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A 29-year-old activist who rose to prominence in the protests following the police killing of Michael Brown was found dead in a burning car in a St. Louis suburb, according to police.

Joe Hosteen Kellwood, one of the Navajo code talkers during World War II, has died at age 95.

Three police officers and a helicopter pilot were killed Tuesday when criminals downed the aircraft in the state of Michoacan in southwestern Mexico, the state governor said in a tweet.

A retired army general is slamming Donald Trump's remarks that as President he will ask the US military to come up with a plan within one month to defeat ISIS.

Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto is expected to announce at a news conference Wednesday that his finance minister, Luis Videgaray, will be out of his cabinet, a Mexican federal government official confirmed to CNNE.

It might be time to rethink the millennial voter.

A new national poll out Wednesday shows Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump locked in a virtual tie, the latest survey to show an exceedingly tight race with just over two months to go before Election Day.

It's not just a runaway tongue that worries the United States about the volatile new president of the Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte. It's what else he's thinking.

Teen pregnancy is way down. And a study suggests that the reason is increased, and increasingly effective, use of contraceptives.

At least 9 people died after a mudslide ravaged southern Guatemala early Wednesday, according to volunteer firefighters in the municipality of Villa Nueva.

A pair of high school students probably thought they got the best of a fellow student who's deaf. Instead they ended up bringing him a world of support.

Apple, don't you do it. Don't you dare do it.

Fresh airstrikes rained down on a rebel-held neighborhood in east Aleppo Wednesday, killing two people at a market where an alleged chlorine gas attack injured more than 100 people only a day earlier, an activist told CNN.

Up against Serena Williams in the US Open quarterfinals later Wednesday, Simona Halep will be relying on a piece of cutting-edge technology to get an edge over the 22-time major winner.

Parents and children who loved reading the "Llama Llama" book series are remembering the author and illustrator, Anna Dewdney, who passed away at her home in Vermont on Saturday.

The actor was so excited to meet the superstar gymnast on the "Ellen" show that he transformed into a medal stand just for her.

Fox News prizes stability. But right now the proverbial ground there is shaking

Tuesday night's "Bachelor in Paradise" gave you what you came for.

Police say that a North Carolina man is on the run after shooting his ex-wife, killing his 15-year-old son and then live-streaming his escape on Facebook.