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For the past 22 years, the Port of Los Angeles has been the busiest container port in North America, moving around 10 million cargo containers filled with goods for Americans and bringing in roughly half a billion dollars in revenue each year to the state of California. But for the past three months, the Port of New York and New Jersey has been No. 1.

CNN's Sam Kelly talks to Nightcap's John Sarlin about the lawsuit filed against Apple by two women alleging their exes used AirTags to stalk them. For more, watch the full Nightcap episode here.

Another key inflation measure shows price pressures remained stubbornly high in November, despite the Federal Reserve's months long efforts to fight inflation through higher interest rates.

Backstreet Boys' member Nick Carter is being sued by a 39-year-old woman with autism and cerebral palsy who says the singer raped her as a teenager on the group's tour bus in 2001.

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Diehard Wimbledon fans know how hard it can be to get into the grounds of the famed tennis tournament, with spectators often camping overnight to get in a pole position to join a seemingly endless queue just for a chance to watch the championships.

When Joshua Pettit posted a video of his 85-year-old mother with Alzheimer's on social media, he had no idea how the internet was going to react. It turns out, they couldn't get enough.

The love showered on Brendan Fraser out of film festivals inflates expectations for "The Whale" wildly out of proportion, in a movie based on a play that occurs almost entirely within a lone apartment. Weighted down not by its morbidly obese protagonist but rather its stick-thin supporting players, Fraser deserves praise for his buried-under-makeup performance, but that's not enough to keep the movie afloat.

Any discussion of "Emancipation" will inevitably be clouded by the Will Smith of it all, and Apple's decision to release the movie into the teeth of awards season. The focus will thus skew toward Smith and lingering fallout from "the slap" during last year's Oscars, and away from an earnest, handsome film that's generally solid but unspectacular enough to render that conversation largely moot.

The mere title "Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio" announces that this stop-motion animated movie reflects the keen eye and visual style of the directing auteur, with a healthy dose of revisionism and reimagining baked into that. Yet despite its beauty, several of those narrative touches don't fully work, leaving behind a movie that's aesthetically lovely but narratively uneven.

President Joe Biden's student loan forgiveness program remains blocked by federal courts for now. But for some borrowers, the recently extended federal pandemic pause on payments delivers an even bigger benefit.

Mauna Loa is the world's largest active volcano. It stretches 10.5 miles from base to summit and takes up half the entire surface area of Hawaii's Big Island, the US Geological Survey says. CNN's David Culver reports.

The FedEx driver accused of kidnapping and killing 7-year-old Athena Strand delivered her Christmas present --Barbie dolls -- before the girl's disappearance, her mother said Thursday.

The Justice Department is still demanding the Trump team designate a custodian of records to attest that all documents marked classified have been returned to the government, a source familiar with the matter tells CNN.

President Vladimir Putin made rare public comments specifically addressing the Russian military's attacks on Ukraine's energy infrastructure Thursday, while clutching a glass of champagne at a Kremlin reception.

Russian missile strikes have targeted infrastructure in Ukraine, leaving many without power as winter approaches. CNN spoke with one Kyiv resident who filmed her daily life, showing how people in the city have adapted.