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While Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman sat in a Mexican maximum security prison in 2015, his sons, a former cartel associate and even his wife worked together to coordinate details of his final escape, according to the former associate's testimony.

Chinese-Australian writer Yang Hengjun has been detained by Chinese authorities, the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade said on Wednesday.

White House officials were caught off guard Wednesday by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi formally disinviting President Donald Trump from giving his State of the Union address from the House chamber, leaving them scrambling for a response.

President Donald Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen announced he is postponing his public congressional testimony that was scheduled for February 7, citing "ongoing threats against his family."

A former top prosecutor whose actions helped kick off South Korea's #MeToo movement has been jailed.

• Maduro severs relations with US• Analysis: Who is Juan Guaidó?

The White House confirmed Wednesday that President Donald Trump sent a letter to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

The Smithsonian museums have been closed since January 2 because of the government shutdown.

Let's be absolutely clear about something here: Whatever else may have been said about it or our country's reactions to it, the racist disrespect of Nathan Phillips, a Native American elder, by Nick Sandmann and his MAGA-hat clad classmates of Covington Catholic High School at the Lincoln Memorial is nothing new. In fact, it's quite the common thing. In this increasingly depraved society, that kind of behavior is often encouraged or excused as just good ol' American fun.

Global warming will have a variety of effects on our planet, yet it may also directly impact our human biology, research suggests.

BuzzFeed is preparing to lay off about 15% of its employees. The coming contraction is the latest example of a media company making cutbacks in a difficult operating environment.

President Donald Trump will NOT be giving his State of the Union speech on the House floor next Tuesday.

To write an appreciation that fully captures Harris Wofford's amazing life is too big a task for this space. His canvas is too large, his story too sweeping, his causes and accomplishments too vast.

A regular serving of fried chicken or fish is associated with a higher risk of death from any cause except cancer, according to a new study done in postmenopausal women in the United States.

A six-year-old South African DJ received a standing ovation on America's Got Talent show after he wowed judges with his skills.

South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg entered the 2020 race for president on Wednesday, announcing his intentions with a video featuring scenes of him and his husband, Chasten, cooking and playing with their dog, Buddy.

One of Zimbabwe's most celebrated musician Oliver Mtukudzi died Wednesday of an undisclosed ailment, a former colleague has said.

As the standoff between President Donald Trump and congressional Democrats over border security stretches into a second month, examples of how the partial government shutdown is damaging national security are beginning to mount.

Earth didn't exactly start out ready to support life, but scientists now have a better idea of how the essential elements for life ended up on our planet, according to a study published Wednesday in the journal Science Advances.

As teenage girls, they raced down snow-covered Alpine slopes in pursuit of winning Olympic gold. They were revered by millions of Austrians who cheered them as national heroes, their best athletes, the pride of a small nation.

China has a message for the Davos crowd: Fear about an economic slowdown is overblown.

Emiliano Sala wanted to say goodbye one final time.

British police searching for missing Argentine soccer player Emiliano Sala say they are prioritizing their search based on the possibility that Sala and the other person on board the aircraft which lost contact on the English Channel have landed on water and made it onto the life raft which was on board the plane.

A Taiwanese airline says it may ban an overweight passenger who allegedly forced members of an all-female cabin crew to undress him in the lavatory and then assist him in the bathroom.

One of Naomi Osaka's Japanese sponsors has apologized after releasing a advertisement which has been widely accused of "whitewashing" the tennis star's skin tone.

Under a threat of potential jail time, a group of British online influencers including Ellie Goulding, Rita Ora and Zoella have agreed to change how they post online, after their social media profiles were investigated by an advertising watchdog.

Heading to China to usher in the Year of the Pig? Brace yourself, because things are about to get wild.

If you've resolved to eat healthier at one point or another, you may have been enticed by popular nutrition trends, like organic or gluten-free eating, or even vegetarianism.

The nominees for the 91st Academy Awards were revealed Tuesday morning.

It may look like a typical Washington farce, but a pair of Senate show votes this week might just be the first, tentative step on a long road out of the longest government shutdown in history.

Officials in South Korea will interview thousands of adult and child athletes about alleged abuses within the East Asian country's sports culture, following a series of dramatic revelations from female skaters.

Serena Williams' last two losses at grand slams couldn't have been more dramatic.

A nudge above the equator in one of the most biodiverse places in Africa lives an almost-mythical mammal that few people have ever seen.

The Chinese model who starred in a series of controversial Dolce & Gabbana videos has said the controversy surrounding the campaign almost ruined her career.

President Donald Trump is publicly siding with the mostly white students of a Kentucky high school who were engaged in a confrontation with a Native American elder that renewed a sensitive national debate about race relations in America.

Chinese authorities say they have busted an underground money-smuggling ring used to launder more than $4.4 billion through the Asian gambling hub of Macau.

Columnist, author and "Masterpiece Theatre" host Russell Baker has died at age 93, according to The New York Times.

The trumpet sounds, clear and exultant, and is greeted by a crescendo of boos.

The United States will soon make a formal request for the extradition of Huawei's chief financial officer, marking the next step in a case that has set off a geopolitical storm.

A viral video has once again confirmed everyone's preconceptions about human nature, the state of our politics and even "kids nowadays."

The discussion over what happened between competing groups of people on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on Friday doesn't appear to be going away anytime soon.

The FBI has lost several informants that had penetrated groups at the center of terrorism investigations.

There's a challenge of a grand jury subpoena that's now before the Supreme Court -- and very little is known about it. Still, the case has gained widespread attention after it was connected to the special counsel's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.

Former Governor John Hickenlooper (D-CO) reacts to former Secretary of State John Kerry saying that if he could speak to President Donald Trump directly, Kerry would tell him to "resign."

Singer Chris Brown has been arrested in Paris, accused of aggravated rape and drug violations, a French judicial source told CNN.

A Belarusian model who claimed to have insider knowledge of Russian attempts to meddle in the US elections has been freed from police custody in Moscow, state media reported.

Two of Japan's major convenience store chains will take sexually explicit material off their shelves by the summer, ahead of major sporting events that will see a huge influx of foreign tourists to the country.

The Transportation Security Administration is making a plea for 250 people to bolster its workforce of backup officers, the latest sign the agency is straining under the pressure of the shutdown, according to an internal email sent Monday morning from a TSA executive and obtained exclusively by CNN.

The Senate will take two key votes on Thursday on competing proposals aimed at ending the ongoing government shutdown -- one backed by Republicans and the other backed by Democrats and both likely to fail.