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Transportation Secretary and Acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy speaks during an August 5 news conference at the Department of Transportation in Washington.

‘We’re not going to wait for one company’: NASA chief suggests SpaceX may be booted from moon mission

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — NASA may sideline SpaceX and choose a different company to land its astronauts on the moon later this decade, acting space agency chief Sean Duffy suggested during TV appearances Monday. Duffy emphasized that he believes SpaceX, which has a $2.9 billion contract to provide the lunar lander astronauts would

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US President Donald Trump meets with Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy over lunch in the Cabinet Room at the White House on October 17

How Trump-Zelensky meeting turned acrimonious over demands for territorial concessions

By Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump’s working lunch with his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday turned acrimonious when the US leader insisted Ukraine make territorial concessions to Russia to end the war, according to European officials briefed on the meeting. Trump, who would later endorse a freeze in current battle lines

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Virginia Giuffre

Virginia Giuffre raped by ‘well-known Prime Minister,’ US version of posthumous memoir claims

By Christian Edwards, Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN London (CNN) — Virginia Giuffre, one of the most prominent victims of Jeffrey Epstein’s sex-trafficking ring, wrote in her posthumous memoir that she was brutally beaten and raped by an unidentified prime minister and that she feared she might “die a sex slave.” “In my years with them, they

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Necklace and earrings from the emerald set of Napoleon's second wife Empress Marie-Louise shown at the Louvre Museum on May 20

Historic jewels stolen in ‘national disaster’ for France: What we know about missing Louvre treasures

By Lex Harvey, CNN (CNN) — Precious artifacts snatched from Paris’s Louvre Museum Sunday include an emerald necklace set among more than 1,000 diamonds gifted by Napoleon to his second wife and other treasures of “inestimable” value. The thieves targeted the Louvre’s Apollo Gallery on the upper floor, which houses the French Crown Jewels. In

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US District Judge Sara Ellis demanded ICE Field Director Russell Hott appear in court to explain to her why she is seeing images of tear gas being deployed and reading reports that there were no warnings given before it was deployed out in the field.

Federal officials try to reassure judge they’re following her orders to tone down and record Chicagoland protest actions

By Whitney Wild, Andi Babineau, Cindy Von Quednow, CNN Chicago (CNN) — Trump administration officials are defending themselves in court as a federal judge demands explanations for their response to tense protests against immigration enforcement actions in Chicago. Monday’s hearing began with a promise Customs and Border Protection is taking seriously the judge’s order for

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Pressure is mounting on Dolphins head coach Mike McDaniel after the team's heavy loss to the Cleveland Browns.

Historic and dramatic comebacks, second-year QB breaks Tom Brady record and high-profile benchings: NFL Week 7 Sunday review

By Ben Morse, CNN (CNN) — The theme of the NFL season so far has been the uncertainty of results, with late comebacks or collapses happening more and more. And Week 7 was no different, with teams overturning seemingly insurmountable leads to somehow rescue results from the most unlikely of situations. Through the first seven

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