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Two men have been arrested in connection to an attack reported by "Empire" actor Jussie Smollett, the Chicago Police Department said Friday.

President Donald Trump on Friday signed a national emergency declaration to address "an invasion of our country with drugs, with human traffickers, with all types of criminals and gangs." He also spoke about a wide variety of issues, including trade with China and the national debt.

Nigeria's presidential and national assembly elections have been delayed by one week and will now take place on Saturday, February 23, authorities said.

With the shock election of anti-globalist Donald Trump to the US presidency still fresh in their minds, international leaders watched with anticipation as Chinese President Xi Jinping stepped up to the podium at Davos in January 2017.

India is just months away from general elections, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party facing what looks like an increasingly close contest.

The arrest of Maria Ressa, a Time Person of the Year, award-winning journalist and frequent critic of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, has renewed fears for the future of press freedom in the southeast Asian nation and around the region.

Prosecutors on special counsel Robert Mueller's team intend to file a sentencing recommendation in the Paul Manafort case Friday.

A suicide bomber drove a vehicle filled with explosives into an Indian paramilitary convoy in Pulwama, in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir, on February 14. The death toll is at least 40, making it the largest attack in Kashmir in three decades. A Pakistan-based terrorist group, Jaish-e-Muhammad, claimed responsibility through a video released shortly after.

The suspected shooter in Aurora, Illinois, has been apprehended and police officers and civilians are among the people hurt in a shooting at a manufacturing business, officials said Friday.

Facebook is looking into suppressing certain anti-vaccine messaging on its social platform, a move that raises questions about free speech and public health.

Michael Calvey, a US citizen and one of Russia's most prominent foreign investors, has been detained in Moscow in connection with a "large-scale fraud" investigation, a spokeswoman for a Moscow court told CNN on Friday.

As the US continues to work to bolster the administration of self-declared interim Venezuelan President Juan Guaido -- including using US military aircraft to deliver humanitarian aid -- a senior administration official says the US would be willing to meet with Nicolas Maduro to negotiate his exit.

President Donald Trump says he's expecting to be sued over his national emergency declaration to fund his border wall.

Once again, geopolitical tensions are rising on the Indian subcontinent. And the timing, just ahead of India's general elections, could drive the mercury even higher in the coming days and weeks.

In 1991, Kim Sin-yeol and her husband made the unusual decision to move to a lonely outcrop of islands at the heart of a long-standing territorial dispute between Japan and South Korea.

The US commander who has been leading the war against ISIS told CNN Friday that he disagreed with Donald Trump's decision to pull troops out of Syria and warned that the terror group was far from defeated, in a stark public break with the President.

The Vatican's envoy to France, Archbishop Luigi Ventura, is under investigation for sexual assault, a French judicial source told CNN Friday.

Thousands of school students walked out of classrooms across the UK on Friday to join a national climate change protest.

Rapper 21 Savage says his nearly 10-day detention by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency accentuates what he says are the agency's flaws.

Prosecutors investigating R. Kelly are looking into a newly surfaced video featuring the R&B superstar, lawyer Michael Avenatti told CNN.

The head of Britain's MI6 intelligence agency has warned of a resurgence of al Qaeda in Syria's ungoverned areas.

Hundreds of protective marks designed to ward off evil spirits have been found scratched into the walls of an English cave system.

Freshwater lakes, peregrine falcons and a ruined monastery are some of the delights awaiting the buyer of an island off the west coast of Ireland -- as long as they don't mind living in a derelict cottage without running water or electricity.

Current and former employees of an Ohio nursing facility are accused of mistreating two patients in their care, including one who died as a result of the nurses' actions, Attorney General Dave Yost said Thursday.

With time almost up on the clock, Japan rolled the dice on England's south coast.

Bestselling British author Andrea Levy has died from cancer at the age of 62.

The latest round of talks aimed at ending the trade war between the United States and China has finished as the threat of another huge wave of tariffs approaches.

Republicans might be resorting a lot more often to prayer -- the new strategy several senators have adopted for dealing with their capricious President -- because of the forces unleashed by the latest fraught moment of the Trump era.

Last Monday, Travis Kauffman went for a run near Fort Collins, Colorado. Little did he know his workout would include suffocating a mountain lion.

China's biggest ride-hailing firm is axing 15% of its staff and scaling back non-core businesses as it tries to get back on track following the murders of two passengers last year.

Amazon is ditching its plans to build a new headquarters in New York after facing backlash from members of the community.

Many of us experience multiple queues on an average day. If they move quickly, they're soon forgotten. But a slow line can seem to last forever and can put a drag on an entire day.

Ever spent a sleepless night in a hotel room freaking out about all the germs you might be sharing a bed with?

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has called a snap general election for April 28.

In its dying days, ISIS' fight to the bitter end has been captured in exclusive footage obtained by CNN. CNN's Ben Wedeman reports on the counter-attack the terrorist group has launched in eastern Syria.

Sam Bird says he's still pinching himself ahead of this weekend's Mexico City E-Prix after his stunning start to the Formula E season propelled him to the top of the drivers' standings.

"You never know [how good he could have been]," says a visibly emotional Danny Blind, Ajax's former manager and the head of its academy, as he remembers the impact Abdelhak Nouri had at the Dutch club.

India said there was "incontrovertible evidence" that Pakistan had a "direct hand" in a bomb attack on a convoy that killed 37 paramilitary soldiers in Indian-administered Kashmir.

A team of scientists -- including Virgin billionaire Richard Branson -- has returned from a groundbreaking mission to the bottom of Belize's Great Blue Hole with exciting findings.

Misty Diaz showed no fear as she lined up for the Red Bull 400, a brutal foot race straight up the Olympic ski jump in Park City, Utah.

"I love this question because I get it every day, and I always wonder why people are so obsessed with the notion that chocolate causes acne," said Dr. Patricia Farris, a dermatologist and fellow of the American Academy of Dermatology.

A cruise ship crashed into a pier in Puerto Rico while docking, sinking two mooring points in the process.

Indian weddings can be extravagant affairs with couples often showered with lavish gifts and money on their big day.

The Washington Post has reported that President Trump spent $50,000 on a room-sized golf simulator for the White House. CNN's Jeanne Moos looks at what you get for the money.

After British Prime Minister Theresa May suffered another humiliating defeat in the House of Commons, her Brexit plans are no closer to coming together than they were a week ago. In fact, last night's events have pushed Britain closer to a no-deal exit from Europe -- and put her strategy in even greater disarray.

California is at the center of what's known as a "pineapple express" that's bringing heavy rain, snow, wind and flooding to the West Coast over the next few days.

At least 40 people were killed Thursday afternoon when a bomb exploded near a convoy of Indian paramilitary personnel in Indian-controlled Kashmir, according to Kashmir police.

After it was announced that President Trump would likely declare a national emergency to allocate more funding to a border wall, lawmakers from both parties have criticized using his presidential power in this context.