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It's one of the loneliest, most exclusive clubs in America. Among the nation's wealthiest Americans -- known as the Top 1% -- only a very small percentage are black.

The darkened ballroom is hit by a barrage of flashing lights and a thunderous musical score that sounds like a call to battle.

After hanging up mid-sentence on a caller, a Houston 911 call center operator was heard on a recording saying, "Ain't nobody got time for this. For real," according to charging documents.

The kidnap of 276 schoolgirls by Boko Haram in 2014 has prompted international military action and massive campaigns. Take a look at the key moments.

"You suck." "You're worthless." "What's wrong with you?"

Moments before her father accepted his party's nomination, Ivanka Trump appeared on the stage in Cleveland, defending him as "colorblind and gender neutral," imploring would-be supporters to judge Donald Trump "by his results."

Donald Trump has reached his moment of reckoning -- and it is hard to imagine how his campaign will regain its footing with just 26 days to Election Day.

Donald Trump cast himself in almost messianic terms Thursday in Florida, describing the presidential race as "a struggle for the survival of our nation" and vowing to win the White House despite all the "slings and arrows" being hurled in his direction.

A trio of state polls released this week show Hillary Clinton's northern "blue wall" holding, as she carries commanding leads across a series of key Rust Belt states.

Take a look at 34 photos of the week from October 7 through October 13.

After the leaked 2005 tape of Donald Trump's lewd comments, Ivanka Trump is back on the trail to help him gain back women voters. CNN's Dana Bash reports.

In a state that has lost a third of its manufacturing jobs since 2000, Trump's message got people's attention.

Donald Trump on Thursday slammed "vicious" reports that he had allegedly groped women, saying they were were "pure fiction," "outright lies" and promised to provide evidence to prove they were untrue.

At 115 years old, Eida could be Syria's oldest refugee after she successfully escaped her war-torn homeland.

After traveling from Syria to Greece with an adopted family, Eida Karmi hopes to see her actual family again, who lives in Germany.

King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand, who died Thursday aged 88, reigned through an era of rising prosperity and frequent political turmoil.

Funerals are often uplifting occasions in Ghana, where it is widely believed that death is the beginning of an afterlife, and the deceased should receive a rapturous send off. A tradition has emerged within this culture of "proverb coffins" (abebuu adekai), which pay tribute to the occupant with a personalized and often spectacular design.

Donald Trump's star has entered the supernova phase of this cosmically weird campaign season.

Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr., head of the world's largest evangelical campus, said Donald Trump told him he has email evidence proving women making accusations of touching them inappropriately and without consent are lying.