A firefighter, police officer and an FBI agent. The tale of an accused serial law enforcement impersonator

At an extravagant reception, hotelier Steve Farzam seemed to literally plunge into marriage, appearing to dive from a helicopter in a rainbow parachute onto the grounds of a luxury hotel north of ...

Her dad was detained in China for leading a church. She hopes Trump can free him in meeting with Xi

Dozens of pastors and church members in China have been detained in a mass crackdown. The daughter of pastor Ezra Jin hopes President Donald Trump can appeal for her dad’s freedom in meeting with Xi ...

How Indiana upended decades of futility to become college football’s most unlikely rising power

Galen Clavio walked into the student mailroom – back when student mailrooms were still a thing – and found an envelope stuffed in his mailbox. Inside were six tickets for each of that season’s Indiana ...

Misty Copeland permanently changed ballet and the arts. Now she’s ready for her next challenge

After a storied, decades-long career, ballerina Misty Copeland — known just as much for her advocacy offstage as her accomplishments on — is retiring from American Ballet Theatre.

Former cyclist Emma Pooley witnessed ‘unscientific bullying’ around food amid the sport’s high prevalence of eating disorders

Emma Pooley may have retired from professional cycling more than a decade ago, but she believes that the effects of under-fueling – what she describes as her “weird” relationship with food – are still ...

US Navy’s ‘most lethal combat platform,’ the carrier USS Gerald R Ford, is being sent to the Caribbean

The aircraft carrier USS Gerald R Ford, billed by the US Navy as “the most capable, adaptable, and lethal combat platform in the world,” is being sent to the Caribbean as the Trump administration ...
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After years of progress on gender, the male gaze is back

This summer, I got cultural whiplash. As a child of the ’90s and early 2000s, I grew up with my mother’s and grandmother’s generations’ fight for legal and workplace equality helping shed social ...
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A’ja Wilson confirms status as generational great with historic WNBA Finals performance

A’ja Wilson stood inside a circle of her Las Vegas Aces teammates on Friday, playing a tambourine. The superstar center was orchestrating the celebrations, just as she had orchestrated the performance ...
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Africa has ‘unlimited’ solar potential. Off-grid power could help light up the continent

EDITOR’S NOTE: Global Perspectives is a CNN editorial and live event series exploring the dynamic economies at the frontlines of global transformation. The first Global Perspectives live event, taking ...
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They were thousands of miles from home in a hospital in India. Here’s how they met and fell in love

It was possibly the last place on earth Charlotte Phillips expected to find love. In a small hospital in Delhi, India, her mother, Janet, was undergoing a last-resort treatment for her debilitating ...
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The making of an al Qaeda fighter: Spin Ghul’s journey from the streets of Saudi Arabia to jihadi training camps

EDITOR’S NOTE: The following is excerpted from the book Race Against Terror by Jake Tapper, published by Atria, an Imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc. Printed by ...

This whole referendum in California is kind of complicated. Here’s what residents are voting on

One of the most consequential elections this year isn’t between a Democratic and Republican candidate, but over a ballot initiative in California.