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President Donald Trump is taking his case to the American people over why they should back him in the partial government shutdown.

A 20-year-old man arrested in connection with a data breach that affected thousands of people in Germany has confessed to police, the country's federal prosecutor, Georg Ungefuk, told reporters at a press conference in Wiesbaden on Tuesday.

Seven-time champions Egypt will host this year's African Cup of Nations.

President Trump is tapping into one of the powers of the presidency, a televised Oval Office address, for his first time. He will receive wall-to-wall coverage for his pro-wall speech on Tuesday night. And to say that there are mixed feelings about that is an understatement.

Still just 19 years old, Trevor Lawrence isn't eligible for the NFL draft until 2021. But right now, he might be the best college football quarterback since Peyton Manning, who happens to be Lawrence's idol.

A television station in Rochester, New York, fired a meteorologist Sunday after he used a racial slur on air.

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has been the wealthiest person on the planet for more than a year. Now, Amazon is the most valuable company in the world.

President Donald Trump will address the country at 9 p.m. ET tomorrow on the issue of immigration and, presumably, the ongoing fight over a border wall that has kept the federal government shut for the past 17 days.

An 18-year-old Saudi woman who fled her family and barricaded herself in a Bangkok airport hotel room, saying she feared death at their hands if returned to them, has been released from the airport and is now under the protection of the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) and Thai authorities.

Three years ago, Ganga Limbu could see little future beyond her hometown in eastern Nepal.

As Roger Federer prepares to defend his Australian Open title, an emotional interview with CNN Sport reveals just how much the Swiss continues to mourn the loss of Australian Peter Carter.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has arrived in China for a three-day visit at the invitation of Chinese President Xi Jinping, Chinese and North Korean state media reported Tuesday.

A far-right German lawmaker has been beaten unconscious by at least three masked assailants in an attack seen by police as "politically motivated."

At least one person is dead after an oil tanker caught fire south of one of Hong Kong's main islands.

Former Uber driver Jason Dalton pleaded guilty Monday to killing six people during a 2016 shooting spree in Kalamazoo, Michigan.

Carlos Ghosn is for the first time giving his version of the events that led to his arrest in Tokyo seven weeks ago on suspicion of financial misconduct.

One perk of being a pilot is a front-row seat to the Earth's natural wonders -- from jaw-dropping sunrises to silver slivers of lightning against ink colored-clouds.

Joe Biden is the elephant in the room for the 2020 Democratic primary.

Cyntoia Denise Brown, a woman serving a life sentence for killing a man who bought her for sex when she was 16 years old, has been granted clemency, the Tennessee governor's office said Monday.

Actor Kevin Spacey has arrived to a Nantucket court for his arraignment on Monday and is expected to plead not guilty to accusations that he allegedly groped an 18-year-old busboy at a bar on the island.

It's not just Apple — Samsung is hurting, too.

The new Impossible Burger might make some vegetarians uncomfortable.

A stand-up comedian and women's right-to-drive activist, Fahad al-Butairi and Loujain al-Hathloul, were once seen as a groundbreaking Saudi power couple in a country that was rapidly relaxing its strict social rules.

Amazon has pulled more than a dozen products off its website after receiving complaints that the items are offensive to Muslims.

China will face an "unstoppable" population decline over the coming decades, with fewer and fewer workers struggling to support an increasingly aging society, according to a report by a leading state-sponsored Chinese thinktank.

Senate Democrats will try to block action on a Syria sanctions bill when it comes up for a vote Tuesday, an effort to keep the focus on the government shutdown.

World Bank President Jim Yong Kim abruptly resigned nearly three years ahead of schedule on Monday, setting up an opening for President Donald Trump to fill -- and a potential clash with other countries over the long-standing practice of the US making the appointment.

President Trump is taking to the airwaves Tuesday to deliver a prime-time speech he has billed as, "On the Humanitarian and National Security Crisis on our Southern Border." In one of the most classic gambits of 20th century presidential history, the President will try to use the power of the bully pulpit to increase public pressure on Congress to give in to his demand to finance a "border wall."

President Donald Trump claims his administration is "doing very well in negotiations with China," but the US team heading to Beijing this week is starting almost from scratch.

The big four broadcast networks are deliberating over President Donald Trump's request to air a Tuesday night prime time address on border security, a network executive told CNN.

The government in Gabon says the "situation is under control" and that rebels there have been arrested after military officers seized state media and announced they had leadership of the country.

At a small, clinically-lit studio in Tokyo's Roppongi district, fearsome warriors and mythical creatures glare out from paper drawings lining the perimeter of the space.

As Democrats like Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) position themselves to become presidential candidates, supporters of Joe Biden are hoping to learn within weeks if he will enter the 2020 race. CNN's Jeff Zeleny reports.

During an interview on Fox News, host Chris Wallace disputed White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders' claim that terrorists pour into the US from across the border with Mexico.

From renovated heritage buildings to jungle camps reached by zipwire, here are some of the most striking additions to Asia's hotel landscape over the past 12 months.

It's a document that became so famous — or infamous — in the two years since its existence was reported that it's now known by a simple two-word phrase: the dossier.

Five weary college men from Texas A&M's Corps of Cadets are trudging into Portland, Oregon, on Monday, capping an 11-day, 1,100-mile odyssey from Death Valley, California.

Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez's proposal to raise the top income tax rate to 70% would do nothing to those billionaires who pay little or no tax on their wealth, but the idea of reforming the tax code to reduce inequality is sound, Edward J. McCaffery writes.

When a number of US diplomats and their families in Cuba reported hearing bizarre noises in 2016 and 2017-- and experienced a range of symptoms such as dizziness, vertigo, and pain and ringing in the ears -- US Department of State officials feared they might have fallen victim to an "acoustic attack" by sonic devices.

Senior US trade officials plan to host China's top trade negotiator later this month in Washington, according to a person familiar with the plans.

President Donald Trump aims to seize the power of the bully pulpit in the ongoing government shutdown debate stalemated over border wall funding by delivering a prime-time address Tuesday.

New York Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is a talented, charismatic young politician who has struck the political world with a force and impact rarely seen among even those who have been at it for a much longer time. That said, she is very new to all of this -- she had never run for anything before she beat Rep. Joe Crowley in a primary last summer -- and she makes beginner's mistakes.

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has doubled down on his complaints of unfair treatment at the hands of his opponents by demanding the right to confront the men who have turned state's witness against him in three corruption investigations.

This week Donald Trump's two senior foreign policy advisers --Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and national security adviser John Bolton -- will be in the Middle East trying to explain US policy, particularly on Syria, while reassuring the Arabs and Israel that the US isn't abandoning the region.

Injury delayed the start of her farewell season, but Lindsey Vonn is fit again and set to return to action in St. Anton, Austria this weekend.

China started out the year by doing something that no nation has done before: It landed a spacecraft and an accompanying rover on the far side of the moon with an ambitious scientific payload package and an exciting mission ahead to study the interior structure of the moon with the help of ground-penetrating radar, among other things.