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China's leader Xi Jinping is to declare the Asian Games open at a lotus-shaped mega stadium in Hangzhou on Saturday.

A rock formation in the Mississippi River normally only reachable by boat is accessible by foot for the second year in a row as water levels plummet.

Russia, the United States and China have all built new facilities and dug new tunnels at their nuclear test sites in recent years, satellite images obtained exclusively by CNN show, at a time when tensions between the three major nuclear powers have risen to their highest in decades.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) carried out strikes on what it called Hamas targets in Gaza on Friday, after militants in the enclave launched incendiary balloons towards Israel for the first time in over a year.

A California man has admitted to lying about having terminal cancer after receiving thousands of dollars in donations to play in a World Series of Poker tournament, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal.

In May, Viveca Chow hurriedly transferred $3,700 over her phone while standing in the lobby of a building in Queens, New York. She made the upfront payment to secure an apartment minutes after seeing it.

A journalist was attacked on Wednesday evening in New York City by an official who was part of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi's camp, a news channel has alleged.

Two men have been charged in the drive-by shooting of an 11-year-old boy in New Mexico -- one of several recent killings cited by the state's governor before she enacted a controversial order suspending open and concealed gun carry laws in parts of the state.

New Jersey Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez was charged on Friday with corruption-related offenses for the second time in 10 years.

Aja Evans, an Olympic bobsled athlete who won bronze at the 2014 Sochi Olympic Winter Games, has filed a lawsuit alleging she was sexually abused by a chiropractor who was working with the USA Bobsled and Skeleton Federation.

California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced Thursday that his office has filed a lawsuit against two organizations that operate crisis pregnancy centers, saying the organizations used "fraudulent and misleading claims" about a procedure they claim can reverse medication abortions.

The prospect of a US government shutdown grows more likely with each passing day as lawmakers have yet to reach a deal to extend funding past a critical deadline at the end of the month.

Tropical Storm Ophelia has strengthened off the East Coast, Hurricane Hunters data shows, as North Carolina and parts of the mid-Atlantic prepare for a soggy and windy weekend ahead of the storm's anticipated landfall.

Vibrant reefs filled with colorful fish and seaweed just two years ago have been turned into a wasteland of crushed corals in the South China Sea and the Philippines says it has identified a culprit -- China's shadowy maritime militia.

The US Coast Guard Academy on Friday announced it had banned a retired captain from its grounds following a CNN report this week that revealed the captain, who is now president of a small college, exchanged hundreds of sexually suggestive messages with a student more than a decade ago.

Justice Elena Kagan said Friday that she thought it would be a "good thing" for the Supreme Court to adapt some version of a code of ethics that governs lower court judges and that she hoped the justices would make progress on the issue soon.

When it comes to taking bribes one might think cash is usually king. Consider Sen. Bob Menendez, who allegedly accepted gold bar bribes, an outlier.

New Jersey Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez was charged with corruption-related offenses for the second time in 10 years. The senior senator faces three alleged crimes, including being on the receiving end of a bribery conspiracy.

If starring roles in "Flatliners" and "Stir of Echoes" taught Kevin Bacon anything, it's not to mess with the spirit world.

Justice Clarence Thomas attended a private dinner in 2018 during a winter donor summit of the Koch network, the political organization founded by libertarian billionaires Charles and David Koch, ProPublica reported Friday.