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Loni James boarded a flight from Washington state to London last year with a duffel bag, a day pack and an unconventional itinerary.

French government minister Marlene Schiappa has come under fire from members of her own party after appearing on the front cover of Playboy magazine.

Americans have grown used to corporate executives treading the well-worn paths of the Northeast corridor to convene alongside elected officials in Washington, DC, and discuss geopolitics, policy and all that's in-between.

Former President Donald Trump spent the weekend before his history-making arraignment playing golf, posting on social media, meeting with advisers, and calling and texting allies to tout the political positives of his recent indictment.

The body of Stephen Smith, who was found dead in the middle of a South Carolina road in 2015, was exhumed over the weekend for an independent autopsy, according to attorneys for the family.

Video shows an incident at a store in the Iranian city of Shandiz where a man approached two unveiled women before proceeding to grab a tub of yogurt from the store and throw it, hitting both women in the head. The video then appears to show a male staff member removing the suspect from the store. CNN is not able to verify what was said immediately before the confrontation.

Some Supreme Court justices thought Donald Trump was setting them up. Two days after the official swearing-in of Justice Brett Kavanaugh in October 2018, the president arranged a televised ceremony at the White House and invited all the justices.

Bruce Willis' wife, Emma Heming Willis, has celebrated their elder daughter's birthday with a trip down memory lane.

Originally a term used by trophy hunters in Africa, the "Big Five" described the animals most challenging to shoot and kill: the lion, elephant, leopard, rhino, and buffalo. Nowadays, it is more loosely used to refer to some of Africa's largest and most iconic animals.

The CMT (Country Music Television) Music Awards are underway at the Moody Center in Austin, Texas.

• Born in Ukraine, killed blogger was an outspoken proponent of its destruction • Opinion: Russia's nuclear blackmail is a spectacular success for Putin • Video: See moment of deadly explosion

The LSU Tigers defeated the Iowa Hawkeyes 102-85 Sunday to win the program's first NCAA women's basketball national championship in Dallas, Texas.

Gwyneth Paltrow paused to speak to the man who had sued her after winning her ski crash trial, igniting a stream of memes in her honor.

China has launched a cybersecurity probe into Micron Technology, one of America's largest memory chip makers, in apparent retaliation after US allies in Asia and Europe announced new restrictions on the sale of key technology to Beijing.

In Japan's ramen restaurants, there's an unspoken rule: eat quickly and leave.

World-renowned Japanese composer and musician Ryuichi Sakamoto has died at the age of 71 after battling cancer, his management company KAB America Inc. confirmed to CNN in a statement Sunday.

Devastated communities across the American South and Midwest are digging through debris Sunday after ferocious storms and tornadoes this weekend left at least 27 people dead and leveled neighborhoods, as parts of the Southern Plains brace for the possibility of their own round of severe weather later in the afternoon.

• Opinion: Russia's nuclear blackmail is a spectacular success for Putin • Full hotels, busy ski resorts: Why Ukraine's tourism sector is having a busy war • Video: Hear national security official's warning for Americans in Russia • Russian man whose daughter made anti-war painting sentenced to two years in prison