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"Designated Survivor" gives Americans weary of the vitriolic presidential race a Commander in Chief to feel good about. It just takes a massive terrorist attack that wipes out most of the government to get him into office.

The nation's billionaires -- energized by a presidential race heading down to the wire and led to believe that their money can tip the balance -- are digging deep.

Blink and you'll miss it -- the Venturi Buckeye Bullet 3 has beaten the world record for an electric vehicle, at a cool average speed of 341.4 mph, according to the French automobile company.

John King is at the magic wall to explore when presidential debates affect the outcome of a race. And when they don't.

Bangkok's back!

NAACP President Cornell William Brooks derided Donald Trump Wednesday, saying his recent comments about African-Americans were "an insulting degree of ignorance and/or insensitivity."

A cafeteria employee at a Pennsylvania school resigned after a new lunch policy, which denied students a hot meal if they owed money, was implemented.

It has happened again. Two lives taken. Families devastated. Communities outraged. Two officers who probably wish they had been anywhere but where they were.

Puerto Rico has gone dark.

Protests over Charlotte police shooting turn ugly again. CNN's Boris Sanchez and Ed Lavandera report from the scene.

Public defender Toussaint Romain put himself between lines of protesters in Charlotte, North Carolina, in an attempt to get people to calm down. He speaks to CNN's Boris Sanchez.

During an appearance on "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert," first lady Michelle Obama did an impersonation of President Barack Obama at the dinner table.

On Thursday, Hillary Clinton appeared on comedian Zach Galifianakis' Funny or Die web series "Between Two Ferns." Hilarity ensued.

Hillary Clinton faces off against Donald Trump on the debate stage for the first time on Monday night, in a crucial prime-time event that could alter the narrative of the presidential election just six weeks out from Election Day.

A self-described "professional traveler," Kristin Beck knows the airport security drill.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said Thursday that Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is wrong in his assessment of stop-and-frisk, a policy that allows police officers to stop and pat down individuals they deem suspicious.

Produced in concert with Major League Baseball, "Pitch" features an intriguing premise, a slick pilot and a winning lead in Kylie Bunbury. The question is whether this drama about the first woman to play professional baseball has the right stuff to survive in TV's big leagues.

It is not every day you wake up to the sound of pots and pans crashing on the kitchen floor. It's even more peculiar when the culprit is a lost Humboldt penguin.

Season 3 of "Empire" premiered Wednesday night with a big reveal about a character's death.

In the past three months, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump have put forth new tax and spending proposals and revised or clarified some of their previous ones.