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ISIS has claimed responsibility for an attack on a gas plant in Baghdad Sunday that killed five police officers, authorities told CNN. Another 13 people were injured in the attack, which occurred in the Taji area of Iraq’s capital. The assault began with a suicide bombing at the entrance of the plant, according to Iraqi […]

I have lived a life haunted by guilt. In 1966, I was one of Chairman Mao Zedong’s Red Guards. Myself and millions of other middle and high school students started denouncing our teachers, friends, families and raiding homes and destroying other people’s possessions. Textbooks explain the Cultural Revolution — in which hundreds of thousands of […]

An air search for a missing cruise ship passenger who had gone overboard in the Gulf of Mexico was suspended overnight Saturday, the U.S. Coast Guard said. The plan is to resume the search “at first light Sunday,” according to the Coast Guard. Samantha Broberg, 33, was reported missing from the Carnival Liberty cruise ship […]

A crash involving a bus and an SUV sent 11 people to hospitals Saturday, CNN affiliate WESH in Orlando, Florida, reported. The vehicles caught fire, video posted on WESH showed. Eight of the 16 people on the bus and three people, including one child, from the SUV were taken away by ambulance, the Florida Highway […]

House Speaker Paul Ryan on Saturday offered praise — but still no endorsement — for presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump and said congressional GOP staffers will meet with aides to the billionaire next week to discuss policy. The speaker’s comments come as the Republican Party tries to unify following a divisive primary fight and fears […]

Mark Cuban says he was recruited to run for president against Donald Trump, but he believes “it’s too late” to enter the race. “It would have been fun to run against Donald,” Cuban said — in the past tense — in an email to CNNMoney. The billionaire owner of the NBA’s Dallas Mavericks and co-star […]

Jamala of Ukraine on Sunday won the immensely popular Eurovision Song Contest with a somber, controversial tune that evokes Moscow’s deportation of members of her Crimean ethnic group during World War II. She sang “1944,” a song about the deportation of Crimean Tatars by the Soviet Union on orders of Josef Stalin. Her performance also […]

The pilot was killed Saturday afternoon when a biplane crashed during an air show at a metropolitan Atlanta airport, authorities said. The biplane and another aircraft were performing stunts in tandem during the next-to-last performance of the day at the Good Neighbor Day Open House Airshow at DeKalb Peachtree Airport, said CNN Digital news writer […]

Eight people were killed and 44 were hospitalized Saturday after a charter bus left a south Texas highway and rolled over. State Department of Public Safety spokesman Conrad Hein said the bus left Highway 83 in Webb County after the driver apparently lost control. The driver is believed to be among the injured, Hein said. […]

Jamala of Ukraine on Sunday won the Eurovision Song Contest, the annual competition that pits singers from primarily European countries against each other, hosted this year by Stockholm, Sweden. She sang “1944,” a song about the deportation of Crimean Tatars by the Soviet Union on orders of Josef Stalin. Eurovision officials ruled the song didn’t […]

The Obama administration’s directive on the use of school bathrooms by transgender students has provoked a torrent of criticism. It also marks a new front in America’s long-running culture wars. The latest battle over transgender rights and sexual identity comes in response to a joint letter Friday from the Departments of Education and Justice directing […]

His talents were as versatile as the classic comic book characters he brought to life. Darwyn Cooke, celebrated artist, graphic designer, writer and animator, died Saturday at 53, his wife, Marsha, said. The Canadian-born artist died at his home in Florida following a battle with cancer. “We read all of your messages of support to […]

One person — the pilot — was killed Saturday afternoon when a biplane crashed during an air show at a metropolitan Atlanta airport, DeKalb County public information officer Shiera Campbell said. The biplane and another aircraft were performing stunts in tandem during the next-to-last performance of the day at the Good Neighbor Day Open House […]

Ted Cruz on Saturday vowed to attendees at the Texas Republican convention here that he will continue fighting for conservative values — but he notably avoided weighing in on the 2016 race. In his first speech since ending his presidential bid earlier this month, the Texas senator didn’t mention presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump, instead […]

Homicides across dozens of U.S. cities spiked by 9% over the first three months of 2016 compared to the same period last year, a new report has found. The report, issued by the Major Cities Chiefs Association on Friday, analyzed crime reported by 63 municipal and county departments from more than 50 cities and metropolitan […]