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For more than two years, a bipedal bear nicknamed Pedals fascinated residents of a largely rural section of northern New Jersey.

Armed assailants have abducted a US aid worker from outside his home in Niger, killing his bodyguard and a police officer before fleeing north toward neighboring Mali, a Niger government source tells CNN.

During a rally in North Carolina, Donald Trump said the election is "a rigged deal" and the allegations against him are "fabrications and false."

NBC is about to pay millions of dollars to Billy Bush to stop hosting the 9 a.m. hour of "Today" show.

Donald Trump says that both candidates should take a drug test before the third and final presidential debate during a rally in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.

"You're just throwing away your vote." Dan Mizener of Cleveland, Ohio, has heard that many times since he told friends that he's voting for Gary Johnson, the libertarian candidate. He used to get a lot of flak. Now people are calling him with a lot of questions.

Donald Trump's campaign advisers want him to focus on the issues, but the Republican nominee is continuing to talk about the allegations of sexual assault and sexual misconduct that have been leveled against him this week.

While on a cage diving trip just off the coast of Mexico near Guadalupe Island, one man captured the intense moment when a shark ripped into a cage containing a diver. Click here to watch the full video.

The countdown to retake the Iraqi city of Mosul from ISIS has begun, but the fight for Hawija -- another ISIS-controlled city in nearby Kirkuk province -- is among many other battles that are looming.

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China is set to release the last known prisoner of the 1989 Tiananmen Square uprising, according to Dui Hua, a San Francisco-based human rights organization.

A six-week-old girl died Thursday morning after falling with her mother down an elevator shaft in a Brooklyn, New York, apartment building, according to police.

Hang Son Doong in Vietnam is the largest known cave in the world. Photographer Ryan Deboodt took a drone inside to capture this spectacular footage.

Surveillance camera video at a hotel in Michigan caught the moment the clerk stopped an armed robbery.

Arianne Zucker, the actress who was the subject of lewd remarks made by Donald Trump during a 2005 "Access Hollywood" shoot, said Friday that the tape's release has caused pain for her family.

A photographer and former model on Friday accused Donald Trump of reaching up her skirt without permission at a crowded New York City nightclub.

A Connecticut judge has dismissed a lawsuit that families of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims had filed against a gun manufacturer.

The actress on the 2005 Trump tape, Arianne Zucker, spoke with CNN's Anderson Cooper about what it was like when she saw the video for the first time.

A hacked email published by WikiLeaks this week shows that Democratic strategists -- including top political allies of Hillary Clinton -- were gauging voter attitudes about the Muslim faith of Barack Obama's father during Clinton's unsuccessful fight for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination.

Jasmine Thompson couldn't sleep, and who could blame her. Floodwaters fed by Hurricane Matthew were slowly rising on the grounds of her apartment complex. The sound of the rushing water kept her awake -- and worried.