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The Spanish government aggressively moved to squash Catalonia's growing independence movement Saturday when Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy announced plans to dissolve the regional government, remove elected leaders as soon as possible and hold new elections.

President Donald Trump said Saturday that the United States would soon transition into a "new phase" of involvement in Syria after US-backed forces drove ISIS members from Raqqa, the city they deemed their capital.

One year ago, Jeff Bezos's future seemed uncertain.

After Hurricane Maria toppled the bridge that connects him to the rest of civilization and ripped the roof and walls off his house here in the central mountains of Puerto Rico, Ramón Sostre raised a weathered American flag above the wreckage.

European leaders have indicated that they are ready to start discussing their relationship with the UK after Brexit, giving embattled British Prime Minister Theresa May a much-needed boost after months of talks that appeared to be going nowhere.

US-backed militias on Friday declared the "total liberation" of the Syrian city of Raqqa, which for more than three years was the de facto capital of ISIS.

The fatal effects of pollution are seen across our planet.

CNN's Arwa Damon reports from one of the main squares in Raqqa, Syria, where ISIS carried out its public executions.

Is Japan's problem-plagued economy finally turning a corner?

Upheaval in Spain. An outbreak in California. Celebration in India. What do you remember from the week that was?

Few issues have divided the Australian public in recent times as much as the vote on same-sex marriage.

A group of Portuguese children whose district was ravaged by deadly forest fires this summer is to sue 47 European nations, accusing them of failing to take action on climate change.

In July, a group of long-time, mostly Latino residents of Los Angeles' Boyle Heights neighborhood staged protests outside a trendy new coffee shop called Weird Wave Coffee, holding signs that read "Amerikkkano" and "WHITE COFFEE."

2017 has been a year of rapid progress for North Korea's missile program.

Google, a company that's built everything from a search engine to a self-driving car, will now try its hand at a city neighborhood.

It was here, at the main square in Raqqa, that ISIS militants unveiled their brutality to the world -- they carried out public executions for offenses as minor as smoking and placed the heads of the dead on spikes.

In 1999, Rebecca Constantino began doing a study at schools across Los Angeles.

Rebecca Constantino's nonprofit, Access Books, provides books and refurbishes libraries for low-income schools across California.

With the help of a robot from CNN Hero Leslie Morissette's nonprofit, one fourth grader stays connected to his school and friends while battling leukemia.