| What if 'E.T.' finds Voyager? Posted: 14 Sep 2013 12:34 AM PDT Meg Urry says NASA's Voyager 1's achievement is a major milestone in human exploration.  |
| Give Apple your fingerprint? Posted: 14 Sep 2013 12:54 AM PDT Using your fingerprint to identify yourself seems beguilingly simple: it belongs only to you, and you aren't going to lose it. Apple's use of fingerprint technology -- although not the first in the industry -- seems very in tune with its ethos of making devices easy to use.  |
| Thief shocks store owner with note Posted: 14 Sep 2013 10:34 AM PDT A man that robbed a store at gunpoint in 2001 returned the money and a note to the store owner in 2013.  |
| Deal gives Syria a week to disclose chemical weapons Posted: 14 Sep 2013 01:06 PM PDT "There are consequences should the Assad regime not comply," President Obama said." And, if diplomacy fails, the United States remains prepared to act."  |
| Schools hire social media monitors Posted: 14 Sep 2013 01:16 PM PDT A suburban Los Angeles school district is now looking at the public postings on social media by middle and high school students, searching for possible violence, drug use, bullying, truancy and suicidal threats.  |
| Secrets revealed about missing girl Posted: 13 Sep 2013 09:12 PM PDT As she approaches the two-year anniversary of her daughter Ayla's disappearance, Trista Reynolds is getting more and more frustrated that the case remains unsolved.  |
| Hot dog vendor fired over ketchup Posted: 14 Sep 2013 11:30 AM PDT Charlie the singing hot dog vendor was recently fired over his alleged combative response to patrons needing ketchup.  |
| Judgment day for all of India Posted: 14 Sep 2013 07:22 AM PDT Anticipation hung heavier than the sultry air outside the massive court complex Friday afternoon. Here and all across India, people awaited the decision from Courtroom No. 304.  |
| Cosby: We have to talk about this Posted: 14 Sep 2013 06:40 AM PDT Bill Cosby remembers where the country was and where he was 50 years ago. Watch more tonight at 4, 5, and 6 EST on CNN.  |
| E-cigarettes: Healthy or harmful? Posted: 14 Sep 2013 10:38 AM PDT If the tiny sample of smokers in a new study in the British journal Lancet are any indication, electronic cigarettes might be slightly more effective than nicotine patches in helping people quit smoking.  |
| Darius Rucker: I'm not Hootie Posted: 14 Sep 2013 07:53 AM PDT Darius Rucker discusses the early days of Hootie & the Blowfish and how "Hee Haw" sparked his love for country music.  |
| James Bond-style security system Posted: 14 Sep 2013 10:20 AM PDT From bombproof doors to tactical fog machines, check out this ultra-secure mansion in the Hollywood Hills.  |
| Lego-like meth lab toy is a hit Posted: 14 Sep 2013 06:35 AM PDT The popular show, "Breaking bad," has influenced the creation of a superlab meth playset retailing for $250.  |
| 172 missing in floods Posted: 14 Sep 2013 11:35 AM PDT The mission for emergency responders in northern Colorado on Saturday: To bring order to chaos.  |
| 'My mom's house is gone' Posted: 14 Sep 2013 08:35 AM PDT Anderson Cooper speaks to Katie Farmer whose parents are trapped in their Colorado home due to floods.  |
| Sewer muck inundates home Posted: 14 Sep 2013 09:38 AM PDT A family's home is inundated with sewage and water spewing from their bathroom during the Colorado flooding.  |
| Flood threat eases in New Mexico Posted: 14 Sep 2013 11:02 AM PDT Torrential downpours that swamped much of New Mexico in the past few days began, finally, to let up on Saturday.  |
| Priest attacked with acid Posted: 14 Sep 2013 09:23 AM PDT A priest was attacked with acid on the east African island of Zanzibar in the third such unprovoked assault in two months, and remained hospitalized Saturday, the cleric told CNN.  |
| Bus carrying 52 flips in Ohio Posted: 14 Sep 2013 03:44 AM PDT A passenger bus turned over onto its roof early Saturday while traveling through Ohio, authorities said.  |
| Well-liked teens, young mom slain Posted: 14 Sep 2013 04:00 AM PDT They were sons and daughters with their whole lives ahead of them. But their promise was cut short on a rural Tennessee road, all four shot dead inside a car.  |
| Hip-hop DJ's confession stirs debate Posted: 13 Sep 2013 05:41 PM PDT DJ Mister Cee reacts to a video that allegedly shows him soliciting a transgender prostitute.  |
| Fighting dogs now being trained to love Posted: 14 Sep 2013 03:16 AM PDT The tiny puppy with the white and brown fur doesn't have a name yet, just a number: 917.  |
| NASA launches rocket ... and frog Posted: 14 Sep 2013 05:46 AM PDT 3, 2, 1 ... a frog blasted off with a moon probe. CNN's Jeanne Moos reports on the frog that got launched.  |
| Tragedy transformed an island paradise Posted: 14 Sep 2013 02:22 AM PDT In the past year, the island of Giglio has shifted from a secluded utopia to the epicenter of the largest-ever maritime salvage operation in the world.  |
| Miss Kansas reveals her ink Posted: 14 Sep 2013 08:32 AM PDT Anderson Cooper predicts Miss Kansas will win Miss America due to her extensive resume which includes hunting and racing.  |
| She had potty mishap in HOV lane Posted: 14 Sep 2013 10:44 AM PDT Actress Charlyne Yi talks about her bathroom emergency that caused her to use the HOV lane while driving alone.  |
| Tragedy transformed an island paradise Posted: 14 Sep 2013 02:22 AM PDT In the past year, the island of Giglio has shifted from a secluded utopia to the epicenter of the largest-ever maritime salvage operation in the world.  |
| At least 172 people missing in 1 county Posted: 14 Sep 2013 12:25 AM PDT More rain is forecast through Sunday, on top of the 15 inches some parts of the state have already received.  |
| Well-liked students, young mom slain Posted: 13 Sep 2013 06:47 PM PDT They were sons and daughters with their whole lives ahead of them. But their promise was cut short on a rural Tennessee road.  |
| Tragedy transformed an island paradise Posted: 14 Sep 2013 02:22 AM PDT In the past year, the island of Giglio has shifted from a secluded utopia to the epicenter of the largest-ever maritime salvage operation in the world.  |
| Animation: How they plan to raise it Posted: 14 Sep 2013 02:18 AM PDT It's been 19 months since the Costa Concordia, one of the largest cruise liners ever built, ran aground off the west coast of Italy, killing 32 passengers and capsizing after granite rock tore a 50-meter hole in the ship's hull.  |
| The Master mariner in charge Posted: 14 Sep 2013 02:17 AM PDT On a sweltering afternoon in the middle of August, Nick Sloane is chatting with a couple of journalists over beer at an outdoor cafe in Giglio harbor.  |
| Divers examine wreckage Posted: 14 Sep 2013 02:19 AM PDT Divers explore the wreckage of the Costa Concordia ahead of attempts to raise the ill-fated cruise liner.  |
| Photos: The disaster Posted: 14 Sep 2013 02:18 AM PDT |
| Syria Posted: 14 Sep 2013 10:02 AM PDT Russia and the United States announced Saturday that they have reached a groundbreaking deal on a framework to eliminate Syria's chemical weapons, after talks in Switzerland.  |
| Colorado flood Posted: 14 Sep 2013 10:04 AM PDT The mission for emergency responders in northern Colorado Saturday: "To bring order to a chaotic situation," as an incident commander put it.  |
| Bodies in car Posted: 13 Sep 2013 09:38 PM PDT They were sons and daughters, with their whole lives ahead of them. Until -- for reasons no one has yet explained -- their lives came to a horrific, bloody halt on a rural road on Tennessee's Cumberland Plateau.  |
| India rape case Posted: 14 Sep 2013 10:45 AM PDT Anticipation hung heavier than the sultry air outside the massive court complex Friday afternoon. Here and all across India, people awaited the decision from Courtroom No. 304.  |
| Costa Concordia Posted: 14 Sep 2013 02:44 AM PDT Father Lorenzo Pasquotti keeps hundreds of cards and letters from the passengers and crew members who survived the wreck of the Costa Concordia cruise liner on a shelf in the rectory of the brick-faced Church of the Madonna of Giglio, just up the narrow street from the island's only port.  |