WaPo: Trump's personal calls to world leaders leave White House aides in the dark
(CNN)President Donald Trump started handing out his personal cell phone number to world leaders shortly after he took office last year, leading to one-on-one calls that even top White House aides did not know about, according to a report in The Washington Post
US destroyers sailed through Taiwan Strait
(CNN)In a move that could heighten tensions between Washington and Beijing, two US Navy destroyers have sailed through the Taiwan Strait, a US Navy official has confirmed to CNN
All the world's a stage for Trump for next 11 days
Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump, a political impresario and disrupter, is never happier than when holding the world in thrall. But the next 11 days -- when he is expected to enlist a new Supreme Court pick
DNA testing being done on separated migrant children and parents, official says
(CNN)DNA testing is being conducted as part of the process to reunite children who were separated from their parents at the border, a federal official with knowledge of the reunifications told CNN.
Thai cave rescue: Round trip to see boys takes 11 hours
Chiang Rai, Thailand (CNN)Divers working to free 12 boys and their coach who are trapped in a cave in northern Thailand must navigate dark, flooded tunnels for six hours to reach them. It takes another five hours to return
Amesbury victims poisoned by same nerve agent used on ex-spy
Amesbury, United Kingdom (CNN)British investigators have descended upon a small English town to find out how two seemingly random individuals were exposed to the same Soviet-era nerve agent that nearly killed a former Russian double agent and his daughter earlier this year.
Top Chinese executive dies after falling from wall in France
Wang Jian, the chairman of high-profile Chinese conglomerate HNA Group, has died in an accident, the company said Wednesday.
Trump's NATO demands, explained
Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump has scaled up his demands on NATO allies ahead of a summit next week in Brussels, Belgium. And as he has since he was a candidate, Trump has mostly mischaracterized the spending issue in a way that casts European countries as freeloaders
Facebook shutters the teen app it just bought
Facebook is shutting down three apps, including a teen app called tbh, which it bought about eight months ago.In a blog post, the social network said it would shutter the tbh, Hello and Moves apps due to "low usage." Facebook will delete user data from the apps within 90 days.
England knocks out Colombia on penalties to reach the quarterfinals
(CNN)No country had lost more penalty shootouts at a World Cup, but even though history was against them England's inexperienced team held its nerve to see off Colombia in a tense finale and progressed to the quarterfinals.
