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Surveillance video caught a parent punch a 7-year-old student in the stomach at KIPP DC Spring Academy.

Christian bakers who refused to make a cake that supported same-sex marriage lost their appeal of the ruling that found they discriminated against the man who ordered the cake.

At one of Nevada's infamous legal brothels, a 20-year-old woman recently signed up for work -- but not to have sex.

We're living in the age of the selfie. But is that a good thing?

Five French nationals were killed when a plane fell from the sky and crashed.

Photos from the ongoing saga of "The Jungle" in Calais, a controversial makeshift migrant camp in Northern France and home to at least 7,000 people in 2016.

A look back at notable people who died in 2016.

In what can best be described as a bundle of cuteness, Nicole McDonald held her son Jadon alone for the first time. The mother described it as "one of the most profound moments of my life."

A camp in the small French town of Calais has long been used as a gateway for migrants attempting reach the United Kingdom.

Good Monday morning from CNN where we have a new boss. Here's what you need to know today to Get Up to Speed and Out the Door.

For at least the first six months of their lives, infants should be sleeping in the same room as their parents, but not the same bed, according to a new report from the American Academy of Pediatrics.

Afghanistan has seen a dramatic surge in the production of opium this year, according to a new United Nations report.

Demonstrations against construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline ramped up over the weekend, resulting in dozens of arrests and a highway closure, authorities in North Dakota said.

A man has been killed, and three people injured, in a gruesome explosion in a Japanese park on Sunday afternoon.

Inmates at the Neuse Correctional Institution in Goldsboro, North Carolina set fires Sunday in a disturbance which led to the injury of one prison staff member and an inmate.

Iraqi forces have taken complete control of the Christian town of Hamdaniya, a commander said Sunday, in an ongoing operation to free the country's second city of Mosul from more than two years of brutal ISIS rule.

Tensions are high inside "The Jungle," a sprawling makeshift refugee camp in the French port town of Calais, where authorities were to begin evicting migrants Monday.

Ephemeral and poetic, shooting stars are among the world's most beautiful natural wonders.

A former British banker has pleaded not guilty to the murders of two Indonesian women in Hong Kong.