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Officials are starting to question four US Olympic swimmers' stories about being robbed at gun point in Rio. CNN's Steve Nannes reports.

Right-wing media enabled Donald Trump's political rise. Now it's taking a lead role in his presidential campaign.

Trump's hiring of Breitbart News executive chairman Steve Bannon is a signal that nothing is off-limits between now and November 8.

Univision might be acquiring Gawker Media for $135 million, but that doesn't mean that it will end up owning the website that gave the company its name.

The last remaining portion of Las Vegas' famed Riviera Hotel and Casino was imploded in order to make way for new development.

While the medal podiums fill and rousing cheers echo around the Olympic stadiums in Rio, the homicide squad doesn't get the night off. Especially not in the violent slum area of Baixada Fluminense.

For the second time in two months, Donald Trump has installed new leadership in his campaign. But here's a little secret: it ain't the staff. Never is.

Hillary Clinton is very fond of one number: 10 million.

If inspiration is the first step in travel, the journey starts here.

A distraught college student attacked a couple in their Florida home, stabbing them to death and biting the face of the male victim, authorities said.

The Cold War is suddenly back as a hot topic in American politics.

Hundreds of passengers were rescued Wednesday from a burning ferry off Puerto Rico.

The search for the kidnapped son of the world's most notorious drug lord has been narrowed to four states in Mexico, a senior Mexican law enforcement official tells CNN.

Go ahead. Admit it. If you are a Western woman who watched Olympic swimmer Fu Yuanhui tell the world that she was having her period but that it was no excuse for losing, you were shocked that such a frank, public, feminist comment came from a Chinese woman, of all people.

What was meant as a joke about Usain Bolt and Ellen DeGeneres swiftly went awry on Twitter.

Amidst the billions of stars in the Milky Way, astronomers have witnessed the evolution of one as it exploded in what's known as a classical nova after hibernating for years, according to a new study (PDF). It is the first time the transition of a white dwarf star with a low and unstable mass-transfer rate to a classical nova eruption has been observed, study author Przemek Mróz said.

For anyone who wants a Republican in the White House in 2017, the situation looks bleak.

Donald Trump shook up his campaign for the second time this summer, appointing pollster Kellyanne Conway as his new campaign manager on Wednesday.

CNN's Nick Paton Walsh sees firsthand what Rio's homicide detectives have to deal with when trying to solve murders in this Olympic city.

Walking down the aisle on your wedding day is something all brides-to-be dream about. But the actual walking part is what a Georgia woman focused on when she got married.