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High praise comes from China following the death of Fidel Castro. The president of China released a statement saying, "Castro's death means China has lost an intimate and sincere friend." CNN's Matt Rivers has the details.

One person is in custody after three Starbucks coffee shops were vandalized in Albuquerque, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

A Chicago police officer who said he shot and killed a black man this week after the teenager pointed a gun at him has been relieved of his police powers, the Chicago Police Department said Saturday.

Fidel Castro's death is the end of an era. He has gone not with a bang, as he arrived, nor with a whimper, but a simple fading away. Laid low by serious illness, his iron grip on the island nation had loosened over the past decade, with full power passing to his brother Raul in 2008.

Fidel Castro Ruz, the political personality, has died. Fidel Castro, the historical persona, has been born. He passes from the present into the past, to serve as an enduring historical subject of debate and dispute, about whom dispassion will be impossible for years to come. Fidel Castro was not a man about whom one is likely to be neutral.

A look back at Castro's life.

In the town of Bíran, near the eastern tip of Cuba, people began knocking on Martin Castro's door early Saturday. The phone hasn't stopped ringing.

A dictator is dead. Another country's citizens may be ready to abandon the discredited and economically disastrous ideology of communism. Citizens can hope that free speech, a free press and human rights will become the order of the day.

Cuba is officially in mourning. But the scene in Little Havana, in Miami, is vastly different.

The US Secret Service is considering renting one floor in Trump Tower to protect President-elect Donald Trump and his family by turning it into a 24-7 command post, a law enforcement official told CNN Friday.

Police have detained 23 people on suspicion of arson in connection with wildfires that swept across central and northern Israel this week, said police spokeswoman Luba Samri.

See reactions from around the world following the death of longtime Cuban leader Fidel Castro.

Looks like some Donald Trump supporters are still holding a grudge against Mitt Romney for the way the 2012 GOP nominee criticized Trump during the campaign. The President-elect is considering Romney for secretary of state, and according to news reports, before these Trump insiders will support Romney, they want him to apologize for calling Trump such things as a "phony" and a "fraud."

Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro has died at age 90, Cuban state media reported.

The U.S. is using cold-war era bombers to spy and gather intelligence on ISIS. CNN's Fred Pleitgen reports.

Forty-nine pit caves were discovered in China. According to CCTV, there are about 130 pit caves identified in the world and more than 90 of them are located in China.

Try to imagine the excitement of the Cuban people in 1959 when the young, charismatic barbudo, the bearded one, Fidel Castro, and his band of ragtag rebels managed to pull off the impossible: getting rid of the dictator Fulgencio Batista and ushering in -- or so everyone expected -- a new era in Cuba, a Cuba free of the corruption, violence and cronyism that had pockmarked its history since before its wars of independence.

American lawmakers -- including those with Cuban ties -- reacted strongly Saturday to Fidel Castro's death.

President-elect Donald Trump reacted Saturday to the death of controversial Cuban leader Fidel Castro in a four word tweet.