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President Barack Obama's final State Dinner Tuesday was a swirl of dolce vita diplomacy, Italian designer gowns and plates of Mario Batali pasta easing a bittersweet end to one of the presidency's best perks.

Strict secrecy laws and harassment by government officials are creating an "atmosphere of fear" in Australia, a UN investigator warns.

I was lecturing a friend one day about the need to vote when he countered with a question about my civic duty: Why don't you ever stand for the national anthem?

When we meet at the Korean Cultural Center in London, the first thing I see of Park Chan-wook is the back of his head.

It's no secret this election's doing a number on us. All the negativity has us seriously stressed (just ask the American Psychological Association).

A Somali immigrant speaking Swahili while visiting a Minnesota Applebee's last year was left stunned and bleeding when another female customer hit her with a beer mug. This week that customer pleaded guilty to the attack, which police said was racially motivated.

Melania Trump inspires #BillyBushMadeMeDoIt. CNN's Jeanne Moos has the best "blame Billy" tweets.

Along the rough, rocky waters of northwestern Spain's Costa da Morte ("Coast of Death") is where you find the finest percebes. Also known as goose barnacles, the hard, leathery crustaceans that cling to coastal rocks are among the most expensive seafood in the world, selling for as much as $125 per pound.

The battle to recapture Mosul from ISIS could take two months, a Peshmerga military commander told CNN on the second day of the long-awaited offensive to liberate Iraq's second city.

Houston police are investigating surveillance video that shows a stranger try to grab a child from her mother's shopping cart.

We've been debunking this hoax for SEVEN YEARS now, and here we are doing it again.

"Donald Trump can't read this, but he's afraid of it anyway."

President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama host Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi at the White House for their final state dinner.

Ecuador's Foreign Ministry published a statement on Tuesday saying it "exercised its right" to "temporarily restrict access to some of (WikiLeaks') private communications network within its Embassy in the United Kingdom."

Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice responded Tuesday to a resurfaced report from 2006 that Donald Trump called her a "bitch" in a speech, telling CNN's KFile in an email that she "can't wait until November 9!"

The ACLU of Michigan is suing school districts that serve Flint, saying there are inadequate services for the 30,000 children there who were exposed to lead through the water supply.

Chelsea Handler is throwing another dinner party on Netflix, but at this table, the main course is female empowerment.

A former head of the CIA said Tuesday that Russian hacking of US political groups is intended to "mess with our heads" and shake confidence in the American electoral system -- rather than influence the outcome on Election Day.