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A 30-year-old councilwoman in the borough of Sayreville, New Jersey, was found shot to death in her car on Wednesday, according to authorities.

China will fully reopen borders with its special administrative regions of Hong Kong and Macao next week, in what is expected to be a major boost for the economies of the two cities.

"Celebrity Jeopardy" has a new star winner.

A former senior Russian army officer says he saw his comrades torturing prisoners of war in Ukraine, in a rare eyewitness account from within Moscow's ranks to address widespread allegations of Russian war crimes.

CNN correspondent Frederik Pleitgen and his team were traveling on Thursday to the Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk to report on the search and rescue efforts underway after a residential building was leveled overnight by a Russian missile. It was "supposed to be a fairly easy shoot," Pleitgen said, given that the crew was not heading to the frontlines of the war.

A fresh barrage of missiles ripped through the city of Kramatorsk in eastern Ukraine Thursday, sending flames and thick plumes into the air as screaming civilians scrambled to find shelter.

A federal law that prohibits people subject to domestic violence restraining orders from possessing firearms is unconstitutional, a conservative-leaning appeals court ruled Thursday.

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CNN's Frederick Pleitgen reports from Kramatorsk, Ukraine, where civilians are facing missile strikes from Russia.

When Antony Blinken makes an expected trip to Beijing in the coming days for what would be the first visit to China by a US secretary of state since 2018, he will be cutting a stark contrast to the scene in the Chinese capital one year earlier.

As this year's Lunar New Year celebrations draw to a close, it's time to get ready for the grand finale, a.k.a. the Lantern Festival.

Global Pharma Healthcare is issuing a recall of its Artificial Tears Lubricant Eye Drops that were distributed by EzriCare and Delsam Pharma due to possible contamination, the US Food and Drug Administration said Thursday.

A Brazilian senator says former President Jair Bolsonaro attended a meeting in December to overturn Brazil's 2022 presidential election results, which granted current leader Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva the presidency.

An Oregon woman faces charges after allegedly helping a kidnapping suspect destroy and hide evidence last week while he was evading police, according to an affidavit obtained by CNN.

An attorney representing the family of Hae Min Lee, the teen whose 1999 killing was investigated on the "Serial" podcast, asked an appellate court on Thursday to redo a hearing that vacated the murder conviction of Adnan Syed -- and to reinstate Syed's conviction in the meantime.

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CNN's Ivan Watson offers a rare look inside Myanmar two years after a military coup ousted democratically elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi.

Additional footage relating to the deadly Memphis police beating of a 29-year-old Black man -- up to 20 hours of it -- has yet to be released, a prosecutor said Wednesday as his office contemplates whether to file more charges in the case.