Officer Blake Snyder was gunned down. And 2-year-old Malachi hasn't stopped asking for his daddy.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday he had recently spoken to President-elect Donald Trump and that their "opinions coincided" that the relationship between the two nations had to be "straightened out."

At least seven people are dead following massive wildfires in eastern Tennessee. The flames burned thousands of acres in the popular resort areas of Gatlinburg and Pigeon Forge and damaged or destroyed more than 700 buildings.

You could easily have mistaken it for a celebration: a packed stadium, effervescent green flares fizzing among the fans. The rhythmic drumbeat, the clapping, the chanting.

You've got to love cops with a sense of humor.

The daytime talk show host appeared Wednesday night on Bravo's "Watch What Happens Live" and said she was sad that Anderson Cooper won't be her new co-host because he's keeping his day job at CNN.

The 2017 Sundance Film Festival will feature race, rights and environmental issues in January.

The pictures coming out of the Gatlinburg, Tennessee, wildfires are just devastating. Acres of woodland blackened. Row upon row of homes and businesses reduced to ashes.

On mini-adventures at home or abroad, there's one traveling companion few of us can bear to be apart from, and that's our phone.

They christened their project "Breaking Good."

Ukraine carried out missile launches Thursday near Crimea -- territory that Russia annexed more than two years ago -- as part of military exercises, Ukrainian state news agency Ukrinform reported.

CNN's Saima Mohsin reports on the impact that sanctions have on North Korea's nuclear ambitions.

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich mocked Mitt Romney on Wednesday for "sucking up" to President-elect Donald Trump as he contends for the position of secretary of state in the new administration.

A police officer in Tacoma, Washington, has died and his shooter is on the lam, authorities said Thursday morning.

Israel's new ambassador to Turkey -- the first since 2010 -- arrived in Ankara Thursday, marking the full restoration of ties between the two countries after six years of animosity.

It wasn't exactly a fairy tale when the prince met the pop princess.

We've seen the photos of the devastation, the houses turned to smoky shells, the neighborhoods emptied. We've read the stories of the displaced and the dispossessed.