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It was a wet, windy and wild farewell to the 2016 Olympic Games as Rio de Janeiro bowed out in a storm of samba and rain inside the Maracana Stadium.

The US swept aside Serbia 96-66 Sunday to claim its third straight Olympic men's basketball crown, and the final gold medal of Rio 2016.

See photos from the Olympics closing ceremony in Rio de Janeiro.

Sea Port Products Corp is voluntarily recalling a batch of its scallops after at least 206 people became sick with hepatitis A, prompting an investigation by the US Food and Drug Administration and Centers for Disease control and Prevention.

A Tyrannosaurus rex skull was discovered in Montana and was sent to the Burke Museum in Seattle. There are only 15 known T. rex skulls in the world.

For Frank Ocean fans, the wait is over.

While much of the debate over America's security policy during this presidential campaign has centered on the response to specific attacks -- Brussels, Orlando, Nice -- a remarkable thing happened earlier this month. Quietly, without much attention, the Obama administration released an important policy document into the public domain, one that has previously been classified at the highest levels, but which was released with surprisingly few redactions.

At an average resale price of $520, tickets to see the women's final on September 10 are only 18% cheaper than the men's final -- which is the closest the tournaments have come in price since SeatGeek began tracking the numbers in 2011.

Olympian Ryan Lochte spoke with NBC's Matt Lauer about his story of being robbed at gunpoint at a gas station in Rio de Janeiro.

CNN's Kate Bolduan has trouble containing her emotions as she reports on the story of Omran Daqneesh, the Syrian boy pulled from the war zone in Aleppo, Syria.

After being arrested, Logan Younger was ejected from a police cruiser when it crashed on the way to a detention center.

Saturday, which featured track and field events and Matt Lauer's interview with Ryan Lochte, was the lowest-rated night of the games yet.

At least 23 people died when two suicide car bombs struck a government building in Somalia on Sunday, authorities said.

A dramatic crash video captures a baby thrown from a car in Kentucky. The baby survives the crash.

Filipino President Rodrigo Duterte has threatened to leave the United Nations in response to criticism of his approach to drug crime since taking office.

The U.S. men's basketball team missed having NBA sideline reporter Craig Sager at the Olympics in Rio. So they sent him a special message during the broadcast at the start of the games.

A man is in custody after five people, including a pregnant woman, were found dead at a home in southwest Alabama.

Former Democratic presidential candidate Martin O'Malley on Sunday chided ex-Donald Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski over the GOP nominee's immigration policies, saying the US isn't an "only-for-white Americans sort of country."

Elizabeth Smart speaks out about the role pornography played in her kidnapping in 2002. Her kidnapper was sentenced to life in prison.

Iraq has hanged 36 people for taking part in the massacre of as many as 1,700 men in ISIS-controlled territory in 2014.