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Chance the Rapper couldn't contain his enthusiasm when Beyonce crashed his backstage interview at the MTV Video Music Awards.

A prominent African-American pastor who supports Donald Trump apologized Tuesday for a tweet featuring a cartoon of Hillary Clinton in blackface, but said he stood by the message he was trying to convey that Democrats take black voters for granted.

Just about every day, Angela Estes, a New York mom, finds herself asking her 5-year-old son, "Why are you being so defiant?"

After a 10-car pileup in Binghamton, New York, a group of heroic strangers worked together to pull a woman from her burning car.

Obviously it's not THAT Vladimir Putin, because the President of Russia has never gone HAM in a West Palm Beach Publix.

Former Rep. Anthony Weiner, who torpedoed his own political career five years ago with a sexting scandal and whose wife is Hillary Clinton's closest adviser, has deleted his Twitter account after allegedly sending sexually suggestive photos again.

How exactly did a lightning strike kill 323 reindeer in central Norway? Becky Anderson and Chad Myers discuss what happened.

The mayor of a seaside town on the French Riviera is sticking by his town's burkini ban, telling beachgoers, "if you don't want to live the way we do, don't come."

Novak Djokovic dismissed fears of serious injury after winning the opening match of his title defense at the US Open.

When Lucy, the world's most well-known fossil, was discovered sticking out of a shallow Ethiopian stream bed in 1974, she provided new insight about life for early human ancestors 3.18 million years ago. The image of her skeleton -- which is estimated to be 40% complete and considered the best representation of her species, Australopithecus afarensis -- became iconic.

Chicago is on track to cross a disturbing threshold and top the number of shootings and homicides in the city in 2015.

India's tourism minister is furiously backpedaling after suggesting that women who visit India shouldn't wear skirts for their own safety.

Barbra Streisand is a self-admitted "detail freak."

Gene Wilder, who brought a wild-eyed desperation to a series of memorable and iconic comedy roles in the 1970s and 1980s, has died, his lawyer, Eric Weissmann, said.

Zika continues its march around the world.

In an interview with Larry King in 2002, Gene Wilder explained that as much as he loves acting and art, he hates show business.

The US Navy has received an attack submarine sponsored by first lady Michelle Obama and named for her home state, the Navy announced Monday.

When Netflix's "Narcos" debuted, it seemed to come with a built-in expiration date. Its central figure is drug kingpin Pablo Escobar, who lived a brutal life and died a relatively early death -- at some point he would die and that would be that. But that only makes the second season of this Netflix series more riveting, a morality tale that resonates far beyond its time, place and characters.

The Icelandic Meteorological Office is on alert for a possible eruption from the country's largest volcano, Katla, after two earthquakes rattled the region.