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Anna Kendrick has opened up about a relationship with someone she says was "for all intents and purposes my husband."

CNN's senior data reporter Harry Enten explains the rule change that made it more difficult to win the lottery and how it's causing jackpots to keep surpassing $1 billion.

A new proposal from the Biden administration would lower federal student loan payments for some Americans -- and pause payments completely for anyone making less than $30,600 a year.

Elon Musk's Twitter has restored the accounts of two prominent election deniers who were banned from the platform following the January 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol.

The 80th Golden Globe Awards will be presented -- and televised -- on Tuesday.

A trio of Asian passports offer their holders greater global travel freedom than those of any other countries, according to a new quarterly report released by London-based global citizenship and residence advisory firm Henley & Partners.

Rep. Dusty Johnson (R-SD) tells CNN's Kaitlan Collins that House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) should be careful removing certain Democrats from committee assignments as the 118th Congress takes shape.

"Dad, my sentence is death," Mohammad Mehdi Karami informed his father in a phone call from prison last month. Then, last Saturday, the 21-year-old karate champion was executed by the Iranian regime. Karami, an Iranian Kurd, was hanged on the same day as Seyed Mohammad Hosseini, a volunteer children's coach who was just 20. Both were accused of killing a member of the Basij paramilitary force. In the phone call, the younger Karami reportedly told his father he was tortured into making a false confession. All 16 accused in that case have denied the charges.

The global economy is just one more knock away from a second recession in the same decade, something that hasn't happened in more than 80 years.

The spotty track record of videogame adaptations and glut of apocalyptic/zombie dramas receive a welcome boost from "The Last of Us," which proves there's room for more of each as long as it's this good. A road series with mini-dramas baked into the episodes, the HBO show quickly proves itself worthy of the hype and anticipation by delivering a fully realized series graced with flesh-and-blood characters.

Molson Coors is typically known for its lineup of beers and booze, but its newest drink isn't either.

Every time there is a head trauma, cardiac arrest, or other major injury among professional sports, parents take a deep breath.

California has gone from extreme drought to extreme flooding in a matter of days. On Monday, 90% of the state's population was under a flood watch as another round of storms rolled through. Yet it was just last week when several counties in the state were experiencing the exact opposite -- exceptional drought, which the US Drought Monitor considers the most severe category.

According to a prominent independent Washington think tank, which conducted war game simulations of a possible conflict, projected possible outcomes of a Chinese invasion of Taiwan in 2026. CNN's Oren Liebermann has more.

In a positive sign for inflation-weary consumers, online prices dropped in December as retailers resorted to deep discounts to lure shoppers, according to a Tuesday report from Adobe Analytics.

There has been a "substantive" change in the type of weaponry the US and its allies are providing to Ukraine to meet Kyiv's requests for firepower, two senior US officials tells CNN.

President Joe Biden's lawyers say they found classified government materials while closing out a Washington, DC-based office that Biden used as part of his relationship as an honorary professor for the University of Pennsylvania. CNN'S Paula Reid reports.

Being a teenager means being vulnerable -- physically and emotionally besieged by adolescent hormones and the confusion of no longer being a child but not yet being fully an adult. It's a time many of us wince to recall, and one I wouldn't want to undertake again.

Former Vice President Mike Pence is making a hard play for social conservatives as he prepares for a potential run for president. And as some evangelical and conservative leaders express disenchantment with Pence's old running mate, Donald Trump, this reliable bloc of Republican voters may be interested in finding a new champion in 2024.

Santa Barbara County was hit with severe rainfall turning streets into rivers, toppling trees, shuttering major roadways and prompting numerous water rescues. Emergency services responded to more than 200 incident calls. The entire town of Montecito, California, was told to evacuate.