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A Japanese city official has been docked half a day's pay for repeatedly leaving his desk a few minutes too early, sparking a heated debate on social media over the severity of the punishment.

Hours after being sworn in on the local force, a suburban Pittsburgh officer fatally shot an unarmed 17-year-old who ran when police stopped a vehicle that was suspected to be involved in an earlier shooting, authorities said.

A year before the Trump administration's "zero-tolerance" policy resulted in more than 2,300 children being separated from their families at the border in a mere five-week period, a ninth-grader in McAllen, Texas, was taken from his mother.

Cindy Madrid, a mother who was separated from her daughter at the US border, talks to CNN's Rosa Flores about her desperation to be reunited with her child.

Sou Fujimoto balances habitability, nature and aesthetics with his genre-defying architecture.

As a 333-island nation in the South Pacific Ocean, Fiji is synonymous with clear waters, technicolor coral reefs and celebrity hideaways.

Doctors don't know what causes Alzheimer's disease or the best way to treat it, but they have new evidence to suggest that a common virus may play a role in who develops the condition.

An all-you-can-eat deal in a restaurant serving super spicy food sounds like a genius marketing campaign.

When a politician with authoritarian tendencies takes office -- even in a democratic country -- there's no way to know what the future holds. It's easy to take comfort in the prospects for setting everything right in the next election, to feel reassured by massive turnout in protests against excesses, and to believe that democracy is being protected by court rulings, by Congress, and by human decency.

President Donald Trump continued to mislead about the origin of the humanitarian crisis on the US border, saying Democrats refuse to approve new funds for detention facilities for children.

One thing that's clear from President Donald Trump's executive order trying to reverse course from his policy that resulted in family separations at the border: It's still not clear how it will work.

Italian scholars claim they have unearthed the first known piece by Renaissance genius Leonardo Da Vinci.

Demi Lovato has released a new single that reveals a heartbreaking setback in her road to recovery from addiction.