The tech revolution helping to bring Africa’s unbanked into the digital economy

At CNN’s Global Perspectives event, MTN Group Fintech set out how its mobile platform is unlocking financial inclusion in ...

Federal court bars Texas from using new Republican-friendly US House map in midterms

A federal court Tuesday blocked Texas from using its newly drawn congressional map in next year’s midterms, ruling that the ...

Larry Summers says he is ‘deeply ashamed’ after new Jeffrey Epstein emails and will pause public engagements

Larry Summers said Monday night that he was “deeply ashamed” about his relationship with the convicted sex offender Jeffrey ...

South Korea bans flights as 500,000 take crucial university admission test

More than half a million people in South Korea sat for the country’s gruelling university entrance exam on Thursday as police mobilised to ensure they made it to the test sites on time and all flights ...

November 19, 2025: Lindsey Halligan says full grand jury never saw final indictment it handed up against Comey

Interim US Attorney Lindsey Halligan said only two grand jurors reviewed the final indictment it handed up against former FBI Director James Comey. “There is no indictment,” Comey’s attorney replied.

The explosions that tore through Russia’s pipelines to Europe are still causing rifts years on

It was a late September night when muffled blasts and a stream of bubbles broke the surface of the Baltic Sea. Explosions had ripped through the two Nord Stream gas pipelines, Russia’s gas highway ...

Trump has signed a bill directing DOJ to release Epstein case files. Here’s what we know about them

The House is scheduled to vote Tuesday to force the release of records amassed by federal prosecutors during the sex trafficking investigation and prosecution of Jeffrey Epstein and his accomplice ...

Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy released from prison pending appeal

Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy will be released from prison after a Paris court ruled he could be freed pending an appeal for his October conviction ...

Ted Rowlands

CNN/U.S. Based in Chicago, he has covered several high profile stories for the network, including the ongoing violence in Chicago, the trial and conviction of former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, ...

South Korea’s latest soft-power export? Late Samsung billionaire Lee Kun-hee’s vast art collection

Treasures from late Samsung boss Lee Kun-hee’s art collection are on show in the US after his family donated over 23,000 artworks to the South Korean public.
Opinion

Examining Brown v. Board, race and ‘equal protection’ through the eyes of the modern Supreme Court

As the Supreme Court heard arguments in a racially charged Louisiana voting rights case last month, down on its ground floor a special exhibit was running a continual loop of commentary from Chief ...

Joe Johns

CNN senior Washington correspondent in January 2014, previously he served as the network’s senior correspondent covering the Supreme Court and criminal justice. Known nationally for his crime and law ...