CNN.com delivers up-to-the-minute news and information on the latest top stories, weather, entertainment, politics and more. Make sure your dentist does this | | The recent news in Tulsa, Oklahoma, brings to light an issue that is rare, but nonetheless important -- cross infection in the dental office, or the transfer of infection from one patient to another in a health care environment. |
Cops, suicide and a father's cause | | On the evening of December 3, 2008, John Francis Cahill, a police officer for 19 years, walked up a trail in California's Santa Cruz Mountains. He stopped, took out a .40-caliber Glock semi-automatic handgun and shot himself in the temple. He was 42 years old. He was the father of two daughters. He was my firstborn son. |
Mandela responds to pneumonia care | | Former South African President Nelson Mandela is breathing without difficulty in a hospital, where he is responding to treatment for pneumonia, his spokesman said Saturday. |
Gay marriage hasn't won (yet...) | | If Rush Limbaugh says same-sex marriage is inevitable, it's inevitable. Here's what the conservative radio host had to say about the topic on a recent show: |
Rapist caught after 35 years on run | | Convicted serial rapist Gary Irving was offered a weekend of freedom by a judge in Massachusetts before reporting to jail. He took nearly 35 years. |
Rare TV appearance for Turin Shroud | | What may be the most famous religious relic of them all, the Turin Shroud, will make a rare appearance on Easter Saturday -- on Italians' TV screens. |
83 miners trapped in landslide | | Rescuers have yet to find any survivors or bodies Saturday after a landslide that buried 83 workers at a gold mine in the Tibet Autonomous Region, reported Xinhua, the Chinese state-run news agency. |
35 educators indicted over test cheating | | Among the educators facing corruption charges stemming from a cheating scandal is a former superintendent who was recognized nationally for turning around Atlanta's school system. |
35 indicted over test cheating | | Among the educators facing corruption charges stemming from a cheating scandal is a former superintendent who was recognized nationally for turning around Atlanta's school system. |
Stephen Baldwin owes $300K in taxes | | Actor Stephen Baldwin pleaded guilty to repeated failure to file income taxes for three years and will pay $300,000 in back taxes, his attorney Russell Yankwitt said Friday. |
School-cheating indictments | | In what has been described as one of the largest cheating scandals to hit the nation's public education system, 35 Atlanta Public Schools educators and administrators were indicted Friday on charges of racketeering and corruption. |
Online extortion | | The California man thought he put his past behind him, but then he became victim to an online scam associated more with the mafia than the Internet. |
Baby killed | | The investigation into the shooting of a baby in Brunswick, Georgia -- a crime that's grabbed national headlines -- has taken yet another turn with the arrest of a local politician. |
SEAL killed | | A Navy SEAL killed in a parachute training accident this week in Arizona belonged to the same elite squad that includes those chosen to go after Osama bin Laden in Pakistan two years ago, a source familiar with the matter said. |
North Korea | | North Korea's threatening rhetoric has reached a fevered pitch, but the Pentagon and the South Korean government have said it's nothing new. |
Why your Facebook feed went red | | You may have noticed something different about your friends' profile pictures as you scrolled through your Facebook feed this week. According to the social networking site, roughly 2.7 million users changed their profile image on Tuesday as the U.S. Supreme Court pondered the future of same-sex marriage in the United States. |
Why your Facebook feed went red | | You may have noticed something different about your friends' profile pictures as you scrolled through your Facebook feed this week. According to the social networking site, roughly 2.7 million users changed their profile image on Tuesday as the U.S. Supreme Court pondered the future of same-sex marriage in the United States. |
141 murder charges: Pleads not guilty | | Two men have pleaded not guilty to murder and other charges tied to the shooting death of a Chicago teenage girl, who days before had performed at a Washington brunch in the run-up to President Barack Obama's inauguration. |
Judge: 9/11 museum can keep cross | Friday, March 29, 2013 11:55 PM | |
| A New York judge has thrown out a lawsuit filed by a group of atheists, ruling that a pair of World Trade Center beams in the shape of a cross can be included in a memorial museum of the 9/11 terror attacks. |
Navy SEAL killed in training accident | Friday, March 29, 2013 8:45 PM | |
| A U.S. Navy SEAL was killed and another was injured in a training accident in Arizona, a U.S. Department of Defense official said Friday. |
Phony lawyer defended bin Laden | Friday, March 29, 2013 8:19 PM | |
| CNN's Atika Shubert reports on how the man who defended Saddam Hussein has been unmasked as a fake. |
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