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Former NFL running back Joe McKnight was shot and killed in an intersection in Terrytown, Louisiana.

Last December 2, more than a dozen people died in a massacre in San Bernardino, California, when a married couple opened fire at a holiday party in the Inland Regional Center, a state-run social services agency.

The devastating wildfires that struck this week in Gatlinburg, Tennessee, could not have been stopped, experts say.

Former astronaut Buzz Aldrin, the second person to walk on the moon in 1969, is being evacuated from the South Pole after his medical condition deteriorated, according to a release by the National Science Foundation.

Tristan Willmott is not your typical high school basketball standout. At 3'5", it's not the sophomore's ball-handling skills that make him sparkle, it's his height.

Is there any truth behind claims that the Kremlin has been using fake news to undermine the US presidential race? CNN's Jill Dougherty investigates.

For nearly six decades, Bette Nash has been sharing her contagious smile with the world -- from 30,000 feet.

While the President-elect's refusal to release his taxes remains a point of contention with his critics, Donald Trump's fans maintain it's not an issue.

Howard Schultz, the visionary leader of Starbucks, will be stepping down next year as CEO of the iconic coffee giant.

The musical "La La Land" has danced its way into snagging a biggie at the New York Film Critics Circle Awards.

Rep. Luis Gutiérrez (D) says he will not attend Donald Trump's presidential inauguration but will march with protesters in Washington.

Many a child spent their youth scrambling up trees and building secret dens in the branches.

As birthdays go, Magnus Carlsen's 26th will take some beating.

Donald Trump vowed to bring the nation together and said thank you to Ohio on Thursday, saying the state had heard history's call and helped him win the presidency, even though his supporters called for his former opponent Hillary Clinton to be put in jail.

A President-elect stuns the political world by picking his onetime archenemy to become a member of his Cabinet. The two men had been public rivals, and the new president could not forget the slights his nemesis had inflicted -- including initially refusing to release his delegates to the nominee at the party convention -- but he gives him the Cabinet post anyway.

Menacing black smoke hangs over the town of al-Qayyara. The air here is poison.

The child sex abuse scandal that has rocked the English football world has taken a new twist after a former player accused one of the world's biggest clubs of buying his silence.

Four weeks after the election, tensions between top operatives at the Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton campaigns erupted during a Harvard Kennedy School Institute of Politics discussion that was intended to record history by drawing out the internal deliberations of both campaigns.

The creators of the hit play 'Harry Potter and the Cursed Child' are in exclusive talks with the Ambassador Theatre Group to bring the show to The Lyric Theater in New York.

North Korea has furiously rejected United Nations sanctions, accusing Security Council members of being puppets of the United States.