US lawmakers in 1882 passed the Chinese Exclusion Act, which blocked Chinese workers from coming legally to the country and blocked Chinese immigrants who were already living here from becoming US citizens. The discriminatory law is still echoing today.
Russia has been thwarting US-made mobile rocket systems in Ukraine more frequently in recent months, using electronic jammers to throw off its GPS guided targeting system to cause rockets to miss their targets, multiple people briefed on the matter told CNN.
An Australian man arrested in a conservative area of Indonesia over an alleged violent rampage faces the possibility of prison time and a public flogging, authorities have said.
When a tourist at a Tibetan hotel noticed a foul smell in his room and asked to move, little could he have guessed he would get caught up in a murder investigation.
The video deposition of Donald Trump played before the jury in the E. Jean Carroll civil battery and defamation trial was made public Friday, showing the former president discussing the accusations against him, the "Access Hollywood" tape and the Russia "hoax."
Attorneys for brothers Erik and Lyle Menendez, who were convicted of the 1989 murder of their parents, say new evidence shows the convictions and life sentences should be overturned, according to court documents filed Wednesday.
The White House initially reacted with anxiety toward a decision by Hunter Biden's lawyer to pursue an aggressive legal strategy against increasing Republican attacks on him, sources familiar with the matter told CNN.
Wagner fighters will leave the embattled eastern city of Bakhmut on May 10 due to a lack of ammunition, the group's chief said Friday — a day after releasing a graphic video with an expletive-filled tirade against Moscow's military leadership.
Prosecutors asked a federal judge Friday to sentence Oath Keepers leader Stewart Rhodes to 25 years in prison -- the government's first sentencing request for a person convicted of seditious conspiracy related to the January 6, 2021, US Capitol riot.
After 60 days of pushing through the priorities of Gov. Ron DeSantis -- a contentious slate of policies that have established Florida as the vanguard of the conservative movement's latest fascinations -- state lawmakers concluded their annual legislative session Friday.
Ecuador was known as the "isla de paz" -- an island of peace -- in the 1980s, when compared to its neighbors Colombia and Peru, some of the world's biggest producers of cocaine.
Before Jordan Neely was killed on a New York City subway car this week, he was known for his swift Michael Jackson dance moves that entertained many — yet he struggled with the trauma his mother's murder had left him with at an early age.
The federal Covid-19 public health emergency is set to end May 11, likely bringing strict changes to how people receive care via telehealth. Here's how you should prepare.
The suspect, Deion Duwane Patterson, was armed when he was arrested Wednesday evening, a police chief said. "What his intent was, I can't say. Was he lying in wait? Would he have done something out of desperation to get away? Who knows."
A Pennsylvania man who threw a folding chair at law enforcement and repeatedly used pepper spray on police during the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol was sentenced Friday to more than 14 years in prison -- the longest of any January 6 defendant so far.
Attorneys for E. Jean Carroll and Donald Trump rested their respective cases in the battery and defamation trial against the former president in Manhattan federal court on Thursday evening.