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As an anthem, "The Star-Spangled Banner" has never been a unanimous fit. Kaepernick is far from the first athlete to question it.

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Both Republican and Democratic incumbents face challenges from their respective party's insurgent wing in Tuesday primaries, as GOP Sen. John McCain and Democrat Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz battle to retain their spots in Congress.

ISIS spokesman Mohammad al-Adnani has been killed, the terror group's Amaq news agency and a statement from the group said.

Paget Brewster's brief return to "Criminal Minds" will become an extended stay.

A man is offering a $5,000 reward for "crooks" who stole Trump signs from his yard. CNN's Jeanne Moos has the details.

Less than two days after the US Navy revealed a third mechanical breakdown in a year of one of its $360 million littoral combat ships, the service has announced a fourth.

Take a look at some selfies taken by celebrities during the month of August.

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The senior US military commander in the Middle East said Tuesday that he is "very focused" on Iran's activities in the Persian Gulf after a series of tense encounters between US and Iranian military vessels.

The global banking system is (still) under attack.

Sometimes when a complex mess suffers an added complication, it can in fact make matters simpler -- such is the case in northern Syria now.

What would you do to avoid paying more taxes? Legally, that is.

Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson has filed administrative charges seeking to fire six officers involved in the fatal shooting of Chicago teenager Laquan McDonald in 2014, Chicago police said Tuesday.

A five-day-old newborn peers out from a pink blanket. His dark, almond-shaped eyes stare directly at the camera, his tiny hand tucked underneath his chin.

Nine bodies were found in a home for the elderly in the town of Iwaizumi in Iwate Prefecture, which suffered flooding following Typhoon Lionrock, police tell CNN.

CNN Terrorism analyst Paul Cruickshank looks at the announced death of ISIS spokesman and deputy Mohammad al-Adnani.

One caller reports that a friend just texted him to say he'd been shot and was in the bathroom at Pulse in Orlando. Another man calls to say he safely fled after gunshots erupted at the popular nightclub.

Joe Sutter, who led the engineering team that developed the world's original jumbo jet in the 1960s, died Tuesday at the age of 95, Boeing said.