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Fox Corporation CEO Lachlan Murdoch on Thursday dismissed the revelations from Dominion Voting Systems' $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News as "noise," throwing his support behind the right-wing talk channel in his first comments since the case enveloped the company in major scandal.

A Republican congressman on Thursday accused the FBI of searching an intelligence database for his name multiple times in what he called an "egregious" violation of his privacy.

In an attempt to weaken US diplomatic and military influence, Russian President Vladimir Putin has waged a propaganda war to convince other countries that the United States is engaging in a "purposeful, conscious US strategy to destabilize and make chaotic the situation in [Taiwan] and the world."

After three consecutive years of an unusually stubborn pattern, La Niña has officially ended and El Niño is on the way, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Thursday.

A lawyer representing one of five Proud Boys members on trial for seditious conspiracy asked a federal judge to throw out the case Thursday, saying that federal prosecutors hid "plainly exculpatory" US Capitol security footage played on Fox News host Tucker Carlson's show.

A powerful Senate panel is holding a hearing Thursday on the East Palestine, Ohio, train derailment as lawmakers on both sides of the aisle call for answers and action in the wake of the disaster.

Senate Minority Leader McConnell is being treated for a concussion and is staying at a hospital for observation after a fall at a hotel in Washington, DC, on Wednesday evening.

For nearly two decades, democracies around the world have been losing ground. Countless autocrats have managed to pulverize the foundations of democracy in their countries by passing arcane laws that quietly erode civil liberties, press freedoms or the separation of powers, to name a few examples.

New updates to US Food and Drug Administration mammography regulations require mammography facilities to notify patients about the density of their breasts.

Iran's longest-held American prisoner has made an emotional plea to US President Joe Biden to put the "liberty of innocent Americans above politics" and ramp up efforts to secure his release, in an unprecedented interview with CNN from inside Iran's notorious Evin prison.

The Senate voted Thursday to confirm Daniel Werfel, the former acting commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service, to lead the IRS.

• Scientists find a way to suck up carbon pollution and store it in the oceans

Russia has restricted exports of natural gas to Europe and announced it will temporarily slash oil output this month in response to Western sanctions. Next, it could weaponize exports of important metals such as aluminum and palladium, researchers at Citigroup have warned.

Reddit investors have been the butt of many jokes over the last few years, but could these much-maligned meme traders have the last laugh?

An adorable toddler lights up the internet sniffing candles to review them. CNN's Jeanne Moos is on the scent.

Mortgage rates edged further toward 7%, rising for the fifth consecutive week, as the Federal Reserve suggests rate increases will continue amid stubborn inflation.

For expectant parents Shakina Rajendram and Kevin Nadarajah, the doctor's words were both definitive and devastating: Their twins were not "viable."

• Biden's budget draws battle lines for debt ceiling fight • EXCLUSIVE: Biden administration warns states to minimize coverage loss as they restart Medicaid eligibility reviews • Analysis: Republicans eye transformational cuts as Biden seeds a tax hike. Nobody will get exactly what they want

Cara Delevingne has revealed that she's four months sober, saying "sometimes you need a reality check."