Millions of Australian children just lost access to social media. What’s happening and will it work?

Children across Australia woke up on Wednesday with no access to their social media accounts under a world-first ban designed ...

I streamed on the $40 Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K Select for a week, but should you?

Our electronics writer has tested every streaming device on the market, and spent a week with Amazon’s new $40 stick to see if it’s worth it.

Quilen Blackwell, whose nonprofit ‘farm-to-vase’ flower shop employs at-risk youth, is CNN’s Hero of the Year

Quilen Blackwell, whose nonprofit transforms vacant lots on Chicago’s South Side into flower farms that employ at-risk young people to grow, arrange and sell the flowers, is the 2025 CNN Hero of the ...

‘You won’t understand unless you chew on it’: Hideo Kojima wants you to remember his games for decades

With narrative storytelling, multimillion-dollar budgets and A-list casts, Hideo Kojima’s arthouse games — including the critically acclaimed “Metal Gear Solid” and “Death Stranding” franchises — are ...
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This year’s Miss Universe debacle shows how beauty pageants turned ugly

Amid resignations and vote-rigging claims, Miss Universe — and pageantry at large — is fighting for relevance.

With immigration paused, Afghans in the US and abroad urgently seek options after the National Guard attack

Wahidi helps run Afghan Hope Community Development, a volunteer-led nonprofit that assists Afghan refugees and families in the Sacramento, California, area. They’ve helped more than 5,000 Afghan ...

What happens inside a command center during a military strike?

The controversy over who gave the order for a second strike that apparently killed people clinging to an alleged drug trafficking boat in the Caribbean has raised important questions about how and ...

Trump enters Warner Bros. fight, says it’s ‘imperative that CNN be sold’

President Donald Trump inserted himself directly into the battle for control of Warner Bros. Discovery on Wednesday, saying, ...

What we know – and don’t know – about the immigration crackdown expected in New Orleans this week

As Department of Homeland Security agents are expected to surge into New Orleans this week, the latest Democrat-led city targeted by a federal immigration enforcement crackdown, a common thread has ...

How Trump’s AI push, energy prices and angry neighbors are colliding in the Arizona desert

The city of Chandler has spent years wrestling with the question of whether to build more data centers, just as communities around the country debate the economic and environmental tradeoffs of these ...

When the feds come to town: In cities targeted by Trump’s immigration crackdown, a shared playbook emerges

As Chad Curry busily ferries his teenage children through the streets of their Chicago neighborhood of West Ridge, he eyes passing vehicles with a skepticism he didn’t have just a few months ago.

His car broke down on Thanksgiving 1980 and he entered an empty house. Then the occupants came home

When John Morris’ car skidded off the road in a blizzard, he had to think on his feet. It turned into a Thanksgiving he’d never forget.