Rand, whose family can trace its roots back to the 1700s, is a Democratic state senator in North Carolina. Until he watched the 2008 CNN documentary "Black in America," he had no idea that some of his ...

Bianna Golodryga speaks to Raymond Zhong, climate and environment reporter for The New York Times, about his experience learning to scuba dive to enhance his reporting and get closer to the story.

Prince Harry jokingly apologized to Canada on Thursday for wearing a Los Angeles Dodgers baseball cap when he watched the team take on the Toronto Blue Jays during the World Series.

The well-planned but indiscriminate attacks targeted two luxury hotels, a Jewish center and the Victoria Terminus train station, where the boy's parents, uncle and three cousins waited to board. The ...

Presidential nominees irk Black Baptist convention. LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The National Baptist Convention, one of the nation's oldest black religious groups, Wednesday launched ...

Inflammation appears to do a number on human heart. NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (CNN) -- Doctors are talking more and more about evidence that inflammation has a direct link to heart d ...

Barack Obama and John McCain were restrained by silly rules designed to crush any legitimate exchanges between the two men (no doubt lawyered to death by their own campaigns and approved by the ...

President Clinton Tuesday pardoned a former U.S. ambassador who pleaded guilty in a Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) scandal under former President Ronald Reagan. The Justice ...

Despite recent economic jitters exacerbated by the threat of terrorism, early figures from the key Thanksgiving shopping weekend provide "encouraging news" about the recovery of the American economy, ...

Tesla shareholders approved a pay package on Thursday that could make CEO Elon Musk, already the world’s richest person, the world’s first trillionaire.

The wives of a missing Malaysian Christian pastor and a Muslim activist won a landmark lawsuit after a court ruled the government and police were responsible for the men’s enforced disappearances ...

Polish Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski and U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice signed the deal and hailed it as a breakthrough in international cooperation. They said the mis ...