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This year is going to be tougher on the global economy than the one we have left behind, the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) chief Kristalina Georgieva has warned.

After a tumultuous end to a momentous and challenging year, China heads into 2023 with a great deal of uncertainty -- and potentially a glimpse of light at the end of the pandemic tunnel.

Northern California officials are back in clean-up mode after the second earthquake in two weeks struck the region Sunday morning, cracking walls and roads.

Russia's war in Ukraine has proven almost every assumption wrong, with Europe now wondering what left is safe to assume.

The House January 6 committee on Sunday released another wave of witness interview transcripts.

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Republicans' take over of the House this week will usher in a two-year political era that threatens to bring governing showdowns and shutdowns as a GOP speaker and Democratic president try to wield power from opposite ends of Pennsylvania Avenue.

House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy is hoping all's well that ends well when it comes to becoming speaker of the chamber. The current minority leader and former majority leader may have thought he'd have the speakership locked up by now, but, ahead of the new Congress that begins on Tuesday, he doesn't.

The 19-year-old being held by New York City police as the suspect in a machete attack against three police officers New Year's Eve carried a handwritten diary, which expressed his desire to join the Taliban in Afghanistan and die as a martyr, according to multiple law enforcement sources.

Many of us will close out 2022 with celebrations that stretch well into the wee hours of New Year's Day.

GOP Rep.-elect George Santos has been making headlines since December 19 — when The New York Times published its jaw-dropping article documenting his litany of false claims about his work experience, education and just about everything in between. (Santos later described these falsehoods as "resume embellishment" but admitted to misrepresenting his employment and educational background.)

Northern California was inundated with widespread flooding and power outages as a powerful atmospheric river barreled into the region, forcing water rescues, several highway closures, evacuation warnings and shelter-in-place orders.

The Points Guy managing editor Clint Henderson says that now is the best time to book your dream vacation because he expects prices for flights to international destinations to go up dramatically due to a spike in demand as more countries ease Covid restrictions.

Thousands of Californians are grappling with flooding and power outages after high winds and record-setting rainfall battered the state. CNN National Correspondent Camila Bernal has more.

CNN's Clare Sebastian reports that Russian President Vladimir Putin's 2023 New Year's address was very different from previous years, while retired Air Force Col. Cedric Leighton says Putin is continuing to push a false narrative about the war in Ukraine.

Retired Air Force Col. Cedric Leighton predicts that Russian President Vladimir Putin is going to redouble attacks on Ukraine civilian infrastructure with the hope of reaching a stalemate in the war.

It's the start of another year, and we are still working our way through a once-in-a-generation, life-changing pandemic almost three years after it began. We've all been affected by Covid-19's scourge of sickness, hospitalization, death, loneliness, isolation, work dislocation and family disruption. Perhaps, like me, you even got sick with the coronavirus and are living with its long-term effects.

An earthquake struck Northern California Sunday morning for the second time in less than a two-week span, according to the US Geological Survey.

Luiz Inácio "Lula" da Silva was sworn in as Brazil's new president on Sunday, marking the beginning of his third term in office.

Two people died and four others were injured in a shooting in Ocala, Florida, early Sunday, authorities said.