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WASHINGTON — (CNN) Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert has hired a top white-collar crime defense attorney to defend him against federal charges that he tried to hide hush money payments and lie...

NORTH CHARLESTON (CNN) — South Carolina prosecutor Scarlett Wilson said Monday that a grand jury has indicted former North Charleston police officer Michael Slager on a murder charge. Slager is ...

HUBEI PROVINCE, CHINA — (CNN) Their hopes have long faded, their prayers gone unanswered. Still, they wait by the banks of the Yangtze River, lighting candles and calling out the names of their ...

Baghdad, Iraq (CNN)Tariq Aziz, the imprisoned former Saddam Hussein lieutenant who served as a public face of the Iraqi dictator’s government until the regime was toppled in 2003, died Friday of...

Welcome to the real world, Barbie. Fans of the doll will eventually pick from 23 Barbies with different eye colors, hair colors, skin tones, face shapes and hair styles, according to Mattel. Though sh...

WASHINGTON–(CNN)– Jeb Bush is Europe bound. High on the travel agenda: steering clear of the pesky foreign quagmires that have engulfed his GOP brethren on recent trips abroad.The former F...

Douglas RushkoffCNNEditor’s note: Douglas Rushkoff writes a regular column for CNN.com. He is a media theorist, the author of the book “Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now” an...

BALTIMORE — (CNN) Police Commissioner Anthony Batts is asking for federal help to fight uptick in crime in his city — an increase he largely attributes to looted drugs that have made their...

WASHINGTON — (CNN) If things had gone differently in the 2012 presidential election, Paul Ryan would be vice president right now.Instead, he’s allied with the President he tried to defeat....

KUALA LUMPUR — (CNN) About 160 climbers were stranded on Mount Kinabalu, one of Southeast Asia’s highest mountains, after a powerful quake hit the area in eastern Borneo.“They could ...