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Like many Americans, you probably think you're pretty charitable. Perhaps you donate money to the needy or ill, give away your old clothes, volunteer at your child's school or participate in holiday gift drives in December.

As thousands of Hurricane Matthew victims return to their homes, they're also coming back to a host of potential dangers.

In the second presidential debate, things got ugly almost immediately after Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton took the stage.

Tiger Woods has put his long-awaited return to competitive golf on hold.

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, never shy to weigh in on the controversies of the day, said she thinks "it's really dumb" for San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick and others to refuse to stand for the national anthem.

Trump issued a big threat to Clinton: I am willing to cross any line to make the next 30 days of your life hell.

Yes, there's actually corn in it. Corn syrup, if that counts.

Gayle Lemmon says the way powerful men abuse women is an open and not at all well-kept secret. The only question now is whether the Trump tapes will help make it stop.

Peter Bergen: It was sobering to watch Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton debate national security issues on Sunday night, and see Trump falling back on a familiar mélange of empty slogans and false claims (a.k.a. lies) to describe what he would do as the nation's next leader.

The concept of pansexuality has been around since the days of Sigmund Freud, but it took a shout-out from Miley Cyrus to bring it back into vogue for the 21st century.

House Speaker Paul Ryan tells House Republicans that he won't defend trump and will focus the next 29 days on keeping the House majority.

Jean-Atan Cadet and twin brother Jonas were welcomed into the world as the hemisphere's poorest nation embarks on another painful recovery.

Ryan Lochte will definitely be ready for that first dance at his wedding reception.

People asking why Hillary Clinton didn't land a killer blow on Donald Trump in Sunday night's debate are asking the wrong question. This wasn't a defining event -- debates rarely are.

A Syrian refugee detained by police in Germany had links to the ISIS militant group and was planning a bomb attack "with Islamist motives," German officials said Monday.

The first clowns were spotted in South Carolina in August 2016, but since then, sightings have been reported around the world.

The sinister clown scare is spreading worldwide.

During Sunday's town hall debate, Donald Trump criticized the Clintons for their treatment of women -- a far cry from what he's said in the past.

Ken Bone, the St. Louis man who went viral after attending the second presidential debate, speaks to CNN's Carol Costello about his new-found fame.