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A man was arrested after driving through a Vatican gateway on Thursday evening, according to a statement from the Vatican Press Room, as reported by Vatican News.

An original reality competition series featuring drag queens might seem like a no-brainer today, but when "RuPaul's Drag Race" debuted in 2009 on Logo TV, no one could have guessed that the show would slowly explode in popularity over 15 seasons, across three networks, winning 26 Primetime Emmys and spawning spin-off "All Stars" series, international versions, and even a Monopoly game along the way.

Miley Cyrus's 2023 single "Flowers" -- a track off her latest album "Endless Summer Vacation" -- became the fastest song to cross one billion streams on Spotify in May following its January release.

Halle Bailey might be one of the biggest up-and-coming stars, but even she gets starstruck when it comes to a certain other Halle.

China's Commerce Minister Wang Wentao will meet both US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo and US Trade Representative Katherine Tai next week, the Chinese Embassy said Thursday, as the United States and China try to recalibrate strained relations.

Colombian armed forces have spent more than two weeks searching for survivors of a plane crash in the Amazon jungle, even broadcasting a message recorded by the grandmother of four children onboard, telling them to stay in place.

A Massachusetts man was arraigned Thursday on new charges in the death of a 5-year-old boy, whose body was found in a suitcase near a highway in 2014, prosecutors announced.

Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin has asked the state Supreme Court to review his murder conviction for the 2020 killing of George Floyd, a month after an appeals court denied his previous request for a new trial, court documents show.

For Kenny Pigman, qualifying for the PGA Championship offered him the opportunity to rub shoulders with the game's elite. In reality, one of the game's elite inadvertently left the PGA Professional rubbing his shoulder.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is expected to enter the 2024 GOP presidential race next week, two Republicans familiar with the matter told CNN, initiating his much-anticipated bid to wrestle the future of the party from former President Donald Trump.

During a meeting with more than two dozen bank CEOs on Thursday, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen stressed the urgent need for Congress to address the debt ceiling, according to a readout of the meeting from the Treasury Department.

May 19, 2023

Read CNN's Fast Facts on Jill Biden to learn more about the first lady and wife of 46th US President Joe Biden.

A monthslong investigation into a series of Navy suicides last year found the service failed to provide a basic quality of life for sailors, housing them in unacceptable living conditions and failing to provide adequate mental health resources.

Read CNN's Fast Facts about Dennis Kucinich, former Ohio congressman and presidential candidate.

Read CNN's Fast Facts about Raul Castro, the former President of Cuba and the brother of former President Fidel Castro.

Americans' commitment to freedom of speech is colliding with their dislike of the Chinese government and their addiction to social media.

Gorsuch said that since March 2020, "we may have experienced the greatest intrusions on civil liberties in the peacetime history of this country."

Strippers from the Star Garden Topless Dive Bar in North Hollywood have unanimously won their union election, in a 17-0 vote, creating the first union of strippers in the United States in about a decade.

Two days after his second recent meeting in the Oval Office to discuss raising the debt ceiling, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy sounded positive about the direction of debt limit talks, telling CNN he sees how they can get to a deal and that he wants a bill on the floor next week.