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Three Republican senators made a last-ditch effort Wednesday night to strike a bargain with President Donald Trump and help him avoid an embarrassing defeat in the Senate over his national emergency declaration.

Beto O'Rourke announced Thursday he is running for president, entering the 2020 race with a call for Americans to look past their differences in order to confront the challenges facing the country.

Nearly 3,100 flights have been canceled over two days as a "bomb cyclone" makes its way across parts of the country, unleashing blizzard conditions and hurricane-force winds.

A former British soldier will stand trial for firing on civil rights protesters in Northern Ireland in 1972, an event that came to be known as Bloody Sunday, prosecutors said. But 16 other ex-paratroopers will face no action.

A partial Facebook outage affecting users around the world has stretched beyond 14 hours, but was showing some signs of ending early Thursday. It's believed to be the biggest interruption ever suffered by the social network.

The college admissions scandal reinforced for many what they have long believed: That the process can be gamed by those with wealth and influence.

It would be hard to think of a more damaging day for a President than one on which his former campaign chairman disappeared behind bars for years to come. But Paul Manafort's new sentence was the least of Donald Trump's worries Wednesday as his Russia investigation nightmare took yet another turn for the worse.

More than 1,100 motorists were stranded in Colorado as a ferocious winter storm -- a "bomb cyclone" -- unleashed hurricane-force winds and blizzard conditions in parts of the central United States.

Malaysian prosecutors declined to withdraw a murder charge against one of the two women accused of using the deadly nerve agent VX to murder the half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, just days after allowing her co-defendant to walk free.

Beto O'Rourke said he feels called to run in 2020, according to a Vanity Fair profile published Wednesday on the potential Democratic Party presidential contender.

CNN meteorologist Jennifer Gray explains what a "bomb cyclone" is and and how it forms.

At least six people were killed Wednesday in a shooting at a school near Sao Paulo, Brazil, the local government said on its official Twitter account.

The biggest college admissions scam ever prosecuted in the US is a harsh reminder that wealthy families can cheat their way to even greater privilege. And some say this scandal is just the tip of the iceberg.

With the Syrian Civil War entering its ninth year this month, the Trump administration is proposing to zero out all new US funding for stabilization efforts in the country.

Sources tell CNN the White House is warning Republicans there could be consequences in 2020 if they vote against President Donald Trump's national emergency declaration at the southern border. Conservative writer Bill Kristol discusses with CNN's Jake Tapper.

A few days before Caroline Karanja boarded the ill-fated Ethiopian Airlines flight to Kenya that crashed on Sunday, she sent a message to her sister saying she had an uneasy feeling.

An attorney who said he was speaking with President Donald Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani reassured Michael Cohen in an April 2018 email that Cohen could "sleep well tonight" because he had "friends in high places," according to a copy of an email obtained by CNN.

Two US B-52 bombers flew near contested islands in the South China Sea on Wednesday, according to US Pacific Air Forces, which oversees air operations in the region.

An airline has apologized to a 21-year-old woman for threatening to offload her from a flight for wearing "inappropriate" attire.

Hundreds of demonstrators protested outside an Italian court this week after it emerged that two men were acquitted of rape partly because the judges believed the alleged victim looked too "masculine."

Human activities are degrading the global environment at a pace that could endanger the "ecological foundations of society" and human health, according to a landmark United Nations report released Wednesday.

Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei says the US government's campaign against the Chinese tech company risks damaging America's international reputation.

The college admissions scheme revealed Tuesday is the largest of its kind ever prosecuted, federal prosecutors said, and features 50 defendants across six states, millions of dollars in illegally funneled funds and a handful of the country's most selective universities.

India's ruling Hindu nationalist party, which stormed to power five years ago in the world's biggest democracy, is on the defensive as the next general election approaches but the opposition Congress has failed to press home its advantage.

Cardinal George Pell, the most senior Vatican official to be convicted of sex abuse to date, has been sentenced to six years in prison for the assault of two choirboys in the late 1990s.

Abdullahi Ibrahim Mohammad, a lab technician in Saudi Arabia, was one of 157 passengers killed when an Ethiopian Airlines flight crashed shortly after takeoff. CNN's Farai Sevenzo speaks with family members in Kenya who were awaiting a visit from Mohammad, but now instead, they await his remains.

More than 3,000 ISIS fighters have surrendered amid a pitched battle by US-backed forces to retake the last ISIS stronghold in Syria.

One of K-pop's biggest idols has dramatically quit the entertainment industry after it emerged he is being investigated on suspicion of violating South Korea's prostitution law.

Actresses Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin are among the dozens accused of conspiring to get unqualified students into prestigious colleges.

Add modern aviation technology to the list of technological advances the President of the United States distrusts.

Two climbers have died and another two are injured after an avalanche on the UK's highest mountain, Ben Nevis, Britain's Press Association reports.

Prominent Iranian human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh has been sentenced to 38 years in prison and 148 lashes, according to her family.

A huge power outage has swept across Venezuela, leaving many states without power and many homes without running water.

North Korea has broken UN sanctions with a "massive" increase of oil imports and coal exports, a UN report has found.

Tucker Carlson portrayed himself as the victim of a "mob" on Monday night. And he said Fox News has his back.