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Whenever Socrates walked out onto the pitch, all eyes were on the man they called 'Doctor.'

Gary Strieker had every reason to be a pessimist. People dying of hunger, brutal killings and many other horrific events that he covered as an international reporter unfolded right before his eyes.

CNN is on the ground in Moscow asking Russians what they think about the Ukraine conflict.

Catfishing crimes have ensnared people for years.

Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-TX) says that congressional investigators are currently going through former President Trump's tax returns and they may release some details to the public.

Officials in Providence, Rhode Island, recently approved a $10 million budget plan for the city's reparations program, but some are wondering who might end up benefiting from it.

Unleash the elves, December is here. Start the holiday countdown with our roundup of 15 luxury hotels that go all out for Christmas and then read about Advent traditions around the world.

'Tis the season for gift giving -- hunting down the perfect presents for family and friends, and tracking the best deals so all the holiday cheer still fits into our snug budgets.

The South Atlantic island of St. Helena is celebrating the birthday of the world's oldest living land animal -- a Seychelles giant tortoise called Jonathan, who is turning 190.

New York City is recruiting a new "director of rodent mitigation" to rid the streets of its most notorious furry inhabitants.

One passenger was killed and four injured when a "rogue wave" hit their cruise ship during a storm earlier this week.

If you've seen the astonishing trailer for "Cocaine Bear" making the rounds on Twitter, you might have questions about the film's claim that it is "inspired by true events." But the story is indeed based on the true story of a bear who overdosed on cocaine in the 1980s.

The best day of Eric's life came just days before the worst.

Lawyers for Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio revealed in court Friday that they plan to argue during their December seditious conspiracy trial that the far-right extremist group was in touch with law enforcement about their plans to rally in Washington, DC, on January 6, 2021.

For days, Twitter owner Elon Musk had teased a massive bombshell disclosure based on internal company documents that he claimed would reveal "what really happened" inside Twitter when it decided to temporarily suppress a 2020 New York Post story about Hunter Biden and his laptop.

A superior court judge in Georgia has ordered Cobb County to extend its deadline for accepting absentee ballots in the US Senate runoff after a lawsuit claimed that numerous voters who had applied for absentee ballots had not received them.

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In a World War II-era fuel storage tank deep beneath Sydney, the smell of gasoline still hangs in the air. Pulsing lights sweep the cavernous space to reveal fragments of "The End of Imagination," an installation by Argentine artist Adrián Villar Rojas. Five twisting sculptural forms, born from a digitized future of Rojas' creation, emerge out of the darkness.

An Illinois eighth grader describes making a nearly full-court shot with just three seconds left in his basketball game against a rival team.

A Los Angeles jury will begin deliberating Friday afternoon in the sexual assault trial of Harvey Weinstein, the former movie producer who is accused of using his Hollywood influence to lure women into private meetings and assault them.