BREAKING NEWS [1:09 p.m. ET Thursday]:
Southwest Airlines says it's poised to resume normal schedules on Friday after a tumultuous eight-day meltdown that left hundreds of thousands of passengers delayed or stranded and prompted its executives to make groveling apologies.
Former Trump White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham details her final days with Melania Trump, including the former first lady's views about the 2020 election and her behavior during the January 6 insurrection of the US Capitol.
Democrat Kris Mayes won the Arizona attorney general race, an automatic recount confirmed. The Arizona Superior Court in Maricopa County announced the results of the recount Thursday.
According to newly released transcripts from the January 6 committee, Trump lawyer Christina Bobb testified that Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said he would support former President Donald Trump's effort to overturn the 2020 election if they could provide him evidence.
President Joe Biden on Thursday signed a $1.7 trillion federal spending bill that includes a number of administration priorities and officially avoids a government shutdown, ending what he called a "year of historic progress."
The first public sales of regulated cannabis in New York began at a dispensary in Manhattan's East Village on Thursday at 4:20 p.m., hours after the first sale was made to a city official, New York Governor Kathy Hochul announced.
The US Department of Transportation formally warned Southwest Airlines on Thursday that it will face consequences if it fails to do right by stranded and inconvenienced passengers.
The tree of life grew in 2022 as California Academy of Sciences researchers and their international collaborators discovered 146 new animal, plant and fungi species.
The news that the Iranian Oscar-winning actor Taraneh Alidoosti was arrested at her home in Tehran on December 17 and taken to the infamous Evin prison rushed through the media like a brushfire.
As Rep.-elect George Santos continues to face scrutiny for false claims the New York Republican has made about his biography, another story is being questioned: that his mother was at the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, and that the incident played a role in her death.
Explosions rattled villages and cities across Ukraine, damaging civilian infrastructure and killing at least three people in what Kyiv has called one of Russia's biggest missile barrages since the war began. CNN's Ben Wedeman reports from Kyiv.
A major winter storm blasted much of the central and eastern United States this past week, bringing record-breaking temperature drops and harsh snowy conditions that resulted in flight cancellations, highway closures and several state emergency declarations.
The number of people under age 20 with type 2 diabetes in the US may increase nearly 675% by 2060 if trends continue, researchers say, with an increase of up to 65% in young people with type 1 diabetes.
These destinations around the world have a well-deserved reputation for traditionally throwing a great New Year's Eve fireworks show and shindig, and they're bouncing back from the subdued celebrations of the past two years during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Patrick Keane, who traveled to Chicago after two canceled flights, had an enthusiastic reunion with his luggage that he says had been missing for a week.
