
First lady Melania Trump welcomed the official White House Christmas tree, a concolor fir which hails from Korson’s Tree Farms in Sidney, Michigan, and will be the centerpiece of the Blue Room.

First lady Melania Trump welcomed the official White House Christmas tree, a concolor fir which hails from Korson’s Tree Farms in Sidney, Michigan, and will be the centerpiece of the Blue Room.

Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, died at 111 years old on Monday, her grandson Ike Howard told CNN. “Mother Fletcher,” as she was known, sat with CNN's Omar Jimenez multiple times for interviews in recent years.

Dorothy’s slippers aren't ruby-colored in “Wicked: For Good," but it’s not a mistake. The silver shoes are actually quite a bit closer to L. Frank Baum’s original description of “odd little silver boots," rather than the technicolor ruby slippers we're all familiar with from the 1939 film adaptation.

The announcement of the Bezos’s as sponsors of the 2026 Met Gala drew immediate criticism on social media. Here’s how Anna Wintour responded.

Jimmy Cliff, the singer who helped popularize the reggae genre, has died at age 81, his wife announced on Instagram on Monday. “It’s with profound sadness that I share that my husband, Jimmy Cliff, has crossed over due to a seizure followed by pneumonia,” Latifa Chambers said.

MIT researchers developed a new ultrasonic device that can harvest clean drinking water from the air in minutes.

Police say Morgan Geyser, one of the teens involved in the 2014 Slender Man stabbing, cut off her GPS monitor and vanished. She was found more than 150 miles away at an Illinois truck stop.

Tatiana Schlossberg, the 35-year-old granddaughter of President John F. Kennedy, has revealed that she has terminal acute myeloid leukemia. Diagnosed shortly after giving birth, Schlossberg says doctors have told her she likely has less than a year to live.

CNN's Victor Blackwell spoke with a mom who says a hospital in Indiana discharged her while she was in labor, forcing her to give birth on the side of the road. The hospital she visited, Franciscan Health Crown Point, says the nurse and doctor responsible for her care are no longer employed.



