| The Rosa Parks of the NFL Posted: 11 Feb 2014 10:49 AM PST A year ago in an interview with CNN's Carol Costello, I said it would take a difference-maker, a Rosa Parks or a Jackie Robinson-like figure, to stand up for what is right and break the ice so real progress can be made in the battle for equality in professional sports.  |
| Why Amazon's 100 books so wrong Posted: 11 Feb 2014 08:10 AM PST I'm a lover of books, great ones and not-so-great ones. And I also love lists. So it didn't surprise me when Amazon recently came out with its 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime.  |
| Water may still flow on Mars Posted: 10 Feb 2014 02:17 PM PST Mars may be cold and dry, but researchers have found evidence that liquid water may flow there in some places, seasonally.  |
| See BASE jumper before fatal dive Posted: 11 Feb 2014 04:26 AM PST Amber Marie Bellows and her then fiance Clayton Butler made this video of a jump three weeks before her tragic death.  |
| Atlanta prepares for the worst Posted: 11 Feb 2014 11:04 AM PST Forecasters are warning Atlantans that travel will soon be impossible and huge power outages are possible as an ice storm moves in.  |
| Emergency before first flake Posted: 11 Feb 2014 07:26 AM PST A severe ice storm could cripple Atlanta again.  |
| Travelers get another winter wallop Posted: 11 Feb 2014 10:34 AM PST Just stay home. That's the message from officials in the path of the South's latest nasty winter weather.  |
| Atlanta's guide to snow survival Posted: 11 Feb 2014 07:58 AM PST |
| What about castaway's companion? Posted: 11 Feb 2014 05:21 AM PST Roselia Rios cried as cameras rolled and headlines trumpeted a castaway's survival after more than a year adrift.  |
| NFLer: Naked remark poor example Posted: 10 Feb 2014 05:56 PM PST NFL linebacker Jonathan Vilma talks to CNN's John Berman about Michael Sam announcing he's gay ahead of the NFL draft.  |
| Mom: Son was suicidal at age 4 Posted: 11 Feb 2014 03:01 AM PST Gianni is 10 years old now, and he isn't getting better. His sister shares her worst fear about the family: "I feel like Gianni's gonna kill my mom and dad."  |
| Terrifying voices haunt little boy Posted: 11 Feb 2014 06:25 AM PST "We need help," says the mother of a severely mentally ill child. But help can be hard to find. CNN's Kyung Lah reports.  |
| Jack Hanna: Grotesque to kill giraffe Posted: 11 Feb 2014 06:11 AM PST The Columbus Zoo's Jack Hanna says a Copenhagen zoo's decision to kill a giraffe is "grotesque."  |
| Intruder leaves behind creepy selfie Posted: 11 Feb 2014 10:23 AM PST A woman says an intruder broke into her home and snapped a selfie on her phone while she was putting her kids to bed.  |
| Teen shoots self in classroom Posted: 11 Feb 2014 04:21 AM PST A student at Bend High School died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound on campus, according to the superintendent.  |
| Survey: Online trolls are 'sadists' Posted: 11 Feb 2014 11:02 AM PST If you've ever complained that the trolls junking up online comment sections are a bunch of sadistic psychopaths, you might be onto something.  |
| So, what's your baby really thinking? Posted: 11 Feb 2014 10:44 AM PST Dawn Soto often looks at her toddler's expressive face and tries to decipher his inner monologue. She wonders, "What goes through their little minds with all these new experiences?"  |
| 8 roadside curiosities worth the stop Posted: 11 Feb 2014 10:47 AM PST Lower your expectations enough and any roadside attraction is a good excuse to stretch your legs, lose a couple bucks, and see a genuine slice of Americana you'll likely never visit again.  |
| A speaker so loud it could kill you Posted: 11 Feb 2014 04:40 AM PST Sound waves from the ESA's Large European Acoustic Facility reach levels so high, they could shake your brain loose.  |
| Woman dies 3 weeks after flu kills baby Posted: 11 Feb 2014 10:02 AM PST An Arkansas woman, who lost her baby last month after coming down with the H1N1 flu virus, has now lost her life.  |
| Obama: 'I can do whatever I want' Posted: 11 Feb 2014 08:39 AM PST The President jokes with a tour guide as he takes a detour on a visit to Monticello with French President Francois Hollande.  |
| Shirley Temple Black dies Posted: 11 Feb 2014 08:49 AM PST She began acting at age 3 and became a box-office star before she was 10. Temple quit filmmaking at 22 after marrying Charles Black and launching a new career as a diplomat. She was 85.  |
| Photos: Child star transformations Posted: 11 Feb 2014 07:56 AM PST |
| Breakthrough in 1975 cold case Posted: 11 Feb 2014 08:49 AM PST Maryland police have made a breakthrough in a cold case going back to 1975, when two girls went missing, they said in a statement. They have identified a "person of interest" who is a known sex offender.  |
| See cop tackle fleeing bicyclist Posted: 11 Feb 2014 05:33 AM PST A police chase ends when a California policeman tackles a man trying to ride away on a bicycle.  |
| House GOP waves white flag on debt Posted: 11 Feb 2014 11:21 AM PST House Republican leaders have given up efforts to link other issues to raising the federal borrowing limit and will bring up a "clean" debt ceiling measure as soon as Wednesday, GOP sources told CNN Tuesday.  |
| Why don't sailors get sick? Posted: 11 Feb 2014 05:29 AM PST The United States Navy has 323,000 active duty service members, many of them housed in close quarters -- yet it is able to avoid major outbreaks of contagious diseases like those seen on commercial cruise ships.  |
| Jackson: 'I'm not Laurence Fishburne!' Posted: 10 Feb 2014 06:52 PM PST Samuel L. Jackson calls out an entertainment reporter who apparently confuses him with another African-American actor.  |
| Reckless biker posts video taunt Posted: 11 Feb 2014 10:21 AM PST The San Antonio Police Department is looking for a reckless driver who posted a video to their Facebook page.  |
| 8 roadside curiosities worth the stop Posted: 11 Feb 2014 12:45 PM PST Lower your expectations enough and any roadside attraction is a good excuse to stretch your legs, lose a couple bucks, and see a genuine slice of Americana you'll likely never visit again.  |
| Little boy killed in suspected mafia hit Posted: 11 Feb 2014 04:17 AM PST CNN's Erin McLaughlin reports on the short life and death of a boy whose family had apparent mafia connections.  |
| What's going on with Shia LaBeouf? Posted: 10 Feb 2014 03:08 PM PST Shia LaBeouf says he isn't famous anymore, but actually he's rarely been in a brighter spotlight.  |
| How it went down Posted: 10 Feb 2014 06:53 PM PST Dramatic security camera video published Monday shows U.S. commandos capturing suspected al Qaeda member Anas al-Libi last year in Libya.  |
| U.S. citizen a potential drone target Posted: 11 Feb 2014 12:44 PM PST U.S. counterterrorism officials are closely watching an al Qaeda fighter in Pakistan who could become the next American to be targeted for killing by a drone strike, CNN has learned.  |
| Sochi 2014: White fails in halfpipe as women make historic leap Posted: 11 Feb 2014 12:54 PM PST He is not used to failing and certainly not on a scale like this, but Shaun White's bid for a third successive snowboarding halfpipe title came crashing down as the legendary American failed to even make the podium.  |
| How it went down Posted: 10 Feb 2014 06:53 PM PST Dramatic security camera video published Monday shows U.S. commandos capturing suspected al Qaeda member Anas al-Libi last year in Libya.  |
| Were patients exposed to incurable disease? Posted: 11 Feb 2014 02:02 AM PST Officials from a North Carolina hospital are notifying 18 neurosurgery patients that they might have been exposed to Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, a serious and incurable neurological disorder.  |
| Do male athletes get more credit? Posted: 11 Feb 2014 07:16 AM PST Do male athletes get more credit and coverage than their female counterparts? Erin Burnett reports.  |
| Is this the summer Olympics? Posted: 11 Feb 2014 12:00 PM PST If you've packed your warmest hat and coziest jacket for the Winter Olympics, it would be a bit disconcerting to look out your hotel window and see a palm tree, swaying in a gentle spring-like breeze.  |
| U.S. bobsledder gets stuck again Posted: 11 Feb 2014 08:04 AM PST American bobsledder Johnny Quinn has gotten stuck again, this time in an elevator.  |
| Opinion: Strength of a 'girlie man' Posted: 11 Feb 2014 07:42 AM PST Like millions of Americans, I was glued to the Olympic Games over the weekend. I loved, simply loved, Ashley Wagner's strong, athletic performance on ice to one of my favorite songs from Pink Floyd.  |
| Winter weather Posted: 11 Feb 2014 05:55 AM PST If you're an Atlantan making a last-minute grocery run, here's hoping you love corn and asparagus. Because that's all that left on shelves as residents stocked up and hunkered down for an ice storm.  |
| Mafia raid Posted: 11 Feb 2014 07:09 AM PST Italian police and the FBI are carrying out a major anti-mafia raid in New York and several cities in Italy.  |
| Shirley Temple Posted: 11 Feb 2014 07:37 AM PST Shirley Temple Black, who rose to fame as arguably the most popular child star in Hollywood history, died late Monday night, her publicist said.  |
| Cold case Posted: 11 Feb 2014 02:16 AM PST Maryland police have made a breakthrough in a cold case going back to 1975, when two girls went missing, they said in a statement. They are looking at a convicted sex offender who was in the area at the time, but stopped short of calling the person a suspect.  |
| Norovirus Posted: 11 Feb 2014 07:37 AM PST The United States Navy has 323,000 active duty service members, many of them housed in close quarters -- yet it is able to avoid major outbreaks of contagious diseases like those seen on commercial cruise ships.  |
| Mental illness Posted: 11 Feb 2014 12:35 AM PST His mother is direct and matter-of-fact about her son over the phone.  |
| CJD exposure Posted: 11 Feb 2014 12:35 AM PST Doctors and hospital officials from Novant Health Forsyth Medical Center in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, are notifying 18 neurosurgery patients that they might have been exposed to Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, a serious and incurable neurological disorder.  |