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Gabby Douglas received backlash for not placing her right hand over her heart during the national anthem at the Olympics during the medal ceremony.

For black women in America, the past several years have been deeply painful. Not that it's ever been a joy ride, exactly. We just thought this journey was getting a little smoother, that we could drop our guard a bit and just live.

Team USA has reigned supreme in women's Olympic soccer since Athens in 2004, but there will be a new champion this year in Rio after Sweden knocked out the defending champion on penalties at the quarterfinal stage in Brasilia Friday.

Donald Trump on Friday attempted to walk back the widely criticized false claim he repeatedly made over the last two days that President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton were "co-founders" of ISIS -- saying he was being sarcastic.

A Chinese swimmer has failed a drugs test at the Rio Olympics, according to China's state-run news agency Xinhua, citing the China Swimming Association (CSA).

Bill and Hillary Clinton get paid a lot of money to talk.

A lobbying group is preventing the government from imposing federal safety standards and regulations for amusement parks. CNN's Jake Tapper reports.

President Barack Obama once again proved his eclectic taste in music, releasing two summer playlists Thursday.

Donald Trump said in an interview Thursday that he would support trying US citizens suspected of terrorism in military tribunals -- a controversial proposal that would likely be challenged as unconstitutional.

Donald Trump's statements on bringing back waterboarding and trying US citizens in Guantanamo Bay have raised questions about when the military can refuse the president's orders. CNN's Barbara Starr reports.

Sport is not a level playing field. It never will be.

Actor Thomas Gibson has been fired from CBS's long-running procedural "Criminal Minds," following an on-set altercation with one of the show's writers.

A man in India is hit by a vehicle. Not only the driver, but numerous people just pass by while he lies in the street bleeding. CNN's Isa Soares has the shocking story.

Now that Roger Ailes is gone, Fox News will be led by a pair of executives, Bill Shine and Jack Abernethy.

Hillary Clinton's tax return shows $10.6 million in income -- and puts pressure on Donald Trump.

Esperanza was waiting for her cousins outside her high school in Mexico one day, when a strange man drove up in a car, forced her inside with him and sped away. At that moment, Esperanza had in effect become a sex slave.

At least 22 customers and 2 flight crew members aboard a JetBlue plane have been taken to a hospital for evaluation after the flight experienced rough turbulence, according to Katherine McMillan, JetBlue spokeswoman.

The Greenland shark could live as long as 400 years, making it the world's longest-living invertebrate.

I was a brand-new lawyer at a small firm in Richmond, Virginia. And fresh out of law school, as the rookie on the team, the pro-bono cases came to me. That's how I met Lorraine.