Jennifer DeStefano's phone rang in January with a terrifying call from her sobbing 15-year-old daughter, saying she'd been kidnapped. But as a relieved DeStefano soon learned, her daughter was safe and the call was a scam.
A jury in California has convicted a woman of lying to authorities about a couple attempting to kidnap her children at a Bay Area Michaels craft store in 2020.
Matika Wilbur logged 450,000 miles for the photography series and book "Project 562," an astoundingly ambitious portrait of contemporary Native American life.
There's been a series of findings about Supreme Court justices failing to fully disclose gifts and real estate deals. Here's what the former director of the US Office of Government Ethics has to say about ethics rules for justices.
The influential sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has hit back at a key agreement made between the US and South Korea, claiming it will only serve to worsen security.
A Texas man who was allegedly scammed of $40 in parking fees while on a date shot and killed the man who posed as the lot's attendant -- and then "nonchalantly" walked away to proceed with his dinner plans, court records show.
Since delivering Biden one of his biggest legislative wins last summer, Manchin has spent the last few months on a rampage against the administration, homing in on what he calls its "radical climate agenda."
Most people's idea of fun wouldn't involve running for hours on end through brutal, undulating terrain -- but ultra-marathon sensation Courtney Dauwalter is no ordinary person.
Russian pilots tried to "dogfight" US jets over Syria, according to a spokesman for US Central Command, part of a recent pattern of more aggressive behavior.
In the six months since Elon Musk completed his acquisition of Twitter, the billionaire has turned the platform on its head by overhauling how it decides which accounts to verify.
Just when it seemed as if the playoff series between the Florida Panthers and Boston Bruins couldn't contain any more drama, it delivered a pulsating Game 6, complete with a spectacular between-the-legs goal, four goals in seven minutes and a shock 7-5 victory for the Panthers.
There's much to experience in the state of Veracruz: The ritualistic, pole-flying acrobatics of the Voladores, some of Mexico's best coffee, staples of Mexican cuisine, a key museum and lush hiking terrain.
Incredible Italian home makeovers, jaw-dropping marine discoveries and ritzy new trains in Scotland and Taiwan. We've got all this and more in our latest roundup of news and features from CNN Travel.
On at least three occasions over the last two months, former President Donald Trump has claimed that the leaders of unnamed South American countries are deliberately emptying their "insane asylums" and "mental institutions" to send the patients to the United States as migrants.
Drag performers have come under fire in the US after recent bills have attempted to restrict the art form. Historians and performers explain that the long, defiantly joyful history of drag will help it survive despite attempts to erase it.
Three civilians were injured and a gas station set on fire early Saturday near the Syrian city of Homs in an attack that Syria blamed on Israeli rockets, Syria's state news agency SANA reported, citing a military official.
Russia unleashed what is believed to have been the deadliest attack on Ukrainian civilians in months on Friday, killing at least 23 people in an early-morning missile strike on an apartment block in the city of Uman.
