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The Republican Party has officially named Donald Trump as its 2016 presidential nominee Tuesday evening, capping a raucous primary process that has divided the GOP.

A U.S- led coalition in Syria has killed more than 100 civilians since June and wounded dozens more in airstrikes in and around the ISIS-controlled city of Manbij, according to several human rights groups.

Across the south of Italy, unfinished foundations and concrete frames rise from a landscape of rolling hills and thick canopies of trees. Many look as though their building crews and cranes stepped off site only yesterday. Others as though they were abandoned decades ago.

Shortly after clinching the Republican nomination, Donald Trump said it was an experience he would "never ever forget."

Melania Trump's speech brouhaha has social media LOLing. CNN'S Jeanne Moos has the best tweets.

Shortly before the ambush that killed three law enforcement officers in Louisiana, the gunman was stalking a Baton Rouge police car with his rifle poised to shoot, police said.

I hail from the world of journalism, which has seen its fair share of plagiarism scandals in the past decade or so, starting with the Jayson Blair affair at The New York Times in 2003. But plagiarism in the news business is a different animal from what's being alleged of the speech Melania Trump delivered Monday night in Cleveland.

A police officer who was answering an armed disturbance call was shot Tuesday in Kansas City, Kansas, police spokesman Thomas Tomasic told reporters.

A north Texas police department is mourning the loss of its K-9 partner, which died after a pursuit with a suspect.

In previous election cycles, the Republican presidential nominee could count on a cadre of conservative media outlets to provide cover. But 2016 is not a typical election cycle.

A crowd of onlookers snapping pictures of a mountain goat chased the animal to its death in the small Alaska town of Seward.

Former President George W. Bush fretted to a group of former aides and advisers in April that he was worried he could be the "last Republican president."

The US military is doing "prudent planning" in case it needs to move its anti-ISIS operations out of Incirlik Air Base in southern Turkey following the country's failed coup, several US defense officials told CNN Tuesday.

Donald Trump is rightly "furious" about the controversy enveloping his wife, Melania, after her speech on GOP opening night -- but he should be angry at a lot more than that and ought to be kicking himself the hardest.

On the night of February 12, 2016, Harry Fisher spent a few hours online: He scrolled through Facebook, checked his email. He searched Google Maps for nearby canyons and read through the lesson plan for a Sunday school class he would not live to teach.

Amid news of former Fox News host Gretchen Carlson's lawsuit against Ailes, Kelly reportedly has also come forward claiming harassment.

Over the past decade, the rate of new HIV infections has increased in 74 countries, according to a new study presented Tuesday at the 21st International AIDS conference in Durban, South Africa.

Turkey has requested the extradition of preacher Fethullah Gulen from the United States, Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım said in parliament Tuesday.

Trump's campaign has no plans to fire anybody on the campaign or to take any disciplinary action against anyone for the Melania Trump speech plagiarism controversy, CNN learned Tuesday.

Who said it: Melania Trump or Twilight Sparkle from "My Little Pony"?