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Hurricane Matthew is pummeling the Bahamas. And its next stop could be the United States.

Sitting beside a neatly made crib, 88-year-old Vivian Guzofsky held up a baby doll dressed in puppy dog pajamas.

When you think you're letting your mind wander for a few minutes, your brain is actually lighting up with a range of emotions, according to a new study.

Former first lady Jackie Kennedy Onassis has long been immortalized in books and museums and as a fashion icon. Her classic elegance served as inspiration for fashion designers, first lady successors and women across the globe.

Normally, science advances by trial and error. When an experiment fails, researchers question assumptions, formulate new ideas and then design better studies. But the field of nutrition is having a hard time of this when it comes to the low-fat diet debacle.

Looking for ways to keep fit and healthy and even live longer? A game of golf could be the answer.

Humans can only live so long and we're reaching the natural biological limit, researchers say in a report published in Nature.

If you're a young country aiming to make an impact in the world of sport then an Olympic gold medal and World Cup debut offer the perfect start.

At a campaign rally in Reno, Donald Trump pronounces "Nevada" incorrectly while explaining to the crowd how to pronounce it.

Seventeen alleged members of a global trafficking ring have been charged with transporting hundreds of women from Thailand to the United States for commercial sex purposes.

Image is everything, some say, and wine is no exception.

It just had to be clowns, didn't it? We couldn't indulge in some good old-fashioned nationwide panic about, say, zombies or sexy teenage vampires. Nope, it had to be clowns and it had to be mere weeks before Halloween.

Rosa Linda Román and her family poured their dreams into their new home -- a boat docked in West Palm Beach, Florida.

Good Thursday morning. The great American clown freak out continues. And we don't live in a post-racial society after all. Here's what else you need to know to Get Up to Speed and Out the Door.

As authorities scramble to find ways to prevent the next mass terror plot, a new technology could change those investigations: high-speed analytics aimed at helping law enforcement find terrorist plotters -- and stop them before they attack.

Our interview with Adam Smith is interrupted by a raid from environmental health inspectors.

Terrorism, human trafficking, and corruption are creating a more dangerous continent, which in turn is preventing better governance, a new report revealed.

Indonesian police have arrested a man who they say has confessed to broadcasting a pornographic film onto a large electronic billboard on a busy road in Jakarta.

Typhoon Chaba left a trail of destruction in South Korea Wednesday, flipping cars, flooding homes and killing at least six people.

Australian-born singer Kylie Minogue and her fiancé, actor Joshua Sasse, are taking a stand in support of same-sex marriage.