| CNN.com delivers up-to-the-minute news and information on the latest top stories, weather, entertainment, politics and more. | How two outsiders defeated France's political elite | | A political novice who has never before stood for elected office is facing off against a far-right nationalist from the fringes of French politics -- it's safe to say France's presidential election is one for the history books. |
| Farewell Kate O'Beirne of CNN's 'Capital Gang' | | The political world lost a legend this weekend. Kate O'Beirne, longtime Washington editor of National Review and longtime panelist on CNN's "Capital Gang" passed away Sunday of cancer. |
| US to North Korea: Stop provocation | | With tensions rising between the US and North Korea, the Pentagon on Sunday called for the isolated communist nation to avoid destabilizing the situation further. |
| Trump declares support for science | | President Donald Trump declared his support for the environment and scientific research on his first Earth Day in the White House amid harsh criticisms over his actions to roll back environmental regulations and proposed cuts to non-military spending, including at the Environmental Protection Agency. |
| Surgeon general resigns | | Surgeon General Vivek Murthy was asked to resign by the White House on Friday after assisting in the transition to the Trump administration. |
| Le Pen, Macron advance in French elections | | Sunday, April 23, 2017 11:49 PM | |
| Polls have closed in France's bitterly divisive presidential election. Early projections suggesting who may have made it through to the runoff are expected shortly. |
| Opinion: A hero in American Airlines incident | | Sunday, April 23, 2017 11:25 PM | |
| Video evidence has emerged of an American Airlines incident in which an unidentified male passenger confronts a male flight attendant, warning him "You do that to me, and I'll knock you flat." The flight attendant rushes right back at the passenger and responds with "Hit me. Bring it on." This chest-bumping came shortly after that same flight attendant apparently had a confrontation with a female passenger holding a baby and yanked a baby stroller away from her. |
| American detained in North Korea | | Sunday, April 23, 2017 9:46 PM | |
| A US citizen has been detained in North Korea, according to Martina Aberg, deputy head of mission for the Swedish Embassy in North Korea. |
| NYT: Trump relies on Hannity, Murdoch | | Sunday, April 23, 2017 9:17 PM | |
| The New York Times reports that President Trump seeks outside counsel from Fox News CEO Rupert Murdoch and host Sean Hannity. |
| N. Korea: We are ready to sink carrier | | Sunday, April 23, 2017 8:44 PM | |
| American aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson started joint drills with two Japanese destroyers in the western Pacific Ocean on Sunday, authorities said. |
| Opinion: What the French elections mean for Americans | | Sunday, April 23, 2017 7:58 PM | |
| The second round of the French elections was set seconds after the polls closed Sunday evening, pitting two of the most unconventional candidates for the presidency of a nation that prides itself on professionalism and continuity of its leaders. Emmanuel Macron, who heads no political party but rather a movement he launched less than a year ago, will go head-to-head against Marine Le Pen, leader of the far-right National Front, who has never held national office in France, but who represents her nation in the European Parliament, which she wants to dissolve. |
| Why Putin and Trump both like Le Pen | | Sunday, April 23, 2017 5:59 PM | |
| On one hand, Donald Trump's praise of France's far right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen, who appears to have received enough votes in Sunday's election to advance to the May 7 runoff, is not surprising. Le Pen, like Trump, ran a campaign that was anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim and traded on white supremacist themes. (It's no coincidence that former Klan leader David Duke has publicly praised both Le Pen and Trump.) |
| Poll: 2% say they regret voting for Trump | | Sunday, April 23, 2017 5:53 PM | |
| President Trump's approval rating is at a record low at 40% according to an NBC/Wall Street Journal poll, but 92% of voters say they do not regret voting for Trump, according to a new Washington Post/ABC poll. |
| A refugee ship and the Holocaust's start | | Sunday, April 23, 2017 5:03 PM | |
| Monday is Yom Hashoah, the day designated in 1953 by the State of Israel to commemorate the murder of millions of Jews during the Second World War. Selected to mark the anniversary of the 1943 Warsaw ghetto uprising, this day is meant to impart a lesson: Jews should be remembered not only for dying in the Holocaust, but for fighting for their lives as well. |
| Sanders backs anti-abortion candidate | | Sunday, April 23, 2017 4:45 PM | |
| Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders on Sunday stood by his decision to back a Democratic candidate whose record on abortion has drawn fire from many in the party. |
| Four-year-old falls out of moving bus | | Sunday, April 23, 2017 4:39 PM | |
| It's a scene that would make any parent shudder -- a 4-year-old girl tumbles out of the back of a moving bus in the middle of a busy highway. |
| Relieve the suffering people of Venezuela | | Sunday, April 23, 2017 9:47 AM | |
| Tens of thousands of Venezuelans who have reached a breaking point over the country's humanitarian and political crisis poured into the streets all over the country on Wednesday. They demanded that the government let aid enter Venezuela to help the many people who are desperate for food and medicine. They demanded that the government hold elections, free political prisoners, and reestablish judicial independence and the powers of the National Assembly. |
| Actress Erin Moran found dead | | Sunday, April 23, 2017 8:29 AM | |
| Actress Erin Moran, best known for her kid sister role in the '70s sitcom "Happy Days," has died. Authorities in Indiana found her body Saturday afternoon after getting a 911 call at 4:07 p.m. for "an unresponsive female," the Harrison County Sheriff's Department said. She was 56. |
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