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A 5-year-old boy died Sunday afternoon after being struck by lightning on North Carolina's Outer Banks, said Chief Ralph Melton of Currituck County Fire and EMS.

Donald Trump rejects a claim by the father of an Army captain who died in Baghdad that the GOP nominee has sacrificed nothing and no one.

Muslim community leaders have refused to bury one of the terrorists who killed a Catholic priest this week in northern France, according to the president of a local Muslim organization.

Whenever I think about how we can stop teens from texting and driving, I think back to an interview I did with the Dunn family of Roxbury, New Jersey.

Khizr Khan, the father of a U.S. soldier slain in Iraq in 2004, said that Donald Trump "is totally unfit for the leadership of this country."

Video shows a woman in her car being caught up in a flash flood in downtown Ellicott City, Maryland. A group of men created a human chain to reach the woman and pull her to safety.

A U.S. skydiver came back to earth in spectacular fashion Saturday night -- netting a world's first in the process.

It was an afternoon for public displays of affection in Canada as Novak Djokovic beat Kei Nishikori in the Rogers Cup final -- then proceeded to orchestrate a several thousand-strong group hug in the stands.

Sara Lewis: Firefly populations, which illuminate and enchant on summer evenings, are threatened by development, light pollution, pesticides and commercial harvesting

Khizr Khan, the father of a deceased Muslim U.S. soldier, slams Donald Trump, claiming the GOP nominee lacks empathy and a moral compass.

Fethullah Gulen, the reclusive cleric accused by Turkey of hatching a military coup attempt, concedes that his supporters could have been involved in the putsch but again denied any direct connection.

The making of the 2016 Rio Olympic and Paralympic medals is a mix of art and science.

Charles Koch, frustrated by questions about whether he could support Democrat Hillary Clinton in the presidential race, on Sunday deemed that idea a "blood libel."

He started a debate over the debates, when, in a tweet Friday he accused Clinton of trying to rig them. Is Trump trying to squirm out of the debates?

Terminix may be close to paying a Delaware family $87 million to keep them from suing over a horrifying poisoning while they were vacationing in the U.S. Virgin Islands.

The Navy has sent congressional notification that it intends to name a new oiler ship Harvey Milk, a US Navy official confirmed Friday to CNN.

An International Olympic Committee panel will have the final say on Russian athletes' eligibility to compete at Rio 2016, says a spokesman for the Olympic organization.

A hot air balloon believed to be carrying 16 people caught fire in the air and crashed in central Texas, killing everybody on board, federal authorities report. The deadliest hot air balloon crash happened in 2013; 19 people died in Egypt.

Jack White's Third Man Records have successfully played a vinyl record in space for the first time.

In an interview with CNN's Jim Acosta, Alabama Jeff Sessions discusses the controversy over Trump's comments on Russia and the DNC hack.