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Human remains found in a remote California location are those of a mother reported missing Thursday after a "significant amount of blood" was seen in her home, authorities say.

When President Joe Biden took office in January 2021, there were expectations on both sides of the Pacific that he would back away from the trade war his predecessor started with China nearly three years earlier.

Chinese authorities are making their biggest effort yet to end a crisis in the country's vast real estate sector that has weighed heavily on the economy over the past year.

Republican Kari Lake has closed the gap on Democrat Katie Hobbs in the Arizona gubernatorial race, but her path to victory continues to narrow. CNN's Kyung Lah reports.

When Russian forces invaded their country in late February, Vladimir Bespalov and Maria Bespalaya feared their long-held dream of starting a family through adoption was over.

In Democratic-leaning and swing states, voters last week delivered an unmistakable cry of resistance to the restrictive Republican social agenda symbolized by the drive to ban abortion.

Conventional economic logic hinges on a core assumption: Bigger economies are better, and finding ways to maintain or boost growth is paramount to improving society.

Billionaire Elon Musk said on Monday he was working "at the absolute most amount ... from morning til night, seven days a week" when asked about his recent acquisition of Twitter and his leadership of automaker Tesla.

Former First Lady Michelle Obama said she thinks President Joe Biden is "doing a great job," but stopped short of a full-throated endorsement for another White House run in a recent interview.

Former President Donald Trump repeatedly told his onetime White House chief of staff, John Kelly, that he wanted the Internal Revenue Service to investigate his political foes, Kelly told The New York Times.

An explosion that killed at least six people and injured at least 81 others in Istanbul on Sunday has been deemed a terrorist attack, Turkish Vice President Fuat Oktay said, according to state news agency Anadolu.

Manchester United's Cristiano Ronaldo says the club have betrayed him and he is being forced out, while he has no respect for manager Erik ten Hag.

Pussy Riot's Nadya Tolokonnikova spent nearly two years in a Russian penal colony. She describes what US basketball star Brittney Griner, who has been sentenced to nine years for drug possession, should expect, and shares the harsh conditions of colony life.

Mehran Karimi Nasseri, the man who had lived inside the Paris-Charles de Gaulle airport for years and inspired Steven Spielberg's 2004 film "The Terminal", died Saturday at the same airport.

When Joe Biden and Xi Jinping first got to know each other more than 10 years ago, the US and China had been moving closer for three decades despite their differences.