Read CNN’s IRS Scandal Fast Facts and learn about the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) scandal involving the alleged targeting of certain groups.

A wounded child walks at a makeshift hospital in the rebel-held town of Douma after being injured in a reported airstrike by government forces on Tuesday, December 23. Douma, located near Damascus, ...

The North Korean government is fuming over the release of the “The Interview,” claiming President Barack Obama forced the film into theaters and onto streaming video services. “U.S. President Obama is ...

Kayla Michelle Finley may be wishing that services such as Netflix and Amazon Prime had been around a little earlier. The South Carolina woman spent a night in jail last week for failing to return a ...

Since portraying sharp witch Hermione in the "Harry Potter" series, Emma Watson has broken away from the supernatural with roles grounded in the (mostly) real world. After "My Week With Marilyn," "The ...

Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg is launching a "Ban Bossy" campaign Peggy Drexler: Abolishing the word is pointless; other words will take its place She says banning the word seems to say bossy qualities ...

We may take it for granted now, but email has changed the way we interact with one another. Ten years ago Google launched Gmail, a free web-based email service (at first invite-only) that has grown ...

The death row case of former U.S. Army Master Sgt. Timothy Hennis is unprecedented. "Tim Hennis is the only person in United States history who's been tried for his life three times after guilty and ...

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on Friday signed a broad agreement of cooperation with the European Union, the same deal whose reversal set off a crisis in the nation. The signing came hours ...

Read CNN’s 1964 Civil Rights Act Fast Facts and learn about the law that prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or national origin.

A Malaysia Airlines passenger jet crashed in a rebel-controlled part of eastern Ukraine on Thursday, spurring swift accusations from Ukrainian officials that “terrorists” shot down the aircraft. The ...

I have always been a fiercely independent woman. I learned from my grandmother – the breadwinner in her marriage – that there was nothing that a woman couldn’t do as well as a man. I started working ...