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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.

John Kerry has said he feels like he is in a "parallel universe" when he listens to Russia, given that the gap between what Moscow says has happened and the facts of reality have so often been mismatched in Syria.

Seven gonorrhea patients in Hawaii are the first known US cases in which the sexually transmitted infection showed reduced susceptibility to the single available effective treatment option, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said today. The patients were diagnosed in April and May.

Three reasons why Turkey could be the biggest global challenge for the next US president.

The US Food and Drug Administration announced a challenge to the tech wizards of Silicon Valley this week: build an app to combat opioid overdoses. The 2016 Naloxone App Competition will run from Friday through October 7, and all submissions are welcome.

a 7,700-kilometer wall of trees, running through 11 countries along the southern frontier of the Sahara Desert.

Atlanta Mayor, Kasim Reed and Cleveland Pastor James Davis get into a fiery debate over GOP nominee Donald Trump's relationship with black voters.

After months of delays, Afghanistan government negotiators signed a peace deal Thursday with an insurgent faction led by one of the country's most notorious warlords.