Two women accused of murdering Kim Jong Nam plead not guilty

Kuala Lumpur (CNN)Two young women pleaded not guilty in a Malaysian court Monday morning charged with the murder of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's half-brother, Kim Jong Nam.

Three years after Umbrella Movement, Hong Kongers back on the streets

Hong Kong (CNN)Almost three years to the day after the 2014 Umbrella Movement shut down parts of Hong Kong, thousands of people once again took to the streets Sunday.

In Iraq's tinderbox city, referendum sparks fears of sectarian war

Kirkuk, Iraq (CNN)Major Adnan Majeed stands in front of a cement wall scrawled with the names of Kurdish fighters killed by ISIS. A mural of the Kurdish flag with a rising sun at its center, blanketed with specks of sand, forms the heart of this makeshift memorial.

Price out as HHS secretary after private plane scandal

Washington (CNN)Tom Price, the embattled health and human services secretary, resigned Friday in the midst of a scandal over his use of private planes, a storm that enraged President Donald Trump and undercut his promise to bring accountability to Washington.

Torture in a Bottle How London became the world capital for acid attacks on young men

London (CNN) -- When two teenage boys threw acid at a food delivery driver and tried to steal his scooter, young Londoners sipping on cocktails at a nearby dim sum bar became their unwitting audience.

Playboy founder Hugh Hefner dead at 91

Hugh Hefner -- the silk-robed Casanova whose Playboy men's magazine popularized the term "centerfold," glamorized an urbane bachelor lifestyle and helped spur the sexual revolution of the 1960s -- has died, his company said late Wednesday. He was 91.

Private jets scandal, tax plan test Trump's brand

(CNN)Donald Trump's self styling as the people's champion who would drain the Washington swamp got him to the White House.But now that unique brand is in for a stern test as the President is battered by controversies over wealthy cabinet members living high on the taxpayer dime and as he pushes a tax plan that Democrats are already billing as a massive giveaway to Trump's rich friends.

Trump intends to sign executive order on health care next week

President Trump is taking the future of health insurance into his own hands. A day after Congress' last-ditch attempt to repeal Obamacare failed, Trump said he may soon sign an executive order on health care that would affect millions of people.

Michelle Obama: 'Any woman who voted against Hillary Clinton voted against their own voice'

(CNN)In candid remarks Wednesday, former first lady Michelle Obama said women who voted for Republican nominee Donald Trump over Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton went against their "authentic voice" in the 2016 presidential election.

After defying ISIS, 'Kurds aren't afraid of anything'

Irbil, Iraq (CNN)High-rise buildings surrounded by parks and villas pierce the skyline. Hotels and luxury cars dot the landscape. It would be easy to mistake this place for a neighborhood in uber-rich Dubai, but in fact it is downtown Irbil, the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan.