| CNN.com delivers up-to-the-minute news and information on the latest top stories, weather, entertainment, politics and more. | Santa turns away autistic girl, dog | | One mall Santa might be getting some coal in his stocking this year: He and a helper elf turned away a 7-year-old girl with autism and her service dog, a pit bull. |
Surviving 15 feet
away from ISIS | | A female Kurdish fighter battles for what's left of Kobani and the honor of a friend who died rather than be captured by ISIS. "She blew herself up. She killed a lot of them." |
| Surviving 15 feet away from ISIS | | | A Kurdish female fighter battles for the scorched Earth of Kobani and the honor of a friend who died rather than be captured by ISIS. "She blew herself up. She killed a lot of them." |
| Cruz is thorn in GOP leaders' sides | | When Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas got out of his car at the Capitol on Wednesday, he did not to go into the Senate where he works. He was on the House side to join a conservative rally to press their own GOP leaders to use the power of the purse to fight the president on immigration. |
| Woman in custody may be ISIS leader's wife | | Who is Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi? Who is Saja al-Dulaimi, a woman who's been tied to the ISIS leader? And what would she be doing in Lebanon, now purportedly in custody of authorities there? |
| Syrian President: Airstrikes fail to deplete ISIS | | Syrian President Bashar al-Assad told a French magazine that "there haven't been any tangible" signs that U.S.-led airstrikes in his country have weakened ISIS, despite assertions Wednesday by America's top diplomat that "significant progress" has been made in derailing the Islamist extremist group. |
| Opinion: What led to choke hold death | | The tragic death of Eric Garner at the hands of the NYPD -- a fatal scuffle caught in all its horror in a video shot by a bystander -- is, in part, the product of a nationally recognized police strategy, "broken windows." It may have outlived its usefulness in many parts of New York. |
| Reuniting soldiers with stray dogs | | Pen Farthing, a former sergeant in the Royal Marines, is reuniting soldiers with the stray dogs they befriended while serving in Afghanistan. |
| NYPD to train on proper use of force | | Less than two months after 43-year-old Eric Garner died in a police chokehold, New York City Police Commissioner William Bratton announced that all NYPD officers will undergo a three-day retraining period on the proper use of force when engaging a suspect. |
| NYPD officer faces no charges | | A grand jury decided against an indictment in the death of an unarmed black man died after a white police officer put him in a chokehold. |
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