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Emmanuel Macron is seen at a rally on April 16 in Marseille, France.

Emmanuel Macron wins France’s presidential election

April 25, 2022

Originally Published: 24 APR 22 14:00 ET Updated: 25 APR 22 11:36 ET By Joshua Berlinger and Joseph Ataman, CNN (CNN) -- Emmanuel Macron has won France's presidential election, fending off a historic...

Russian military vehicles move in an area controlled by Russian-backed separatist forces in Mariupol, Ukraine, Saturday, April 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Alexei Alexandrov)

Russia hits rail and fuel targets far from the eastern front

April 25, 2022

By DAVID KEYTON Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia unleashed a string of attacks Monday against rail and fuel installations deep inside Ukraine, far from the front lines of Moscow's new eastern...

Former Sen. Orrin Hatch, a Utah Republican, waits in the Senate President pro tempore office for the arrival of Brett Kavanaugh in the US Capitol on July 11, 2018 in Washington, DC.

Former Sen. Orrin Hatch, longest-serving GOP US senator, dies at 88

April 25, 2022

Originally Published: 23 APR 22 20:48 ET Updated: 24 APR 22 13:07 ET By Rachel Janfaza and Sara Murray, CNN (CNN) -- Former Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch, the longest-serving Republican senator...

Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, on Oct. 22, 2009 before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on NATO. Albright has died of cancer, her family said Wednesday, March 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari, File)

Madeleine Albright, 1st female US secretary of state, dies

March 23, 2022

MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Madeleine Albright, a child refugee from Nazi- and then Soviet-dominated Eastern Europe who rose to become the first female secretary of state and...

Biden on Putin: 'I think he is a war criminal'

Biden on Putin: ‘I think he is a war criminal’

Sam Fossum and Kevin Liptak, CNN March 17, 2022

(CNN) -- President Joe Biden called Russian President Vladimir Putin a "war criminal" Wednesday, a rhetorical leap that came as civilian deaths mount in Ukraine. It was the harshest condemnation of...

Former President Barack Obama tests positive for Covid-19

Former President Barack Obama tests positive for Covid-19

Arlette Saenz, CNN March 13, 2022

(CNN) -- Former President Barack Obama announced Sunday that he has tested positive for Covid-19. "I've had a scratchy throat for a couple days, but am feeling fine otherwise," he said on his official...

Florida legislature passes bill prohibiting some classroom instruction about sexual orientation and gender identity

Devan Cole, CNN March 8, 2022

(CNN) -- Lawmakers in Florida gave final approval Tuesday to a bill that would ban certain instruction about sexual orientation and gender identity in the classroom, sending the controversial bill to...

President Joe Biden delivers his State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress at the Capitol, Tuesday, March 1, 2022, in Washington. (Saul Loeb, Pool via AP)

President Joe Biden delivers his first State of the Union address

CNN Staff March 2, 2022

    (CNN) -- President Joe Biden delivered his first State of the Union address on Tuesday -- using the occasion to condemn the Russian invasion of Ukraine, promote his first year in the White House...

Passengers rush to board a train leaving to Slovakia from the Lviv railway station, in Lviv, west Ukraine, Wednesday, March 2, 2022. Russian forces have escalated their attacks on crowded cities in what Ukraine's leader called a blatant campaign of terror. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

Most of the world lines up against Moscow, attacks intensify

By JIM HEINTZ YURAS KARMANAU VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press March 2, 2022

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Most of the world lined up against Moscow at the United Nations on Wednesday to demand it withdraw from Ukraine, as invading Russian forces renewed their bombardment of the country's...

5 takeaways from President Biden’s State of the Union speech

Kevin Liptak CNN March 2, 2022

(CNN) -- President Joe Biden took to his biggest stage of the year Tuesday amid the most consequential stretch of his presidency so far.Confronting a war in Europe at the same moment he works to improve...

business, education and technology concept - close up of female hands with laptop typing at night

Microsoft says cyberattacks targeting Ukraine ‘raise serious concerns’ under Geneva Convention

Brian Fung CNN Business March 1, 2022

(CNN) -- As hacking by nation-states has grown more pervasive in recent years, Microsoft has long called for the creation of a new Geneva Convention governing cyberspace.But now, for the first time, the...

Ukrainian service members collect unexploded shells after a fighting with Russian raiding group in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv in the morning of February 26, 2022, according to Ukrainian service personnel at the scene. (Photo by Sergei SUPINSKY / AFP) (Photo by SERGEI SUPINSKY/AFP via Getty Images)

US officials fear the worst is yet to come for Kyiv

Katie Bo Lillis, Natasha Bertrand and Barbara Starr CNN February 28, 2022

(CNN) -- Ukrainian forces have so far managed to stave off Russian ground forces massed less than 20 miles north of the embattled capital Kyiv -- but though they've defied US intelligence predictions that...