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Benedict XVI, the Pope Emeritus, has died in Vatican City at the age of 95 following a period of ill health.

Boulder, Colorado, has closed its main public library due to methamphetamine contamination in the facility's bathrooms and some seating areas, city officials say.

A traveler at New York City's John F. Kennedy International airport got into a sticky situation -- literally.

Anita Pointer, one of the founding members of the R&B group The Pointer Sisters, has died at age 74, according to her publicist Roger Neal.

Kevin Hart tells Anderson Cooper what he and David Beckham were doing in Anderson's house when Anderson wasn't home during CNN's "New Year's Eve Live"

The Georgia Bulldogs have advanced to the College Football Playoff Championship after defeating the Ohio State Buckeyes Saturday.

US Highway 101, one of California's most famous routes, closed in both directions in south San Francisco Saturday as heavy precipitation and snow melt are flooding roads, especially in the northern half of the state.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is calling for an "exponential increase" in his country's nuclear weapons arsenal as threats from South Korea and the Untied States increase, Pyongyang's state media reported Sunday.

Andy Cohen and Anderson Cooper talk to Nick Cannon, father of 12 kids, about his plan for having more children during CNN's "New Year's Eve Live."

A worker at the Montgomery Regional Airport in Alabama died Saturday in an incident on the ramp, the Federal Aviation Administration said Saturday.

Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen share updates on how their families have grown over the past year.

William Carlos Williams is perhaps best known for the red wheelbarrow on which so much depends, but "Spring and All" -- the 1923 book which includes that poem -- is a manifesto on how language, through its own slow renewal, can recreate the world. "It is the imagination on which reality rides," Williams wrote. "To whom then am I addressed? To the imagination."

The man arrested in connection with the November killings of four University of Idaho students who were found stabbed to death attended a nearby university in Washington state and traveled across the country in December to spend the holidays with his parents.

Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Blaine Gabbert used jet skis to help rescue the occupants of a helicopter after it crash landed in the water on Thursday, he said in a press conference on Friday.

Barbara Walters' interviewing skills were a signature of her 60-year career in journalism. These were some her best questions.

Paris Hilton is back to see "what love can do" for the second time with a new version of her 2006 song "Stars Are Blind."

A woman has filed a lawsuit against Aerosmith lead singer Steven Tyler, alleging sexual assault, coercion of an abortion and involuntary infamy in the 1970s when she was a minor and he was in his mid-20s.

Authorities carefully tracked the man charged in the killings of four Idaho college students as he drove across the country around Christmas and continued surveilling him for several days before finally arresting him Friday, sources tell CNN.

Queen guitarist Brian May has received a knighthood in honor of his services to music and charity.