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Lady Gaga took the stage to perform an emotional and raw rendition of her Oscar-nominated song "Hold My Hand" during the Academy Awards on Sunday night.

David Carrick, a serial sex offender, served in one of Britain's most elite armed police units for years. He is now behind bars, but his ability to evade justice has only fueled a growing distrust and anger toward police in the United Kingdom. CNN has investigated how failures may have prevented Carrick from being stopped sooner.

Everything, everywhere — and almost every major Academy Award.

The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), which courted Chinese start-ups, has caused widespread concern in China, where a string of founders and companies rushed to appease investors by saying their exposure was insignificant or nonexistent.

The 95th Academy Awards delivered a lesson in understated glamour on Sunday, with restrained colors and elegant silhouettes dominating the evening's fashion.

The US Coast Guard in San Diego has ended its search for missing migrants after two smuggling boats capsized off California's coast over the weekend, leaving eight people dead in what one official called "one of the worst maritime smuggling tragedies" the city has seen.

Rihanna has already this year given us a Super Bowl halftime show, a surprise pregnancy, and, now, a performance at the Academy Awards.

Each year, thousands of babies die suddenly and unexpectedly, and more than 3,300 young lives were lost in 2020. Rates remained stubbornly high in the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic, even as overall infant mortality dropped to a record low.

"Wednesday" star Jenna Ortega hosted "Saturday Night Live" for the first time and did a remake of a scene from "The Parent Trap" with co-star Fred Armisen.

A large group of people in Mexico approached a US border entry point in El Paso, Texas, Sunday in an attempt at mass entry into the country, causing disruptions along the border and authorities to erect barricades, US Customs and Border Protection said.

North Korea launched two missiles from a submarine in waters off its east coast over the weekend, according to state media, and vowed to take "the toughest counteraction" against the largest joint military drills by the United States and South Korea in years that kick off Monday.

Women in Berlin can now swim topless in the city's public pools if they choose to -- just as men can.

President Joe Biden on Monday is expected to announce sweeping new protections for federal lands and waters in Alaska, according to an administration official, as the administration is poised to soon approve a major oil drilling project in the state.

What if potentially saving the world came down to sacrificing an innocent teenager? That was the brutal choice presented by the season finale of "The Last of Us," and the destination, with the benefit of hindsight, to which every step of this road had been leading.

Disney enthusiasts rejoice -- a full look at the live-action re-imagining of "The Little Mermaid" is here.

Alabama, Houston, Kansas and Purdue were named as the No. 1 seeds in the men's NCAA tournament on Sunday.

Actress and founder of The Honest Company Jessica Alba sits down with CNN's Chris Wallace to discuss the ways she protected herself during her many years in Hollywood.

Ke Huy Quan was overcome with emotion on Sunday night when he won the Academy Award for best supporting actor for his performance in "Everything Everywhere All at Once."

American regulators are working through the weekend on an extraordinary plan to make Silicon Valley Bank customers whole after the financial institutions' stunning and rapid collapse late last week, according to Reuters.

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen instructed the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation to guarantee Silicon Valley Bank customers will have access to all of their money starting Monday. CNN's Arlette Saenz reports.