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A suicide bombing killed 48 people, including women and children, Wednesday in northern Syria, the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

Donald Trump went "beyond the pale" in calling on Russia to hack Hillary Clinton's email on Wednesday, former CIA Director and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta told CNN's Christiane Amanpour in an exclusive interview.

Notoriously private Kristen Stewart is opening up about her love life.

Throwback to 2014, the year of the Ellen DeGeneres Oscar selfie, Pharrell's giant hat, and the Ice Bucket Challenge. These fads "broke the internet" (a phrase also coined in 2014) dominating social media feeds across the globe.

Prosecutors are dropping charges against the remaining Baltimore officers who were facing trial in connection with Freddie Gray's death.

Chinese gadget maker Xiaomi has unveiled its first-ever laptop -- a sleek machine with solid performance specs and an attractive price.

The night sky is lighting up this summer.

When I was the director at the Federal Nixon Library in Yorba Linda, California, we had a group of dedicated volunteers from Orange County who cared deeply about their country and history. After we released another set of Nixon White Tapes, which included among other things some outrageous anti-Semitic and otherwise prejudiced mutterings, one of these volunteers asked me whether the rumors were true; had I personally falsified these tapes in Washington to make "the President" look bad? (The volunteers usually referred to Richard Nixon as the President even four decades after his leaving the White House). Were they kidding? No.

Apple stock spiked over 7% on Wednesday, on track for its best day since April 2014. If it surges 9% or more by the end of day, it'd be the biggest advance since at least 2008.

Hillary Clinton hasn't even said anything about the Trans-Pacific Partnership recently -- and yet, in 24 hours, she became embroiled in a new controversy about her stance on the deal.

As a human rights group tells it, this is what witnesses say is happening to some of the thousands arrested after this month's failed coup in Turkey: captured military officers being raped by police; hundreds of detained soldiers beaten; some withheld food, water and access to lawyers for days.

The scent of chaos hangs heavy in the air. Donald Trump evokes it in Cleveland. Islamic State sows it in Nice, Brussels, Paris, Orlando. Britain is immersed in it after Brexit, while the EU struggles to prevent its onset amid mounting crises of migration and political legitimacy. Ukraine and Syria are being torn apart by it, and Turkey looks fragile after a failed coup.

Hillary Clinton will shatter another glass ceiling on Tuesday when she becomes the first female presidential nominee of a major party in the nation's 240-year history.

President Barack Obama on Tuesday wouldn't rule out the possibility that Russian President Vladimir Putin could be attempting to tip the US presidential election toward Donald Trump.

"You wanna try me, right?"

Hillary Clinton is calling on her biggest advocate Tuesday night.

Now this is a sweet bit of community policing.

An Australian man has won the raffle of a lifetime, taking home an entire Pacific island resort for the price of a $49 ticket.

There is "little doubt" Russia is behind the hack of Democratic National Committee emails, a US official told CNN on Wednesday.