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• China claims balloon over the US is a weather research 'civilian airship' that blew off course • What the Chinese balloon may be spying on • Families of US detainees in China urge Blinken to make them 'number one' priority on his trip

World-famous fashion designer Paco Rabanne has died at the age of 88.

Police are looking for a man they say entered a San Francisco synagogue and fired several apparently blank rounds before running away.

An NFL fan has started an online petition to allow the mother of Travis and Jason Kelce, Donna, to perform the coin toss ahead of Super Bowl LVII.

The footage of Tyre Nichols' deadly police arrest is hard to watch, but for those who have survived brutal police encounters, it can be unbearable.

• Unemployment rate falls to 3.4% from 3.5%, hitting a level not seen since before Neil Armstrong stepped on the moon • Teachers are leaving. Lowering professional qualifications doesn't fix shortage, educators say

A 24-year-old man has been arrested in Dallas and charged in connection with the suspected theft of a pair of emperor tamarin monkeys that were recovered unharmed this week in an abandoned home a day after they vanished from the Dallas Zoo, police said.

Darren Foster, the director of "American Pain," has been reporting on Florida pain clinics for a decade. His documentary focuses on twins who ran the largest opioid pill mill in the US. It premieres Sunday, February 5, at 9 p.m. ET.

The US economy added an astonishing 517,000 jobs in January, showing that the labor market isn't ready to cool down just yet, according to new data released Friday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Prosecutors in the Alex Murdaugh trial turned the spotlight onto his finances and allegations that he stole millions of dollars from his law firm. The court also heard new testimony about a Snapchat his son Paul recorded right before he was murdered. Randi Kaye has more from Walterboro, South Carolina.

House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Mike McCaul has invited former Afghanistan Ambassador to the US Roya Rahmani to be his guest for President Joe Biden's State of the Union address next week, CNN has learned exclusively.

No need to be all shook up about Austin Butler's continuing to sound like Elvis Presley.

The coastline of Sunny Isles Beach, Florida, will be getting a new addition in 2026: the sparkling exterior of Bentley Motors' first residential building, rising above a skyline full of luxury condos and hotels.

"80 for Brady" suits up with good personnel and a weak game plan, with a movie that exists as much for the fun of seeing its central quartet hit the talk-show circuit as the film itself. Give Paramount credit for the audacity to build a project around 335 years worth of screen stardom, but even its golden gals can only do so much with the playbook given them.

WCAX reporter Melissa Cooney reports from Burlington, Vermont, saying the record-breaking temperatures in the state are so extreme that her jeans froze "rock solid' in nearly fifteen minutes.

Kai Li is an American who has been imprisoned in China since 2016 and is serving a ten-year prison sentence on espionage charges. The US State Department has designated him as wrongfully detained. With Secretary of State Antony Blinken expected to visit China, Li's son Harrison hopes that securing his father's freedom will be a top priority. CNN's Kylie Atwood reports.

It was only two weeks ago that Spike, a 23-year-old chihuahua mix from Ohio, was named the oldest living dog. Now, he has been utterly dethroned.

More than two decades ago, Jennifer Lopez changed the internet forever when she wore a dress so striking it inspired engineers to build Google Image Search.