6 nations talk to Iran about its nukes

Officials from six world powers are due to hold talks with Iranian representatives in Baghdad on Wednesday about Tehran's controversial nuclear program.  Read more...

CNN.com, Today, 12:01pm

Pres. Reagan's blood for sale online?

The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation is threatening legal action over the online sale of a vial purportedly containing dried blood from the former president following a 1981 assassination attempt.  Read more...

CNN.com, Today, 11:36am

Other-ness: What Obama, Romney share

The uproar last week over a proposed campaign ad highlighting President Barack Obama's former pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, lit up political circles before organizers finally backed off the idea.  Read more...

CNN.com, Today, 11:33am

Doctor linked to bin Laden capture jailed

A Pakistani doctor accused of helping the CIA track down Osama bin Laden was sentenced Wednesday to 33 years in prison for treason, officials told CNN.  Read more...

CNN.com, Today, 10:39am

Nancy Reagan nursing broken ribs

Nancy Reagan is recovering from a number of broken ribs after a fall in March, a representative for the former first lady said Tuesday.  Read more...

CNN.com, Today, 10:25am

Body of missing Harvard student found

The desperate search in Portland, Maine, for a Harvard Business School student missing since Sunday ended in heartbreak after his body was found just days before he was to graduate.  Read more...

CNN.com, Today, 9:52am

Russia test-fires new missile

Russia test-fired a ballistic missile Wednesday, a move that comes amid tensions about a recent NATO announcement that it placed an interim missile defense shield in Europe.
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CNN.com, Today, 9:24am

Edwards jury still out

The jury in former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards' corruption trial enters its fourth day of deliberations Wednesday.  Read more...

CNN.com, Today, 8:05am

NATO backs Obama's Afghan exit plan

NATO leaders signed off on President Obama's exit strategy from Afghanistan that calls for a 2013 end to combat operations.  Read more...

CNN.com, May 21, 10:32pm

Prostitution investigation for DEA agents

Three Drug Enforcement Administration agents are under investigation for allegedly hiring prostitutes in Cartagena, Colombia, a congressional source confirms to CNN.  Read more...

CNN.com, May 21, 10:06pm

Iran sanctions get unanimous Senate OK

The U.S. Senate unanimously voted to tighten sanctions on Iran on Monday, three days after a dispute over including the threat of American force stalled the legislation.  Read more...

CNN.com, May 21, 9:50pm

5.8-magnitude quake rattles Bulgaria

A 5.8-magnitude earthquake struck Bulgaria on Tuesday, about 14 miles outside the capital of Sofia, the U.S. Geological Survey said.  Read more...

CNN.com, May 21, 9:02pm

Ex-student gets 30 days in Rutgers case

Ex-Rutgers student Dharun Ravi got 30 days for spying on his gay roommate, Tyler Clementi, with a webcam. Clementi killed himself after he found out about the camera.  Read more...

CNN.com, May 21, 7:46pm

Four people die after reaching Mount Everest summit

The climbers, hailing from four nations, died while coming down the southern slope of Mount Everest after reaching the 29,028-foot summit, officials said.  Read more...

CNN.com, May 21, 7:27pm

No benefits for posthumous conception

A mother of twins born 18 months after the death of the biological father lost her Supreme Court appeal Monday, and the children are not eligible for survival benefits under Social Security.  Read more...

CNN.com, May 21, 5:00pm

2 priests out over sex abuse allegations

The troubled Archdiocese of Philadelphia said Monday that it has ousted two priests due to allegations of sexual abuse of minors.  Read more...

CNN.com, May 21, 3:27pm

Crazy protests hit Chicago

Protesters vowed to carry out disruptive demonstrations Monday in Chicago, a day after baton-wielding police clashed with demonstrators in a violent confrontation that left dozens injured just blocks from where NATO leaders were gathered.  Read more...

CNN.com, May 21, 12:09pm

More than 100 Yemen troops die in blast

A suicide bomber dressed in a military uniform set off a blast that killed more than 100 soldiers Monday, authorities said, in what appears to be the deadliest attack ever on troops in Yemen.  Read more...

CNN.com, May 21, 11:33am

Gang rape allegations for Strauss-Kahn

French officials investigating the ex-IMF chief's alleged participation in a prostitution ring say police will begin looking into incidents in Washington.  Read more...

CNN.com, May 21, 10:42am

GOP problem: Their voters are dying off

When presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney appears before Latino small-business owners in Washington on Tuesday, he'll address a group whose explosive birth rates foreshadow a seismic political shift in GOP strongholds in the Deep South and Southwest.  Read more...

CNN.com, May 21, 10:13am

Back-to-back quakes rattle Italy

Northern Italy was shaken by an aftershock Monday morning, a day after a magnitude-6.0 quake killed at least seven people and left thousands of survivors huddling in tents or cars overnight.  Read more...

CNN.com, May 21, 10:07am

Zelizer: Blame GOP for gridlock

Julian Zelizer says that even impartial observers see that congressional Republicans have taken the partisan wars to extremes  Read more...

CNN.com, May 21, 8:55am

Frum: Yes, worry about the euro crisis

The European financial crisis is poorly understood in the United States.  Read more...

CNN.com, May 21, 8:55am

Flesh-eating bug victim off ventilator

Aimee Copeland, the 24-year-old Georgia woman who lost both hands and feet to a bacterial infection, is now breathing on her own, her father said.  Read more...

CNN.com, May 21, 3:11am

Bee Gee Robin Gibb, 62, dies after cancer battle

Robin Gibb, one of three brothers who made up the disco group the Bee Gees behind "Saturday Night Fever" and other hits from the 1970s, died after a bout with cancer, according to a statement on his website.  Read more...

CNN.com, May 20, 10:22pm

NATO terror plot details emerge

Two suspects who appeared in court in Cook County, Illinois, on Sunday are not believed to be part of an alleged terror plot in Chicago during the NATO summit, prosecutors said Sunday.  Read more...

CNN.com, May 20, 9:52pm

Guard killed in Mississippi prison riot

A prison guard was killed and several employees injured Sunday in a riot at the Adams County Correctional Facility in Natchez, Mississippi, officials said.  Read more...

CNN.com, May 20, 9:42pm

New doctor turned Mrs. Zuckerberg

She likes Target, the Food Network and sun-dried tomatoes. She loves taking pictures of her dog Beast, and admits to checking her phone "every five seconds."  Read more...

CNN.com, May 20, 7:37pm

Victims' families: Relief, fury

Relief expressed Sunday at the death of Pan Am 103 bomber Abdelbeset Ali Mohmed al Megrahi by relatives of some of his 270 victims was tempered by still-smoldering anger at his release from prison more than two years ago.  Read more...

CNN.com, May 20, 6:13pm

Ex-Yemeni President Saleh hospitalized

Former Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh was admitted Sunday to a military hospital in Sanaa, the second time that he's been to a hospital this month, a government official said.  Read more...

CNN.com, May 20, 3:53pm

5 now charged in NATO terror plot

The road map out of the war in Afghanistan is expected to be drawn up by U.S. President Barack Obama and other world leaders when they gather Sunday at the NATO summit in Chicago.  Read more...

CNN.com, May 20, 12:18pm

Italy quake kills at least 7

A strong earthquake struck early Sunday in northern Italy, killing at least seven people and knocking down a church bell in the region, authorities said.  Read more...

CNN.com, May 20, 11:46am

Lockerbie bomber dies

Abdelbeset Ali Mohmed al Megrahi, the Libyan intelligence officer convicted in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Scotland in 1988, has died in Libya. He was 60.  Read more...

CNN.com, May 20, 10:29am

Pakistan blocks Twitter over blasphemy

The Pakistani government has blocked the social networking site Twitter because of material it deemed an affront to Islam, a government official told CNN on Sunday.  Read more...

CNN.com, May 20, 10:11am

21 dead in Yemen al-Qaeda clashes

Fierce clashes between government troops and al-Qaeda fighters Sunday morning in Yemen left 21 people dead, two local security officials told CNN.  Read more...

CNN.com, May 20, 10:05am

S.C. coast under tropical storm watch

A large swath of coastal South Carolina is under a tropical storm watch due to Alberto, the first named tropical storm of the 2012 Atlantic hurricane season.  Read more...

CNN.com, May 20, 1:38am

Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg changes relationship status

Days after his company made its stock market debut, Facebook co-founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg married his longtime girlfriend Priscilla Chan.  Read more...

CNN.com, May 19, 11:47pm

SpaceX rocket launch fizzles on pad

SpaceX aborted the historic launch of its Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station at the last second because of a rocket engine glitch.  Read more...

CNN.com, May 19, 11:26pm

Six school buses crash on way to park

Six school buses bound for a metro Atlanta amusement park were involved in a multi-vehicle crash Saturday, sending 65 people to the hospital, including a seriously injured driver, Georgia authorities said.  Read more...

CNN.com, May 19, 10:53pm

Blind Chinese activist arrives in U.S.

Chen Guangcheng, the Chinese human rights activist who ignited a diplomatic frenzy when he escaped house arrest last month, says he is at a Beijing airport about to board a flight for New York.  Read more...

CNN.com, May 19, 10:30pm

Greek crisis dominates G8 summit

Concerns about whether debt-laden Greece will be forced to pull out of the eurozone, and what that would mean for a weakened European economy is the first topic on Saturday's agenda at the Group of Eight summit hosted by U.S. President Barack Obama, a senior administration official said.  Read more...

CNN.com, May 19, 9:30pm

Three men accused of NATO terror plot

Three people were plotting to attack the campaign headquarters, the Chicago mayor's home and police stations during the NATO summit, police said.  Read more...

CNN.com, May 19, 9:17pm

I'll Have Another wins Preakness

Kentucky Derby winner I'll Have Another won the 137th running of the Preakness Stakes on Saturday, keeping its hopes for the coveted Triple Crown alive.  Read more...

CNN.com, May 19, 9:09pm

Chelsea wins Champions League

Kentucky Derby winner I'll Have Another won the 137th running of the Preakness Stakes on Saturday, keeping its hopes for the coveted Triple Crown alive.  Read more...

CNN.com, May 19, 7:17pm

Transgender woman eyes pageant win

Jenna Talackova, the 23-year-old woman who forced Donald Trump and his Miss Universe Canada pageant to end its ban on transgender contestants, is set to take the stage Saturday night and she says she's in it to win.  Read more...

CNN.com, May 19, 6:06pm

Tropical Storm Alberto forms in Atlantic

Tropical Storm Alberto, the first named storm of the 2012 Atlantic hurricane season, formed Saturday off the coast of South Carolina.  Read more...

CNN.com, May 19, 6:06pm

Plan to raise sunken cruise ship

Salvage experts outlined their plan Friday to raise the wrecked Costa Concordia cruise liner from the sea floor off Italy in one piece and tow it from the disaster site.  Read more...

CNN.com, May 18, 12:19pm

Arrest made in Miss. highway killings

Authorities have arrested a suspect in the case of an alleged police impersonator who is believed to have killed two motorists in Mississippi, the Tunica County Sherriff's Office said.  Read more...

CNN.com, May 18, 12:14pm

Kennedy clan gathers for funeral again

She might have gone unnoticed through the many years of triumphs and tragedies of the Kennedy family. Now the spotlight will be cast, sadly, on Mary Richardson Kennedy.  Read more...

CNN.com, May 18, 12:05pm

Final moments call to girlfriend

Trayvon Martin's girlfriend, talking to him on the telephone, heard the teenager saying, "get off, get off" in the moments before his cell phone cut off and he was shot dead, according to a recording of the girl's interview with a prosecutor released Friday.  Read more...

CNN.com, May 18, 11:48am