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NEW YORK — North Korea’s foreign minister has delivered a scornful response to US President Donald Trump’s threat to destroy the hermit kingdom, likening it to the sound of “a ...

SAN JUAN — Puerto Rico’s energy grid took such a severe blow from deadly Hurricane Maria that restoring power to everyone may take months, Gov. Ricardo Rossell told CNN on Wednesday night....

WASHINGTON — (CNN) The Federal Reserve is leaving interest rates alone to give the economy room to keep growing.But the central bank did take historic action on Wednesday: It will begin undoing ...

NEW ORLEANs –(CNN) Travelers who rely on TripAdvisor have named the National WWII Museum as the No. 2 museum in both the world and the nation. According to a press release from the museum, the r...

MEXICO — (CNN) — Emergency crews have found 21 children and four adults dead in the rubble of an elementary school that collapsed during the earthquake in Mexico City, Luis Felipe Puente, ...

WASHINGTON — (CNN) President Donald Trump on Wednesday blamed his former campaign rival, Hillary Clinton, and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, for the North Korean nuclear crisis. ...

WASHINGTON — (CNN) As peaceful protests gave way to violence in St. Louis over the weekend, a group of police officers were heard repeating a familiar chant. Whose streets? Our streets! Whose st...

GEORGIA — (CNN) Georgia Tech’s campus didn’t bear any scars Tuesday from a violent night that left a police vehicle torched and three people, at least one of them a student, in handc...

[Breaking news update at 6:54 a.m. ET]Hurricane Maria made landfall Wednesday morning as a strong Category 4 storm in southeast Puerto Rico, near the city of Yabucoa, the National Hurricane Center sai...

 NEW YORK — Tropical Storm Jose is losing strength, but marching on.The storm formerly known as Hurricane Jose is still lurking in the northeastern US coast, packing winds of 65 mph and the...