Breaking News, Latest News and Videos | CNN

Israel-Iran conflict

Armed rebels in DR Congo

China’s internet controls

Suga discharged from South Korean military service

Best wines in the world for 2025

Live Updates

Israeli air defense system fires to intercept missiles during an Iranian attack over Tel Aviv, Israel, Saturday, June 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Israeli air defense system fires to intercept missiles during an Iranian attack over Tel Aviv, Israel, Saturday, June 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Israel claims killing of Iranian commanders as conflict enters second week

Air defense systems "heavily engaged" over parts of Iran, state-affiliated media says

US citizens evacuated from Israel on flights to Greece, State Department official says

Trump returns to White House and is set to meet with his national security team

Erdogan says Turkey is ready to facilitate dialogue between Iran and US

Iranian government spokesperson says negotiations will be meaningless if attacks continue

Iran is open to a pact similar to the 2015 nuclear deal to end current conflict, foreign minister says

Israeli military says it struck Iranian drone facilities, F-14 fighter jets and radar sites across Iran

US State Department has begun evacuation flights from Israel, ambassador says

Israeli foreign minister claims attacks on Iran set back its building of a nuclear bomb by "2 or 3 years"

Iran will consider weapon shipments to Israel "legitimate targets," military spokesperson warns

CNN team on the ground hears loud explosions east of Tehran

US B-2 bombers are headed west, as Trump weighs Iran options

Israel claims Cyprus authorities thwarted a terror attack on Israelis in the country

Iranian air defenses sound in Tehran

Iranian president says Tehran is "ready for negotiation" but will not halt nuclear activities

"This time is different": Americans stuck in Israel are eager to get out

Some internet restrictions in Iran have been eased, communications ministry says

UN nuclear watchdog says centrifuge workshop damaged in Israeli strikes at Iran's Isfahan nuclear site

Wounded Iranians speak to CNN inside a Tehran hospital

Israel says 99% of Iranian drones intercepted since start of conflict

Over 400 people killed and thousands injured in Iran since beginning of conflict, health ministry says

New York Times: Iran's supreme leader names potential successors in case he is killed

What we know about the Quds Force

France will "accelerate" negotiations between Iran and Europe, Macron says

JUST IN: Israel launches strikes on southwestern Iran

Israel says it killed second Iranian commander from elite Quds Force

Tehran residents attempt to resume normal life as internet returns

Israeli attacks killed dozens of women and children, Iran says

Iranian drones strike Israel in rare penetration of air defenses

Iran warns US involvement in Israel conflict would be "very dangerous for everybody"

Israel says it "eliminated" Iranian Quds Force commander

Iran doesn’t know how it can trust US after Israeli attack, foreign minister says

Israel and Iran exchange new fire as Tehran refuses to re-enter US talks until strikes cease. Here’s what we know

Iran can still inflict pain on Israel, security analyst says

India says it will evacuate nationals from Iran

Drones shot down across Israel in latest Iranian assault

Iran rejects Israeli claim its missile stocks are dwindling

Semblance of normality returns to Tehran, CNN correspondent observes, but Iran’s capital remains a target

Iranian official says Isfahan nuclear research complex was targeted in Israeli attack

Explosions heard in Isfahan, Iranian state media says

2 killed in strike on residential building in Qom, Iranian state media reports

Video shows building on fire in Holon after latest Iranian strikes on Israel

Israel says it has begun a new wave of attacks in Iran

See all updates (43+)

CNN's Fred Pleitgen visited a hospital in the Iranian capital of Tehran to hear from residents injured in airstrikes.

Video Iranian deputy health minister tells CNN why his surgeons are prepared for strikes 1:54

Video Video shows missiles from Iran streaking skies of Israel 0:36

Video CNN on the ground in Tehran as protesters take to the streets 1:25

US moves B-2 bombers as Trump weighs Iran options

Show all

A B-2 Spirit Bomber is seen in Nevada on January 23, 2024.

Carlos Barria/Reuters/FILE

The planes appear to be heading west, but a US defense official said there has been no order to move forward with any kind of operation

Live Updates Iran is open to a pact similar to the 2015 nuclear deal to end current conflict, foreign minister says

Analysis Four potential outcomes of Iran-Israel conflict

Trump says two-week timeframe is the ‘maximum’ to decide on US involvement

‘It’s a scary time to be here right now’: Americans stuck in Israel are desperate to get out

Pakistan nominates Trump for Nobel Peace Prize, praising ‘stellar statemanship’

Video Fred Pleitgen asks Iranian official how they would respond if the US bombed nuclear site 2:24

Catch up on today's global news

- Source: CNN

Video Catch up on today’s news

People stand on a rooftop amidst billowing smoke following an overnight Israeli strike in Tehran on June 17.

Atta Kenare/AFP/Getty Images

‘Life is full of unexpected surprises’: People trying to call Iran meet mysterious voice message

WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 20: U.S. President Donald Trump walks out of the Oval Office before boarding Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House on June 20, 2025 in Washington, DC. Trump is traveling to Bedminster, New Jersey. (Photo by Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images)

Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images

How Trump decided to hold off on striking Iran

More top stories

Columbia Protester Mahmoud Khalil released from immigration detention center

Matthew Hinton/AP

Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil reunited with his wife, newborn son after spending months at a Louisiana detention center

She served her estranged husband’s family Beef Wellington. Within three days of the meal, three guests died

At least 8 dead after hot air balloon accident in southern Brazil

Armed rebels take control of Heineken facilities in DR Congo’s war-hit east

Video Palestinian boy’s emotional plea for food in Gaza 1:23

Leo says no abuses should be tolerated in the Catholic Church, praises journalists who expose wrongs

Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and President Donald Trump.

New details about Trump and Andrew Cuomo’s past run-ins may be a guide for what’s ahead

A view of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on May 23, 2025.

Faith Ninivaggi/Reuters

Trump says Harvard has acted ‘appropriately’ and deal could soon be announced

Kaitlan Collins June 20 Week Wrap 1.jpg

Jeremy Moorhead / CNN

Video Kaitlan Collins’ reports on Trump’s week on Israel and Iran tension and short G7 trip 3:43

BTS member Suga attends an NBA basketball game between the Los Angeles Lakers and the Dallas Mavericks in Los Angeles, on January 12, 2023.

Jae C. Hong/AP/File

Last BTS member Suga discharged from South Korean military service, paving way for reunion

0620 ZZJ Trash Cave Thumbnail Clean.png

Video Caves near China’s ‘Avatar Mountains’ found packed with decade-old trash 0:59

Moka_Surface-Tension-07-눈물의-표면장력-07_2024_1.jpg

Courtesy the artist/Jason Haam

Artist finds portrait subjects on her Instagram feed. The paintings sell for hundreds of thousands of dollars

Karen Read, center, waves to supporters after she was found not guilty of second-degree murder on Wednesday, June 18, 2025, in Dedham, Mass. (AP Photo/Josh Reynolds)

Josh Reynolds/AP

Karen Read is free, but more legal trouble looms

Vance Luther Boelter, 57, the suspected gunman in the murder of a Minnesota Democratic state lawmaker and her husband.

Ramsey County Sheriff's Office/Handout/Reuters

Suspect in Minnesota lawmaker attacks was a ‘prepper’ who had drafted a ‘bailout plan’ for wife, according to court filing

Zambia's players hold a banner in memory of the 1993 plane crash that killed the Zambia team in Gabon, as they celebrate their victory of the African Cup of Nations after their final soccer match against Ivory Coast at Stade de l'Amitie in Libreville, Gabon, Sunday, Feb. 12, 2012. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)

Francois Mori/AP

How Zambian soccer recovered from a plane crash that killed a golden generation

Aaron Cherrie Photography

Video Photographer captures the Milky Way in one of the UK’s darkest places 3:31

A grape picker harvests fruit from the vines in a vineyard during the traditional Champagne wine harvest in Bethon, France, August 20, 2020. Picture taken August 20, 2020.

Charles Platiau/Reuters

This country has the best wines in the world for 2025

Big hype, tiny plushie: Visualizing the Labubu craze in 5 charts

GAO shot - ASU boats in Honaunau Bay - 25Jan2020.

An explosion of sea urchins threatens to push coral reefs in Hawaii ‘past the point of recovery’

Grosse told CNN that she hopes the work makes visitors reconsiders what a painting can be. It “doesn’t have to be like a pancake on a wall,” she says.

Jens Ziehe/Courtesy the artist/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2025

This artist just spray painted a public square in Switzerland

A poster advertising a Jack the Ripper tour is pictured alongside Gunthorpe Street in Whitechapel on 12th February 2024 in London, United Kingdom. Jack the Ripper was a notorious and unidentified serial killer linked to a series of unsolved murders between 1888 and 1891 known as the Whitechapel murders. Martha Tabram, who may have been the first victim of Jack the Ripper, was murdered in Gunthorpe Street, then known as George Yard, on 7th August 1888. (photo by Mark Kerrison/In Pictures via Getty Images)

Mark Kerrison/In Pictures/Getty Images

London has leaned into Jack the Ripper tourism. The locals don’t like it

Florian Wirtz of Bayer 04 Leverkusen looks on during the Bundesliga match between 1. FSV Mainz 05 and Bayer 04 Leverkusen at MEWA Arena on May 17, 2025 in Mainz, Germany.

Pau Barrena/Getty Images

Liverpool announce $156million signing, the most expensive in Premier League history

f1 bruckheimer bardem idris intv.png

Video Brad Pitt at 180 mph: Inside the making of ‘F1’ 5:00

Featured Sections

Space and science

Scientists say a tiny brown moth navigates 600 miles using stars — just like humans and birds

A massive rocket explosion stirs up talk of setbacks. Are Musk’s Mars ambitions farther than they seem?

Huge Roman frescoes buried in pieces for 1,800 years uncovered

‘Dragon Man’ DNA revelation puts a face to a mysterious group of ancient humans

Global Travel

Show all

Mark Berry/British Naturism

The new nudity: A 21st-century guide to taking off your clothes

World’s best airline for 2025 named by Skytrax

World’s most liveable city for 2025 revealed

24 of the world’s best salads

Global Business

Jayson Tatum #0 of the Boston Celtics rebounds during the game against the Los Angeles Lakers on March 8, 2025 at TD Garden in Boston, Massachusetts.

Nathaniel S. Butler/NBAE/Getty Images

Sales prices for sports teams are soaring to record levels. Here’s why, and what that means for fans

Trump says America has ‘too many’ national holidays and they’re hurting the economy. Is he right?

America’s economy could face a war shock

US Steel, once America’s biggest company, is now under foreign ownership

Art and Style

512 Airport Road features distinctive archers above its windows.

Hussain AlMoosawi

Stunning photos of geometric facades reveal this country’s quirky architectural identity

Look of the Week Carolyn Bessette Kennedy and the dangers of dressing an icon

Inside Titi Ogufere’s bold mission to redefine African design

A new art exhibition says we’ve gotten sexual identity all wrong

SPORT

Show all

AF Corse car, a Ferrari 499P driver Robert Kubica, left, of Poland celebrates his win on the podium with third Ferrari AF Corse driver Antonio Giovinazzi of Italy, on the podium after winning the 24-hour Le Mans endurance race, Sunday June 15, 2025 in Le Mans, western France. (AP Photo/Jeremias Gonzalez)

Jeremias Gonzalez/AP

Once the victim of a life-threatening crash, Robert Kubica completes ‘highest goal’ in endurance racing with Le Mans victory

Milwaukee Brewers rookie Jacob Misiorowski breaks 125-year-old record with six perfect innings against Minnesota Twins

A clash of English and Brazilian teams in Philadelphia shows off exactly what FIFA wants from the Club World Cup

Lionel Messi: The player who’s bigger than the club… and the FIFA Club World Cup tournament?

US Politics

WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 18: The U.S. Capitol Building is seen at sunset on June 18, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Kevin Carter/Getty Images)

Kevin Carter/Getty Images

What to know as the Senate tries to pass Trump’s agenda bill next week

Analysis The many ugly polls on Trump’s ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’

The DNC’s cash crunch deepens as new filings show Republicans with a huge advantage

US law enforcement reexamining Hezbollah intel, but there’s no indication of credible threats

health and wellness

Video Mouth tape is a billion-dollar industry. Is it worth your money? 2:31

How to prevent heatstroke and other heat-related emergencies

Analysis When kids use screens, parents worry about the wrong thing, new study suggests

Highly microplastic-polluted US coastal waters linked to serious health risks, study finds

Tech

Andrew Brookes/Image Source/Getty Images

‘She never sleeps’: This platform wants to be OnlyFans for the AI era

Pope Leo calls for an ethical AI framework in a message to tech execs gathering at the Vatican

Trump grants TikTok another 90-day extension in enforcement of sale-or-ban law

AI warnings are the hip new way for CEOs to keep their workers afraid of losing their jobs

Photos You Should See

An oil storage facility burns in Tehran, Iran, after being hit by Israeli airstrikes on Sunday, June 15.

• Gallery Gallery

Arash Khamooshi/The New York Times/Redux

Gallery The week in 37 photos

HERZLIYA, ISRAEL - JUNE 17: People look at a crater in the ground after a missile strike on June 17, 2025 in Herzliya, Israel. Iran launched a wave of retaliatory missile strikes on Israel starting late on June 13, after a series of Israeli airstrikes earlier in the day targeted Iranian military and nuclear sites, as well as top military officials. The two countries have continued to trade volleys of missiles in the days since. (Photo by Amir Levy/Getty Images)

• Gallery Gallery

Amir Levy/Getty Images

Gallery In pictures: The escalating conflict between Israel and Iran

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - OCTOBER 15: Anne Burrell makes a culinary presentation during the Food Network New York City Wine & Food Festival presented by Capital One - Grand Tasting featuring Culinary Demonstrations presented by Liebherr Appliances on October 15, 2022 in New York City. (Photo by Dave Kotinsky/Getty Images for NYCWFF)

• Gallery Gallery

Dave Kotinsky/Getty Images

Gallery People we’ve lost in 2025

Demonstrators take part in the "No Kings Day" protest, Saturday, June 14, 2025, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)

• Gallery Gallery

Gallery In pictures: The nationwide ‘No Kings’ protests

Here, mineral ore extraction can be seen encroaching on an abandoned miners’ town. Poli hopes that the series will help to highlight unsustainable mining practices which are being fuelled by increased global demand for copper, a critical mineral in the transition to renewable energy.

• Gallery Gallery

Gallery Haunting image of an abandoned mining town wins Earth Photo prize

Kalpeshbhqi Patni, 28, mourns as he waits outside the postmortem room at a hospital, for his brother Akash Patni, 14, who died when an Air India Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner plane crashed during take-off from an airport, in Ahmedabad, India, June 13, 2025. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi

• Gallery Gallery

Adnan Abidi/Reuters

Gallery In pictures: Passenger plane crashes in India

In Case You Missed It

Richard Dreyfuss, Robert Shaw in Jaws - 1975

Universal/Kobal/Shutterstock

‘Jaws’ turns 50. It changed pop culture and our perception of sharks

The US can end Iran conflict with one call, official from Iran’s presidency says

Wife of Colorado attack suspect says she and her 5 children are ‘suffering’ in ICE custody

World’s most liveable city for 2025 revealed

28 killed in deadliest Russian strikes on Kyiv in almost a year

US singer Chris Brown pleads not guilty to assault charge in UK court

Close-knit celebrity chef community mourns loss of Anne Burrell: ‘We’ve lost someone truly special’

‘The best poles anywhere in the country’: Trump installs gigantic US flags at the White House

This puffer jacket uses light and sound to lull you to sleep anywhere

While North Korea denied Covid-19 cases, the virus was widespread and barely treated, report says