U.S. stocks slipped further from their record heights after rising oil prices cranked up the pressure on inflation and financial markets
August 17, 2026
U.S. stocks ended down on Monday and the dollar hit a two-month low against the euro as soft U.S. economic data, including an unexpected drop in retail
August 17, 2026
Iran will shift to a "fully offensive" military posture because efforts to negotiate a permanent end to the war with the U.S
August 17, 2026
Feds halt controversial work on border security inside Big Bend National Park
August 18, 2026
A marathon meeting between U.S. negotiator Jared Kushner and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu left the fate of the Gaza ceasefire unclear
August 17, 2026
Iran says it's working to finalize a joint statement with Oman on a plan to manage shipping through the Strait of Hormuz
August 17, 2026
The Justice Department has finalized a rule that will pave the way for people who’ve been barred from owning firearms because of criminal convictions to apply to have their gun rights reinstated
August 18, 2026
Major League Baseball’s team owners unanimously have approved the sale of the San Diego Padres to an investor group led by private equity billionaire José E
August 18, 2026
The death of a young man with hemophilia days after his arrest has sparked outrage in Syria
August 17, 2026
‘Brazen act of self-dealing.’ Lawmakers, watchdogs alarmed after Trump regulators let Trump firm start a bank
August 18, 2026
Top Russian economist replaced after warning of economic costs of Ukraine war
August 17, 2026
Lindsay Clancy’s mother says daughter thought medication was ‘destroying her mind’ as defense begins case in murder trial
August 17, 2026
Britain’s Princess Eugenie has named her first daughter Adelaide Elizabeth Annina
August 17, 2026
A court in Russia has convicted a prominent opposition politician for speaking out against the war in Ukraine and sentenced him to 11 years and a month in prison in the latest crackdown on dissent ahead of next month’s parliamentary election
August 17, 2026
Belgium is battling one of its largest wildfires, despite cooler weather and rain
August 17, 2026
Brazil's Finance Minister Dario Durigan said on Monday that the country faces a "painful final mile" of fiscal reforms to address high interest rates, rising public debt
August 17, 2026
Mexican banking affiliates of Bank of America, Banco Santander, BBVA, Citigroup, Deutsche Bank and HSBC agreed to pay $86.4 million to settle a long-running antitrust
August 17, 2026
A senior member of Russia's liberal Yabloko party was sentenced on Monday to 11 years and one month in a penal colony for condemning the war in Ukraine,
August 17, 2026
The NAACP announced on Monday it had joined the legal team representing the family of Nolan Wells, an 18-year-old Black teen whose body
August 17, 2026
Chrysler-parent Stellantis said on Monday it is recalling 955,000 vehicles worldwide because radio software may prevent rear-view cameras from
August 17, 2026
Iran will escalate tensions in the Strait of Hormuz and beyond, and launch an attack if the U.S. fails to implement an interim peace deal fully in a matter
August 17, 2026
The S&P 500 opened subdued on Monday as markets weighed the prospect of renewed tensions between the U.S. and Iran, while the report of a strong revenue forecast from AI lab
August 17, 2026
Apple will change rules governing how app developers can use personal data for targeted advertising on iPhones and iPads, Germany's competition authority said
August 17, 2026
Thousands of people on Indonesia’s Flores Island are still waiting for aid after a powerful magnitude 7.7 earthquake killed at least 68 people, injured more than 200 and damaged more than 4,500 homes
August 17, 2026
Rain over eastern Belgium on Monday brought some relief to firefighters battling to
August 17, 2026
Zambia's President Hakainde Hichilema was re-elected for a second term, but the opposition leader put in an unexpectedly strong showing, capitalising on
August 17, 2026
Oil prices settled up by more than $2 on Monday on global supply worries stoked by investor pessimism about diplomatic efforts to resolve the Iran war
August 17, 2026
Ukraine’s state energy company says Russia has attacked its facilities 13 times over the past week, with nearly 300 attacks this year
August 17, 2026
Spain’s World Cup-winning captain Rodri has arrive in Barcelona to seal his transfer from Manchester City to the Catalan club
August 17, 2026
China's Premier Li Qiang on Monday called for efforts to stabilise external demand and expand international trade cooperation, as weak domestic demand weighs on growth and
August 17, 2026
What matters in U.S. and global markets today By Mike Dolan, Editor-at-Large, Finance and Markets A relatively quiet week ahead kicks off today in the shadow of the
August 17, 2026
As the earth shook around her, tearing apart homes, buildings, and bridges in eastern Indonesia, Maria Florida Nogo Kelen was giving birth to
August 17, 2026
Zambian police arrested several leading opposition figures on the night of national elections last week, accusing them of posing a threat to state security, the government
August 17, 2026
Iran said on Monday that two French embassy employees involved in a diplomatic dispute last month would not be allowed to return to Iran.
August 17, 2026
A market correction to tech stock exuberance in the U.S. is likely and could have far-reaching consequences due to limits in fiscal and monetary policy buffers to blunt
August 17, 2026
Iraq's plans to export oil via a pipeline through Syria to avert future disruptions in the Strait of Hormuz
August 17, 2026
Loaves of sourdough bread now fill the display window of Suchart and Friends Gun, a firearms shop-turned-bakery in Bangkok's
August 17, 2026
German drone maker Helsing has enlisted Japanese e-commerce and finance firm Rakuten to help finalise a deal to sell its unmanned systems to Japan's army, a
August 17, 2026
The American League playoff race is heating up with seven teams vying for the final wild-card spot, all with records below
August 17, 2026
Tracking oil prices and US gas prices amid Iran conflict
March 09, 2026
British PM Andy Burnham exchanged messages with someone impersonating Trump’s chief of staff
August 17, 2026
European shares settled lower for a fourth straight session on Monday, as the earnings-fuelled rally cooled and the continuing stand-off
August 17, 2026
British Prime Minister Andy Burnham has reportedly exchanged messages with an impostor posing as U.S. President Donald Trump's chief of staff
August 17, 2026
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party will choose its candidates to fight in October elections on Monday, with analysts saying a shift further to
August 17, 2026
Exclusive: Ukraine reveals its Achilles’ heel to CNN as Patriot missile launchers run dry
August 17, 2026
The number of people worth more than $100 million whom President Donald Trump has appointed to his administration is more than four times the combined total of the three previous presidents
August 17, 2026
Canada's annual inflation rate accelerated to 3% in July, slightly more than expected, as renewed United States-Iran tensions drove gasoline prices,
August 17, 2026
Brazil's economy expanded just 0.2% in the second quarter from the previous three-month period, a central bank indicator showed on Monday, signaling a loss of momentum
August 17, 2026
Somali federal troops drove opposition forces out of one of the country's biggest cities, Baidoa, on Monday, following heavy clashes that left many people dead, residents
August 17, 2026
U.S. federal prosecutors looking into billionaire Mark Walter's empire are focused on four businesses that served as intermediaries between insurance companies he controlled, the
August 17, 2026
The U.S. military, scrambling to rebuild depleted stocks of high-tech weaponry, on Monday said it had awarded RTX unit Raytheon a $22.9 billion contract to dramatically
August 17, 2026
Khalil Al-Hayya, the Hamas chief who met U.S. envoy Jared Kushner,
August 17, 2026
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva holds a tight lead over Senator Flavio Bolsonaro, his main right-wing challenger, in a potential runoff ahead of October's
August 17, 2026
Alaska voters will narrow down a long list of contenders for a competitive U.S. Senate seat that’s expected to play a pivotal role in determining which party will hold a majority in the chamber next year
August 17, 2026
Russia and Ukraine have stepped up their aerial war. Civilians are paying the price
August 09, 2026
Trump says US will reduce joint military exercises with key ally South Korea
August 17, 2026
Cristiano Ronaldo hints at retirement: ‘Probably my last year of football’
August 17, 2026
South Korea has expressed hopes for resumption of diplomacy between the U.S. and North Korea to ease animosities on the Korean Peninsula
August 17, 2026
Bay Area asylum-seeker returns home after nearly a month in ICE detention
August 17, 2026
Torrential rains have pounded southern South Korea, leaving one person dead and four others injured
August 17, 2026
Less than an hour off the coast of the Turkish Riviera lies Suluada - a remote island so strikingly white and blue it’s earned the nickname “the Turkish Maldives.” Accessible only by boat and completely untouched, CNN's Leroy Ah Ben explores this hidden-gem that only locals know of.
August 15, 2026
Construction workers strike gold at work – literally
August 17, 2026
US Navy destroyer spent four days without power last month in South China Sea
August 17, 2026
The 60-day deadline for an agreement to end the Iran war and resolve the dispute over its nuclear program is expiring
August 17, 2026
Myanmar junta chief-turned-president Min Aung Hlaing left for Russia on Monday for his first official visit to the country since he assumed the presidency in April, according to
August 17, 2026
China's new home prices were stagnant in July, underscoring the challenges for a broad recovery of the housing sector as demand remained subdued.
August 17, 2026
Taiwan is determined to strengthen its defences and plans record defence spending next year, President Lai Ching-te said on Monday, describing his
August 17, 2026
China's economy lost momentum at the start of the second half, with industrial output and retail sales slowing as extreme weather disruptions and persistently weak domestic
August 17, 2026
China's industrial output in July grew 4.5% from a year earlier, slowing from 5.3% growth in June, data released by the National Bureau of Statistics showed on Monday.
August 17, 2026
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August 17, 2026
Xi says China needs ‘indomitable fighting spirit,’ praises Tiananmen crackdown
August 17, 2026
War, tariffs and AI gyrations have done little to dent the flow of cash into emerging markets, as reforms, deeper local capital markets
August 17, 2026
Binance last year handed Russian authorities details of cryptocurrency donations to Ukrainian fundraising campaigns that were used as evidence to bring
August 17, 2026
Top Chinese officials led by President Xi Jinping gathered in the Great Hall of the People on Monday to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the birth of late leader Jiang
August 17, 2026
The Trump administration says it is seeking to expand its lethal campaign of bombing boats off Latin America’s Caribbean and Pacific coasts onto land
August 17, 2026
U.S.
August 17, 2026
Search teams worked through the rubble of collapsed buildings in western Colombia on Sunday, nearly a week after a powerful earthquake devastated cities
August 16, 2026
Myanmar's military-backed government has verified that nearly 309,000 displaced people in camps in
August 17, 2026
A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Tom Westbrook The indomitable U.S. consumer may finally have taken a beat, and Friday's figures showing the first fall in
August 17, 2026
Vietnam wants to bring its sex ratio at birth down to the natural level of about 106 boys for every 100 girls by 2035, according to a draft plan from the Ministry of Health
August 17, 2026
Japan's economy slowed in the second quarter and missed market forecasts on softer household and business spending, highlighting the
August 17, 2026
A landslide in South Korea killed one person and injured three, media reports said on Monday, as heavy rainfall lashed the country's southern region.
August 17, 2026
Day after day over recent weeks, Ukrainian drones have pummeled giant depots belonging to Wildberries, the country’s biggest online retailer, burning estimated billions of dollars’ worth of merchandise and bringing the war home to the broad public
August 17, 2026
The debate over Jason Arday’s life continues – just as viciously – despite his death at 41
August 16, 2026
The Philippine central bank governor said on Monday that inflation is expected to ease gradually over the medium term even as risks to consumer prices remain on the upside.
August 17, 2026
The European Union intends to significantly expand sanctions against Russia in the coming months over its war in Ukraine, the bloc's foreign policy chief, Kaja
August 17, 2026
More than 180,000 utility customers remained without power across Hawaii on Sunday afternoon after Hurricane Lala brushed the Big Island before
August 16, 2026
Japan’s economy grew an annualized rate of 1.1% in the April-June quarter, even as private consumption stayed flat and the growth of exports declined
August 17, 2026
It’s not all about short-legged speed when 150 corgis gather for an international race celebrating the little dogs
August 16, 2026
Firefighters are battling wildfires in Belgium and Greece, with a massive blaze scorching a nature reserve in eastern Belgium
August 16, 2026
Japan's economy expanded an annualised 1.1% in the April-June quarter, government data showed on Monday, compared with a median market forecast for a 2.0% increase.
August 17, 2026
Shipping through the Strait of Hormuz slowed over the weekend, data showed on Monday, following attacks on tankers, while U.S.-Iran talks to resolve the
August 17, 2026
Authorities have lifted a U.S. security alert that halted avocado exports from Michoacán, Mexico's main avocado-producing state
August 16, 2026
President Donald Trump has ordered the Pentagon to scale back annual joint military exercises with South Korea
August 17, 2026
Irish athletes at the European championships in Birmingham, England, say they feel like they're competing at home
August 16, 2026
New Zealand's a2 Milk forecast weak annual earnings on Monday after missing market expectations for fiscal year 2026 due to supply-chain disruption in its China-label business,
August 17, 2026
Hurricane Lala has weakened to a tropical storm after raking Hawaii without making landfall
August 16, 2026
Indiana public safety officials say at least seven people have died during days of heavy rain and historic flooding in the state
August 16, 2026
The water level at Lake Powell has fallen to a record low in another sign of crisis along the Colorado River
August 17, 2026
Cameroon has finally won the Women’s Africa Cup of Nations with a 3-0 victory over tournament debutant Malawi
August 17, 2026
Iga Swiatek overcame a short turnaround after winning the title in Toronto on Thursday to defeat Colombian Emiliana Arango, 6-3, 6-0, on center court at the Cincinnati Open on Sunday
August 17, 2026
Midwest flooding begins to ease, but one more round of storms is on the way
August 14, 2026
The leader of U.S.
August 17, 2026
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August 17, 2026
Amy Hunt has won a record fourth gold medal in a single edition of the European championships after Britain clinched victory in the mixed 4x100 relay
August 16, 2026
U.S. negotiator Jared Kushner has held a rare meeting with the Hamas chief in Egypt in a push to make progress on the stalled Gaza ceasefire
August 16, 2026
Spain’s World Cup-winning captain Rodri appears to be heading back home after Manchester City and Barcelona reached an agreement over the midfielder’s move
August 17, 2026
Authorities in Zimbabwe continue searching for bodies after an overloaded ferry capsized on Lake Kariba last week, killing more than 80 people
August 17, 2026
The U.S. government has discussed new sanctions against Brazilian Supreme Court judge Alexandre de Moraes, the Financial Times reported on Sunday, citing people familiar with the
August 16, 2026
Retired flight attendant begins final "Paulie's Push" to honor 9/11 victims, "I made a promise"
August 17, 2026
Moroccan security forces have arrested hundreds of migrants trying to reach the Spanish enclave of Ceuta by land and sea
August 17, 2026
Ukraine has launched hundreds of drones across Russia, killing at least six people in one of Kyiv’s largest aerial attacks of the war
August 16, 2026
The top U.S. military commander in the Middle East has visited the long-deployed USS Lincoln in the Arabian Sea
August 16, 2026
Donald Trump's envoys met with Egyptian, Qatari and Turkish mediators in Cairo on Sunday, a diplomatic source said, aiming to advance the U.S.
August 16, 2026
Thieves have stolen four works attributed to Sicilian Renaissance painter Antonello da Messina from a regional museum in the city of Messina in Sicily
August 16, 2026
The United States successfully defends the men’s title at the flag football world championships but loses the women’s title to Canada
August 16, 2026
Police in Kentucky say one person has died and four others were injured in a shooting at a park
August 16, 2026
Brazil's presidential candidates have kicked off their campaigns ahead of what is expected to be tight election in October
August 16, 2026
Enzo Maresca has endured a nightmarish first competitive match in charge of Manchester City as Arsenal scored inside 24 seconds before powering to a 3-0 victory in the Community Shield
August 16, 2026
Washington Commanders backup quarterback Marcus Mariota has a sprained medial collateral ligament in his right knee, coach Dan Quinn confirmed
August 16, 2026
Colombia's President Abelardo de la Espriella has asked U.S. President Donald Trump to suspend tariffs to help Colombia recover from a devastating earthquake
August 16, 2026
Hundreds of migrants who recently entered Spain's North African enclave of Ceuta staged a protest on a popular urban beach on
August 16, 2026
Zambia's President Hakainde Hichilema was well ahead in counting for national elections on Sunday with nearly half the constituencies declared, the electoral commission said
August 16, 2026
An elderly couple died and several other people were injured on Sunday as fast-moving wildfires swept through the Greek island of Salamina west of Athens on the biggest
August 16, 2026
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva launched his final reelection campaign on Sunday from a
August 16, 2026
Cambodian artist Bou Meng, one of only seven people known to have survived a notorious Khmer Rouge torture center, has died at 85
August 16, 2026
Police have made one arrest after a security incident caused transportation delays for fans and athletes leaving Alexander Stadium following Saturday night’s session at the European track-and-field championships in Birmingham, England
August 16, 2026
The BBC has asked a U.S. court for help getting documents and testimony from U.S. President Donald Trump's family in connection to his $10 billion defamation lawsuit against the broadcaster
August 16, 2026
Bangladesh signalled on Sunday it wants a more favourable diplomatic environment before it can agree to a top-level visit to India, as Dhaka presses New Delhi to extradite
August 16, 2026
‘Uncharted territory’: Second-largest reservoir in US plunges to a record low
August 16, 2026
Man who official says has past mental health issues faces hate crime charges after disrupting service at Manhattan synagogue
August 15, 2026
An extremist official in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's cabinet has advocated for killing “30 to 40” people in Gaza each night
August 16, 2026
Pope Leo called on Sunday for an end to violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, amid a surge of attacks by militant settlers and a siege in
August 16, 2026
Around 5,000 people have been evacuated after a magnitude-7.7 earthquake rocked eastern Indonesia, killing at least 53, blocking roads and
August 16, 2026
A dozen people were killed and at least 10 seriously
August 16, 2026
Nearly 10 years after a Florida teen vanished in the middle of the night, detectives turn to psychics for help
August 16, 2026
JD Vance and the Trump team keep moving the goalposts on Iran
August 16, 2026
1 dead, thousands without power as Tropical Storm Lala lashes Hawaii
August 16, 2026
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August 16, 2026
Search for survivors continues after powerful earthquake kills dozens in Indonesia
August 15, 2026
Firefighters battled with the aid of Dutch helicopters on Sunday to contain Belgium's biggest wildfire, which has already
August 16, 2026
Thieves stole four artworks by 15th century painter Antonello da Messina from a museum in his Sicilian hometown, a loss to the island's
August 16, 2026
Russia carried out a wave of airstrikes on Ukraine overnight, killing two people at a steel plant, and Kyiv launched a heavy drone attack on the
August 16, 2026
Benjamin Franklin's son William was buried in London following his death in 1813, more than three decades after he was forced to leave America
August 16, 2026
What the death sentence for former Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad tells us about the future of the country
August 16, 2026
Ukrainian drones struck Moscow region overnight on Sunday in what the provincial governor said was one of the largest attacks to have targeted the region, and which he said
August 16, 2026
India's tax amnesty scheme for small taxpayers to declare certain undeclared foreign assets of up to 50 million rupees ($523,889) opens on Sunday and will be available
August 16, 2026
A magnitude-7.7 earthquake that struck eastern Indonesia on Saturday has killed at least 51 people, with rescue operations ongoing.
August 16, 2026
German companies slashed investments in the United States to a three-year low in the first half of 2026, as Trump administration policies fed uncertainty
August 16, 2026
Police say a passenger bus traveling on a highway in Hungary early Sunday went off the road and into a ditch where it overturned, killing 12 and injuring others
August 16, 2026
For more than a century, cafes in the Italian city of Padua have welcomed customers for an early evening drink, or
August 16, 2026
South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said on Sunday that warning shots had been fired when North Korean soldiers violated the military demarcation line between the
August 16, 2026
An F-18 fighter on a NATO air policing mission shot down a drone that illegally breached Romanian national airspace, the fourth unmanned aircraft shot down over the
August 16, 2026
Hurricane Lala has skirted Hawaii’s Big Island without making landfall and is expected to weaken after lashing the region with strong winds and drenching rain
August 15, 2026
Athens’ iconic Panathenaic Stadium is undergoing its first systematic cleaning in more than a century
August 16, 2026
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un reaffirmed the deepening of ties with Russia in a message to President Vladimir Putin as Pyongyang marked the anniversary of
August 16, 2026
Rescue teams are searching through rubble and landslide debris, a day after a magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck off Flores island in eastern Indonesia
August 16, 2026
Australia's New South Wales state will start a gun buyback in November, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Sunday, part of the national response to a shooting spree
August 16, 2026
Palantir chair and co-founder Peter Thiel has bought a 1% stake in Argentina's Vista, one of the largest oil companies operating in the country's Vaca Muerta shale
August 16, 2026
Hurricane Lala approached Hawaii with strong winds and heavy rain on Saturday, leaving more than 40,000 utility customers without power across the state as the
August 16, 2026
Hopes of finding survivors of the earthquake that struck western Colombia five days ago were dwindling on Saturday, as more bodies were pulled from
August 16, 2026
Novak Djokovic’s stay at the Cincinnati Open was a short one
August 16, 2026
Powerful storms and floods have killed at least six people in Indiana, including a 4-year-old boy, state officials said on Saturday.
August 16, 2026
The Democratic National Committee on Saturday officially selected South Carolina as the first state to vote in the party's 2028 primaries.
August 16, 2026
Mysterious bomb-dropping drones sank their fishing boats, survivors say. Who was behind the attacks?
August 16, 2026
Authorities say a teenage boy and four adults were killed Friday in a series of Michigan shootings
August 16, 2026
Twenty-two more bodies have been recovered following a boat accident in a lake in Zimbabwe, police said on Saturday, taking the death toll to 68.
August 15, 2026
Iran says Qatar is holding three of its pilots who were reportedly captured when their jets were downed early in the war, but Qatar denies the allegations
August 15, 2026
Yankees outfielder Aaron Judge played catch in New York on Friday as he continues working toward a return from a broken right rib
August 16, 2026
Kate Douglass has lowered her own world record in the women's 50-meter freestyle for the second time in the same day
August 16, 2026
Families on the outskirts of Qusra, the West Bank village where Palestinian homes have been under siege for nearly a week, said they have faced sometimes
August 15, 2026
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August 14, 2026
Moroccan police arrested at least 111 people on Saturday as they tried to enter Spain's North African enclave of Ceuta,
August 15, 2026
Yemen's Mocha port has suspended commercial and maritime operations after being hit by more than 25 missiles in Houthi attacks over recent days, the port's director said on Saturday
August 15, 2026
Journey prepares for the last leg of what could be rockers' final tour together
Pentagon orders audit of 30 universities' partnerships with foreign institutions
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National Symphony Orchestra will play at 6 DC-area venues next season as Kennedy Center shuts
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