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It turns out Donald Trump is a politician, after all.

Two American F-22s on patrol over Hasakah, Syria, flew within a mile of two Syrian Su-24 fighter jets and "encouraged" them to leave Friday, a US defense official told CNN.

The 2016 Paralympics in Rio is facing unparalleled challenges, budget cuts and the unexpected closure of facilities but will go ahead as planned, the International Paralympic Committee said Friday.

Art and animal flesh collide in "Making Beauty," Elpida Hadzi-Vasileva's first major UK solo exhibition, at the Djanogly Gallery in Nottingham.

Usain Bolt confirmed his status as one of the greatest Olympic athletes of all-time Friday as he anchored Jamaica to 4x100-meter relay gold at Rio 2016.

An interracial couple was attacked after a self-proclaimed white supremacist saw them kissing outside a Washington restaurant, police said.

She always insisted it was luck that led to her appointment as the first woman on the US Supreme Court. But Sandra Day O'Connor was ready for her luck. She demonstrated that 35 years ago this summer when Reagan administration lawyers flew to Arizona to interview her as one of several candidates for a court vacancy.

North Korea said its diplomat who recently defected to South Korea is a "criminal" who had been under investigation for "intentionally leaking secrets, embezzling state property" and a "sex offense."

Life has already changed for four-time Olympic gold medalist gymnast Simone Biles.

Olympic fans might want to look away now as there are just three days to go at the 2016 Games in Rio de Janeiro.

To a fortunate many, war is an abstraction and the suffering it brings, though easy to understand, is hard to truly imagine. It's one of the reasons war photography and images of conflict are so essential. They bring these concepts into blinding focus and deny us the luxury of looking away.

He said he accepted responsibility for his role in the case and had "learned some valuable lessons."

Who is Usain Bolt?

It's not just about police killing black men. It's deeper than that.

When Massachusetts law enforcement surrounded the house of a 31-year-old suspected drug dealer Thursday, the person in the home didn't initially match the description.

Two CNN political commentators argue over Donald Trump's comments to African-Americans.

I am one of four adopted kids -- three of us mixed race and one, Vietnamese -- raised by white parents in Milwaukee, the nation's most segregated city.

Matthew Bissonnette, the former Navy SEAL who participated in the raid that killed Osama bin Laden and wrote a tell-all book about it, has agreed to pay the US government all past and future proceeds from the best-seller after the Department of Justice said he failed to have a draft reviewed by the government.

Kasey Simmons loves to make people smile. But Tuesday, the 32-year-old waiter was the one beaming.

Jeffrey Wood didn't kill anyone. Everybody, including the prosecuting attorney, agrees.