Jurors were told to keep deliberating despite telling the judge they couldn't reach a decision on Jodi Arias' punishment.

From the targeted killing of Americans overseas to the future of the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, President Barack Obama will lay out the framework and legal rationale for his administration's counterterrorism policy in a widely anticipated speech on Thursday.

Politics is full of second chances.

Advocates for comprehensive immigration reform won their first major legislative victory this week when the Senate Judiciary Committee voted 13-5 to approve the bipartisan "Gang of Eight" plan.

A 37-year-old man was arrested Wednesday afternoon in Washington state as part of a federal probe into ricin-laced letters found last week in that state, the FBI said.

Chopper bad boy Jesse James tweets gory photos of his severed pinkie. CNN's Jeanne Moos reports.

CNN's Anderson Cooper displays photos of some of those lost to the Moore, Oklahoma, tornado.

Hospital staff discuss the recovery of Ronald Poppo after a man chewed off parts of his face on a Miami street last year.

CNN's Chris Lawrence stands next to a "tornado" at a research facility where they put tornado shelters to the test.

The amateur cameraman who recorded the suspected attacker's statement tells his story to ITN's Paul Davies.

The IRS official in charge of the unit that targeted conservative groups takes the 5th. Erin Burnett reports.

A man suspected of the attack in London's Woolwich area is caught on camera wielding weapons.

New audio reveals the fear two teachers experienced as they huddled their students in a bathroom in Oklahoma.

Eric Garcetti won the Los Angeles mayoral race, and will become the city's first elected Jewish mayor.

Drawbridges, moats and towering turrets that bear menacing defensive positions -- royal households have traditionally taken to fighting off outsiders with an array of medieval deterrents.

The Chicago Board of Education voted Wednesday to close 50 schools in the city, according to a statement from the school district.

Look back at some of the worst tornadoes to rip through the Oklahoma City metro area in the past 15 years.

On Sunday, a mystery photograph fluttered from the sky and landed near Leslie Hagelberg's mailbox in West Tulsa, Oklahoma.

CNN "The Lead's" Jake Tapper spoke with the man who found the a mother and baby, crushed beneath the rubble.