CNN US

Hundreds of passengers were rescued Wednesday from a burning ferry off Puerto Rico.

Despite record levels of dissatisfaction with the Republican and Democratic candidates, nearly 70% of Americans know nothing about the Green Party presidential hopeful Jill Stein, according to a recent Gallup poll.

Toya Graham first made headlines after a televised smackdown of her teenage son during the Baltimore riots last year.

The past several days of unrest in Milwaukee are about years of inequity, high unemployment and oppression, the city's Alderman Khalif Rainey said.

A year after 300 million gallons of heavy metal sludge from the shuttered Gold King Mine gushed into a tributary of the Animas River, the Navajo Nation is suing the Environmental Protection Agency for what it sees as negligence in cleaning up the disaster -- serving up a potent election-year issue for Republicans against one of their favorite targets.

If three of the nation's largest insurers can't make it on the Obamacare exchanges, can anyone?

"The Birth of a Nation" director Nate Parker has responded to the unfolding controversy about a past rape case.

That's about half of Hugh Hefner's original asking price, although it's still enough to make it the most expensive home ever sold in Los Angeles.

For years, the Jabara family says, their neighbor had terrorized them. It came to a head when the man walked up to their front steps and killed one of them, police said.

Every hour, two children 5 or younger are treated in emergency rooms for injuries related to strollers or car carriers, according to researchers.

Kentucky's attorney general is suing health-care giant Johnson & Johnson for millions of dollars, saying the company "concealed and misrepresented" the risk of its transvaginal mesh products to doctors and patients.

Wendell Pierce was a highly visible advocate for post-Hurricane Katrina New Orleans after his parents' home was damaged and now the actor has suffered a similar loss.

Pennsylvania State Attorney General Kathleen Kane has been found guilty of perjury and obstruction, prompting renewed calls for her resignation.

The FBI is expected to send to Congress Tuesday afternoon a report the bureau provided to the Justice Department last month to explain why it recommended no charges in the Hillary Clinton email server investigation, according to US officials briefed on the matter.

The protests in Milwaukee reveal life in one of America's poorest, most segregated cities, where locals say it's easier to buy a gun than get a job.

It's the political version of a 42-3 Super Bowl or a World Series sweep -- an electoral landslide. And while there's still a lot of game time left in 2016, Donald Trump's poll numbers and his campaign hiccups have some political watchers wondering if this White House race could end up as the first landslide in a generation.

Former Fox News chief Roger Ailes is now helping Donald Trump prepare for the upcoming presidential debates, sources with knowledge of the matter confirmed.

After a tumultuous weekend mired in protests and violence, many Milwaukee residents hoped for calm.

Conservatives dissatisfied with Donald Trump have given the Libertarian presidential nominee a chance to take his third party to center stage, but Gary Johnson has not exactly been a fixture on the campaign trail.

On any given day, a look at what's trending in Twitter can shed life on what people are talking about in politics, pop culture, entertainment and hard news.