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It took Samantha Lesmeister's family four months to find a medical professional who could see that she was struggling with something more than her Down syndrome.

These days, Jeddah looks like many other modern cities: busy shopping malls packed with international luxury brands, a thriving café and coffee shop culture and a walkable oceanfront district where families socialize on the weekends.

For more than three days, students at the University of Khartoum have been trapped inside campus buildings as artillery and gunfire rain down around them in Sudan's capital.

President Joe Biden will sign an executive order in the Rose Garden Tuesday aimed at bolstering the "care economy," the White House said, issuing more than 50 directives across nearly every Cabinet-level agency in an effort to expand access to long-term care and child care.

Atiq Ahmed, a former lawmaker in India's parliament, convicted of kidnapping, was shot dead along with his brother while police were escorting them for a medical check-up in a slaying caught on live television on Saturday. CNN's Vedika Sud reports.

CEO Tim Cook personally welcomed customers to the new Apple store in Mumbai as the tech company opens its first retail stores in India. CNN's Vedika Sud reports.

The FBI has arrested two alleged Chinese agents and federal prosecutors have charged dozens of others with working to silence and harass dissidents within the United States -- with some even operating an "undeclared police station" in New York City.

• '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.