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A former auctioneer has admitted he helped create and verify 25 fake Basquiat paintings that were seized from the Orlando Museum of Art last year, according to authorities.

Xi Jinping has had a busy couple of weeks.

Some South Korean youth are so cut off from the world, the government is offering to pay them to "re-enter society."

A giant snow corridor near the otherworldly Mount Tateyama, one of Japan's three sacred mountains, is reopening to travelers on April 15.

Cyclone Ilsa smashed into a remote stretch of coast in Western Australia around midnight Thursday local time with wind speeds that broke previous records set more than 10 years ago in the same place.

Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson's bromance is well known, their chemistry memorably translating on screen for the critically acclaimed first season of "True Detective."

This is it.

One year after the start of Johnny Depp and Amber Heard's highly publicized defamation trial, CNN has learned from sources close to the actors that the former couple has moved on from their legal battle.

The US State Department said Thursday it is "disappointed" by a Chinese court's decision to uphold the death sentence for American citizen Mark Swidan and called for his immediate release.

Former President Donald Trump is suing Michael Cohen for $500 million in damages for allegedly breaching his contract as Trump's former personal attorney. CNN's Kaitlan Collins talks to Cohen about the lawsuit.

In an exclusive interview with CNN's Kaitlan Collins, Bill Barr, the attorney general for former President Donald Trump, discusses the probe into the classified documents found in Trump's Mar-a-Lago home.

MLB umpire Larry Vanover, who was hit in the head by a throw during Wednesday's New York Yankees and Cleveland Guardians game, remains hospitalized on Thursday, a source with knowledge of the situation told CNN.

New York Red Bulls forward Dante Vanzeir has been suspended for six regular season games after using a racial slur during Saturday's Major League Soccer match against the San Jose Earthquakes, the league announced.

Llano County, Texas, voted to drop discussion for now of possibly defunding the county's library system after a federal judge ordered it to return more than a dozen banned books to library shelves. CNN's Ed Lavandera reports.

• Cyclone Ilsa sets a new wind record as it smashes into Australia's western coast • Watch: Man swims in street during flooding • More than 100 temperature records could be broken across the Midwest and Northeast through Friday

The military identified 11 additional cases of traumatic brain injury following a series of rocket and drone attacks on US troops in Syria in late March, according to a spokesman for US Central Command.

• New lab tests may accelerate Parkinson's diagnosis and research

Arnold Schwarzenegger is not just an action star, he's also a man of action.