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• 'My stomach is hurting from laughing': Hear panelist's reaction to DeSantis' threat to Disney

Scientists have found thriving communities of coastal creatures, including tiny crabs and anemones, living thousands of miles from their original home on plastic debris in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch -- a 620,000 square mile swirl of trash in the ocean between California and Hawaii.

Before Alexis Dowdell headed to her Sweet 16 party, she sat on her big brother's bed to tell him she was nervous for the event she had been planning for months -- only to have him make her laugh and assure her that he would make sure she had fun, she says.

China's economy is off to a solid start in 2023 following its emergence from three years of strict pandemic restrictions.

• Jailed Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich denied detention appeal in Moscow • Putin visits Russian troops at military headquarters in Kherson • Watch moment WSJ journalist appears in Russian court

Rarely have the tectonic plates of American politics collided as visibly and explosively as they did earlier this month in Tennessee.

A special grand jury in Ohio declined to indict the Akron police officers who fatally shot Jayland Walker, a 25-year-old Black man, dozens of times after a car chase and foot chase last year.

What does intimacy look like for seniors? There's no end to sex scenes and other steamy content featuring the young and unwrinkled, but past a certain age, popular culture largely draws a blank — or treats sex as a punchline.

CNN panelists react to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis floating the idea of building a competing theme park next to Disney World in Orlando.

"We don't need or want a secret police station in our great city," said Breon Peace, the US attorney for the Eastern District of New York on Monday -- expressing the likely feeling of many Americans at the news that the FBI has arrested two alleged agents for the Chinese government accused of working to harass and silence its critics in the US.

A grand jury has declined to indict a Virginia police officer who shot and killed an unarmed shoplifting suspect, according to the county prosecutor.

CNN's Chief International Security Correspondent Nick Paton Walsh talks to a Ukrainian child freed from Russian-occupied land about what he went through in the months away from his family.

A teenager was shot and wounded by a homeowner after mistakenly going to the wrong home to pick up his siblings in Kansas City, Missouri, police said Sunday.

Jamie Foxx remains hospitalized in Georgia nearly a week after his daughter revealed the actor experienced a "medical complication," a source with knowledge of the matter told CNN on Monday.

After a Sweet 16 birthday celebration was shattered by a shooting over the weekend that left four people dead and at least 28 others injured, investigators in Dadeville, Alabama, are still working to determine what caused the chaos.

Vladimir Kara-Murza, a prominent Russian human rights advocate and Kremlin critic, has been sentenced to 25 years in prison after publicly condemning Moscow's war in Ukraine. CNN's Matthew Chance reports.

Sudan's paramilitary forces besieged and shelled a hospital in central Khartoum, five eyewitnesses told CNN, as fighting between militants and the country's military claimed nearly 100 lives over the weekend. CNN's Nima Elbagir reports.