Canadian-Hungarian-British writer David Szalay won the Booker Prize for fiction on Monday for “Flesh,” the story of an ordinary man’s life over several decades in which what isn’t on the page is just ...

• NOW: The Senate has begun a series of votes that will end with a final vote to pass a compromise funding package to reopen the government. If approved, the House will have to return and adopt the ...

The families of six campers and two counselors who died in the catastrophic flooding that swept through Camp Mystic this summer are suing the Texas camp and its owners, accusing them of gross ...

Less than a year after his lightning power grab, Syria’s president Ahmed Al-Sharaa is capping his transformation from jihadist to global statesman in a historic visit to the White House that says as ...

CNN’s Jake Tapper sits down with Speaker Mike Johnson regarding his commitment to bipartisan cooperation on finding short-term solutions for escalating health care expenses.

Sen. Bernie Sanders won't say if Sen. Schumer should lose his job as Democratic Leader Independent Senator Bernie Sanders joins The Lead. Newsom says 2028 decision will come after the midterms. What ...

A day after two Major League Baseball pitchers were indicted for allegedly participating in a scheme to rig bets on MLB games, the league announced it has worked with partner sportsbooks to limit prop ...

It’s a tad early for 2026 predictions, but given how the past few weeks have gone for OpenAI, I’ll offer one of my own: OpenAI isn’t going public. Not in 2026, anyway. Maybe not ever.

British Muslim journalist Sami Hamdi is set to be released from US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody.

So much of the coverage of President Donald Trump’s pardons is focused on how political they are. And they are certainly political – extraordinarily so.

Two clashes between rival gangs in a southern Ecuadorian prison left at least 31 inmates dead on Sunday, including 27 who were killed by “asphyxiation,” officials said.

The Iraqi government says it can no longer work with Russian oil company Lukoil – which has a huge stake in the country’s oil fields – because of recently imposed US sanctions against the company.