Plane returns to LAX after flying with wrong passenger for hours
(CNN)Chrissy Teigen and other Tokyo-bound passengers ended up right where they started after eight hours of flying: Los Angeles.The model and TV personality tweeted about enduring her "flight to nowhere" Tuesday night after All Nippon Airways Flight 175 made a U-turn and headed back to Los Angeles.
How exactly does a passenger get on the wrong flight?
(CNN)How exactly does a passenger get on the wrong flight and go unnoticed for hours? That's the question that Chrissy Teigen and many others are asking in the wake of a passenger mix-up that caused a Tokyo-bound flight to return to Los Angeles after eight hours in the air.
Haley touts reduced UN budget
(CNN)US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley on Sunday touted a quarter billion dollar cut to the UN's annual budget, capping off a contentious year between the Trump administration and the international body
Big league 2018 goal: Trump hopes for bipartisan infrastructure deal
West Palm Beach, Florida (CNN)President Donald Trump, looking ahead to a critical election year where his record will be on the ballot alongside Republican lawmakers, plans a major push on infrastructure in January, aides said this week.
Medical evacuations begin from rebel-held Damascus suburb
(CNN)Evacuations of the first critical medical cases from a rebel-held region east of Damascus have begun, aid agencies say.The Syrian Red Crescent and International Committee of the Red Cross announced, on their official Twitter accounts Tuesday, that the first patients were to be taken out of the rebel-controlled area of Eastern Ghouta.
British tourist gets 3-year sentence in Egypt on drug smuggling charge
(CNN)A British woman who says she was carrying painkillers for her ailing partner was sentenced Tuesday to three years in prison and fined the equivalent of $5,611 by an Egyptian court.
Even for a place that gets a ton of snow, this was a record-breaking two days for Erie
(CNN)There's White Christmas. And then there's Whiteout Christmas. Erie, Pennsylvania, experienced the latter on Monday, when a total of 34 inches of snow fell on Christmas Day, blanketing the city and shattering the city's previous records for snowfall in a single day
Why Trump isn't getting the credit he thinks he deserves
Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump is probably right: he doesn't get due credit for the volume of achievements he's stacked up during a tumultuous political year.
The Boxing Day questions you've probably Googled
(CNN)Boxing Day is the day after Christmas, and it has absolutely nothing to do with your empty gift boxes.Here's what you need to know about the holiday.
Uproar continues in Peru after ex-president is pardoned
(CNN)Peruvians, angered at the pardoning of ailing former President Alberto Fujimori, took to the streets of the capital, Lima, for a second night to protest the decision to release him from prison.
