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When researchers found a hummingbird with shiny gold feathers on its throat in Peru's Cordillera Azul National Park, they thought it was a newly discovered species.

From his early days on "Saturday Night Live" to his first standup special "Bring the Pain" and next a history-making live event on Netflix, Chris Rock's comedy has been shaping popular culture for more than three decades.

Calls to boycott Hershey are spreading on Twitter in response to the chocolate company's International Women's Day Canadian campaign, which includes a trans woman.

A person in Charlotte County, Florida, has died after being infected with the rare brain-eating amoeba Naegleria fowleri.

CNN's Jake Tapper tells the story of Frank Murphy, a navigator for the "Bloody Hundredth" during WWII. Murphy's family has now published his memoir, "Luck of the Draw" ahead of his story being told in Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg's 'Masters of the Air' for Apple TV+.

• Russia planned Kherson torture centers, international lawyers say • Video: Russian troops dying in large groups, pleading to Putin for help • Fact check: Zelensky didn't say American sons and daughters have to fight in Ukraine

The world's most northerly forests could be a "time bomb" of planet-warming pollution as expanding wildfires have released record high levels of planet-heating pollution into the atmosphere, according to a new study.

Computers powered by human brain cells may sound like science fiction, but a team of researchers in the United States believes such machines, part of a new field called "organoid intelligence," could shape the future — and now they have a plan to get there.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who once expressed support for privatizing Social Security, said Thursday on Fox News that "we're not going to mess with Social Security as Republicans."

Wayne Shorter, a Grammy-winning saxophonist and composer who helped shaped the sound of contemporary jazz, has died, according to his publicist.

• Lea Michele's 'Funny Girl' run to end as Broadway musical plans to close later this year • Jenna Ortega wishes her generation was better represented in stories: 'We can be smart' • Travis Scott and his lawyer expected to meet with NYPD next week after assault accusation

Paris Saint-Germain president Nasser Al-Khelaifi has been implicated in a "kidnapping and torture" investigation in France, the Paris prosecutor's office confirmed to CNN on Wednesday.

My relationship with TikTok is analogous to my relationship with church. I tend only to visit when invited by a third party, and while I'm not convinced its effects are ubiquitously positive, I'm glad it offers at least some participants comfort during their darker moments.

It may seem strange to see Greta Thunberg protesting against wind turbines, but this week the Swedish climate activist has joined Indigenous and environmental groups in Norway to do just that.

• Live updates: Alex Murdaugh's defense begins to deliver closing arguments in his murder trial • Legal experts say kennel video is key to Murdaugh trial • Video: Examining one of the only pieces of physical evidence in Murdaugh trial

Silvergate Capital, a dominant lender to cryptocurrency firms, is spiraling.