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Emma Stone is the latest actress to portray Disney's most vile villain. Rick Damigella delves into the character's history.

The European Space Agency has confirmed that the Italian astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti will be the first European woman to command the International Space Station. She enters a rare club: fewer than 600 astronauts have travelled in space and only about ten percent of them have been women.

While Memorial Day weekend is the unofficial start to summer, it may actually feel like summer across the West while the Northeast will endure instead record cold temperatures and heavy rain.

It's a straightforward question: How will we live together in the future? But there are few straightforward answers to be found amongst the 46 national pavilions that make up the world's largest architecture event. That's partly because the problems presented at the show: climate change, capitalism and inequality, sexism and racism are all complex and interconnected.

Guangzhou (AFP) – Walking tightropes, rappelling down a four-storey-high rope tunnel, sitting in a dangling basket 58 floors high — tourists have been steeling their nerves for adrenaline-filled challenges in a new assault course at the top of China's tallest TV tower.

Lesley Goldberg, West Coast TV Editor for The Hollywood Reporter, says for fans of the show, seeing the emotional cast members and the old, familiar set on "Friends: The Reunion" was "what you've been waiting 17 years for." (May 28)

Ahead of America's Memorial Day weekend, President Joe Biden hailed increased vaccination rates at home. But the U.S. continues to be accused of not doing enough to fight the pandemic around the world and is under pressure to come up with a global COVID-19 strategy when Biden meets with heads of other advanced economies at next month's G-7 summit.

CNN Correspondent Donie O'Sullivan speaks to a supporter of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) in Dalton, Georgia, where Greene and Rep. Matt Gaetz hosted an "America First" rally.

In the Heights, a film about the dreams and struggles of the Latino community in a New York neighborhood, is Lin Manuel Miranda's love letter to the place where he grew up. It also represents Miranda's high-stakes bet that people will flock to the theater after months of COVID restrictions.

CNN's David Culver reports on President Biden ordering an intelligence report investigating the origins of Covid-19.

Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, co-authors of "How Democracies Die," tell CNN's Anderson Cooper that American democracy has never been under threat in the way it is now.

Authorities in Sri Lanka are concerned about a burning ship off the coast of Colombo which could cause an oil leak affecting 30 kilometers of coastline.