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An unusual promotional stunt at a hockey game in South Dakota saw a group of schoolteachers competing for a pile of cash by scrambling on their hands and knees to grab fistfuls of dollar bills.

On Monday, Alaska Senate candidate Kelly Tshibaka made a provocative announcement.

Six FBI agents were investigated for allegedly soliciting prostitution, trafficking drugs and failing to report unofficial interactions for foreign nationals while on assignment overseas, a Justice Department watchdog says.

A Georgia man who drove cross-country with an assault rifle and threatened to kill House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was sentenced to 28 months behind bars during in an emotional hearing on Tuesday.

Suspended South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh has agreed to a $4.3 million settlement with the family of Gloria Satterfield, his former housekeeper, according to family attorney, Eric Bland.

As former Vice President Mike Pence weighs his future in politics -- laying the groundwork for a possible presidential campaign in 2024 and supporting Republican candidates who face reelection next fall -- former President Donald Trump said Pence is "mortally wounded" inside the GOP.

Potential witnesses in Ghislaine Maxwell's defense case wish to testify anonymously because they "might get a lot of unwanted attention" testifying on Maxwell's behalf, attorney Christian Everdell said in court Friday after the government rested its case.

More than two dozen members of the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers are being sued by District of Columbia Attorney General Karl Racine in an effort to recover the millions of dollars the city spent to defend the US Capitol during the January 6 attack.

Siarhei Tsikhanouski, the husband of Belarusian opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, has been sentenced to 18 years in prison at a high-security penal colony, Belarusian state media BelTA reported on Tuesday.

Former President Donald Trump's new media venture has no known revenue or product.

From extreme melt events to an influx of beaver colonies in Alaska, and rain falling at the summit of Greenland for the first time on record, the Arctic region showed clear symptoms of an ailing planet over the past year.

Dr. Anthony Fauci says that new data from a study that shows that vaccines are less effective against Omicron infections but are more effective in stopping hospitalizations is a good argument for getting a Moderna or Pfizer booster, because a third shot will improve efficacy against infection.

"Despite months of persuasion, despite intensive media campaigns, despite discussions in various media we have not succeeded in convincing enough people to get vaccinated." Those were the words of former Austrian Chancellor Alexander Schallenberg last month as he announced the first nationwide vaccine mandate in Europe.

Pfizer's updated results for its experimental treatment for Covid-19 showed it cut the risk of hospitalization or death by 89% if given to high-risk adults within a few days of their first symptoms, the company announced in a news release Tuesday.

After months of investigation, House select committee members publicly laid out their case that Mark Meadows was an accessory to the insurrection. President Donald Trump didn't listen to his son or media enablers to stop the riot. CNN's Whitney Wild reports.

Germany is teetering on the brink of recession this winter as supply bottlenecks and a wave of new coronavirus cases hobble the economy.

NatWest has been fined £265 million ($350.9 million) for failing to prevent the laundering of nearly £400 million, in the first criminal money laundering case against a British bank.

Donald Trump Jr. was frantic. Fox News personalities who now dismiss the violence at the US Capitol were begging the White House to do something. On January 6, then-President Donald Trump wasn't listening to his kids or his media enablers.

Dr. Shabir Madhi, professor of vaccinology at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, says that even though Omicron is spreading at a higher rate than the Delta variant, it is killing people at a lower rate indicating an "uncoupling of infection and severe disease and death."

The destruction was instantaneous as many homes and businesses were tossed in the air after a tornado outbreak across eight states -- but those who survived, many of whom are left with only the clothes on their backs, now face a daunting path toward recovery.

Chinese social media platform Weibo Corp has been slapped with a 3 million yuan ($470,000) fine by China's internet regulator for repeatedly publishing illegal information.

China's largest telecom company has received the green light to raise billions of dollars for its 5G ambitions by listing shares in Shanghai, months after it was kicked out of New York.

CNN's Don Lemon weighs in on text messages from lawmakers, Fox News hosts and Donald Trump Jr. to former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows during the January 6 Capitol Hill riot.

A 7.6-magnitude earthquake struck off eastern Indonesia on Tuesday, according to the US Geological Survey (USGS).

Former President Donald Trump's son, Fox news personalities and lawmakers texted Mark Meadows on January 6, imploring the then-White House chief of staff to get the then-President to stop the rioting at the Capitol -- just several of the explosive new details from the House select committee as it met on Monday to vote to officially advance referring Meadows to the Justice Department on a criminal contempt of Congress charge.

A mother and her two children survive being thrown into the air by tornado and landing 200 feet away from their home in Dawson Springs, Kentucky. CNN's Ed Lavandera reports.

On Monday, members of the committee tasked with investigating the January 6 insurrection revealed texts between former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and several high-profile individuals as the violence unfolded, including Trump's son, Donald Trump Jr., who urged Meadows to help push the President to condemn the riot in real-time.

Hundreds of millions of devices around the world could be exposed to a newly revealed software vulnerability, as a senior Biden administration cyber official warned executives from major US industries Monday that they need to take action to address "one of the most serious" flaws she has seen in her career.

Rep. Liz Cheney reads aloud texts sent to former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows during the January 6 riot on the Capitol. The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot is moving forward with criminal contempt proceedings against Meadows after he halted cooperation with the panel.

When the highly infectious Delta variant hit China in the summer, some public health experts were hopeful that the country could soon receive an immunity boost from BioNTech's highly effective mRNA Covid-19 vaccine.

The Omicron variant of coronavirus is spreading quickly in several countries where it has been discovered. Even if it causes only mild disease -- and that's far from certain -- that could still mean many people end up in the hospital and dying.

USA Gymnastics, the US Olympic and Paralympic Committee and their insurers agreed to pay $380 million in a settlement with the victims of Larry Nassar, the former Olympic doctor who sexually abused girls for decades, according to an attorney for multiple victims.

Anne Sacoolas, the US woman accused of killing a British teenager while driving on the wrong side of the road in England, will face criminal proceedings in the UK early next year, the UK Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said Monday.

Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer who was convicted in April on state murder charges for killing George Floyd, is scheduled to appear at a change of plea hearing Wednesday in the federal civil rights case against him, according to court documents.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has lamented the collapse of the Soviet Union three decades ago as the demise of what he called "historical Russia," and said the economic crisis that followed was so bad he was forced to moonlight as a taxi driver.

Tensions between the Kremlin and the West are locked in a worrying cycle, with no sign yet that Vladimir Putin has been moved by threats of economic retaliation if his troops invade neighboring Ukraine. The Russian President has expressed desire for an in-person meeting with US President Joe Biden -- but will the White House gamble on that?

UK Shadow Foreign Secretary David Lammy talks to Christiane Amanpour about Britian's covid crisis and the controversies swirling around Prime Minister Boris Johnson.

Britain is facing a "tidal wave" of infections from the new Omicron coronavirus variant, ministers have warned, as they sound the alarm on rapid transmission rates in London and across the country.

Former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows sent an email saying the National Guard would be present to 'protect pro Trump people' in the lead up to the US Capitol insurrection, according to a new contempt report released by the January 6 committee Sunday night.

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has met with Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed at his private palace in Abu Dhabi, according to Bennett's office.

Doja Cat has announced she's dropped out of the 2021 iHeartRadio Jingle Ball Tour after testing positive for Covid-19.

Despite anxiety about inflation and the Omicron variant, the stock market is on track for another banner year. That's in large part thanks to stellar gains from just a handful of stocks.