Over a million tickets were sold as hopeful players tried their luck, but no one scored in Wednesday’s Powerball jackpot, sending the prize soaring to an estimated $856 million.
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Sen. Mitch McConnell said that he has been discharged from the rehabilitation center where he had been recovering after a fall and will continue to recover at home.
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Fire crews in Washington state working tirelessly to contain destructive blazes in the Spokane area are preparing for a new bout of flame-fueling winds and intense heat that will arrive on Friday and continue through the weekend.
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50 years after a US ban, the door is cracked open again to faster-than-sound travel over land. But the airline industry still has one – rather loud – problem to fully solve.
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Senate panel votes to hold Dr. Anthony Fauci in contempt of Congress over invoking the Fifth Amendment in a hearing on Covid-19. Follow live updates.
House Oversight Chairman James Comer, a Republican from Kentucky, told CNN that he is "very confident" the Justice Department will have no choice but to reopen its Epstein investigation after his committee sends prosecutors a "to-do list" later this year.
But interviews with more than a dozen lawmakers and sources involved with the probe paint a much more complicated picture.
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The British government has cleared Paramount Skydance’s $110 billion takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery, saying it had received assurances, after earlier citing concerns over the deal’s potential to limit media diversity.
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Three people have been charged with threatening a judge, a witness and local officials connected to the investigation into the death of Nolan Wells, an 18-year-old found dead after a July Fourth boat trip with friends to an island off Mississippi's Gulf Coast.
None of the three appear to know Wells, his family or the boating group, or be part of the investigation.
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Fire crews in Washington state working tirelessly to contain destructive blazes in the Spokane area are preparing for a new bout of flame-fueling winds and intense heat that will arrive on Friday and continue through the weekend.
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The smarter artificial intelligence gets, the harder it will be for humanity to control it, according to Geoffrey Hinton, the Nobel Prize-winning computer scientist known as the "godfather of AI."
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Across Asia, thousands of first-time investors have recently piled in to stock markets, hoping to cash in on the massive tech boom that boosted indexes in Taiwan, South Korea and Japan to record highs earlier this year.
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The sons of the imprisoned former leader of Pakistan Imran Khan told CNN they fear for their father's health, claiming authorities in the South Asian country are preventing them from seeing him.
Pakistan's government said it "categorically rejects" the claim that Khan has faced a communication blackout or been denied access to his family, lawyers and doctors. Read more:
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The Trump administration's plan for the US Navy to build its largest battleships since World War II comes with a whopping price tag of $275 billion, and US shipyards may not have the capacity to build them, a new report from the Congressional Budget Office says.
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A Senate subcommittee investigating Dr. Anthony Fauci has obtained a copy of his iPhone, a spokesperson for the panel's chair, GOP Sen. Ron Johnson, told CNN on Wednesday.
The Department of Health and Human Services provided the phone to Johnson's panel, the Senate Homeland Security Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, ahead of a planned vote to hold the retired scientist in contempt of Congress for refusing to testify at a hearing last week.
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The US Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday approved the United States' first mRNA-based flu vaccine for adults 50 and older, drugmaker Moderna said.
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Speaking with CNN's @kaitlancollins, Abdul El-Sayed, who defeated Rep. Haley Stevens in Michigan's marquee Democratic primary for US Senate, responded to attacks from President Trump.
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Abdul El-Sayed, the winner of the Democratic primary in Michigan for the US Senate, talks with CNN’s @kaitlancollins about why he doesn’t believe the US should fund either offensive or defensive weapons to Israel.
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For travelers, Burlington, Vermont, presents a chance for an urban escape that still offers easy access to nature and a small-town experience. Tapping into the small-city spirit is a great way to kick off a visit to the close-knit community, where civic engagement runs deep.
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Add Meta to the list of companies with AI agents going rogue. An AI model from the parent company of Facebook and Instagram hacked into another company’s systems during cybersecurity testing, a spokesperson confirmed.
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