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She was already the golden girl of judo -- now Majlinda Kelmendi has the medal to go with it. Her gold at the Rio 2016 Olympics is Kosovo's first of any type.

One Army helicopter pilot flew a mission for 10 hours, five of them while wounded, in a high-risk effort to rescue American hostages.

French fencer Enzo LeFort's phone appeared to fall out of his pocket while he was competing against Germany on Sunday in Rio.

Chad Copley, a North Carolina, man who said he was "on the neighborhood watch," killed Kouren-Rodney Thomas and said he was protecting his family, police said.

If current trends persist, it will take 228 years for black families to accumulate the same amount of wealth as whites, according to a report released this week from the Corporation for Economic Development and the Institute for Policy Studies. For Latino families, it will take 84 years.

Inspectors found a mechanical failure caused three children to plummet from a Ferris wheel at a Tennessee county fair, a police spokesman said Tuesday.

Serena Williams' reign as Olympic women's singles tennis champion came to a shuddering halt after a shock defeat by Ukraine's Elina Svitolina in Rio Tuesday.

Donald Trump announced Tuesday evening that his wife will hold a news conference "over the next couple of weeks" to address reports that she violated immigration laws when she first came to the U.S.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is in the Russian city of St Petersburg for a face-to-face summit with his counterpart, Vladimir Putin.

Iran's former hard-line leader is pressuring President Barack Obama to return billions of dollars in seized Iranian assets, though it's almost certain his appeals will go nowhere.

Michael D'Antonio says Trump's claim that Clinton wants to abolish Second Amendment is of a piece with his frequent use of "people are saying" to spread falsehoods

Instead of spending taxpayer money on political conventions this year, Eric Cantor writes that Congress correctly reallocated those funds toward medical research.

Hillary Clinton's campaign, seeing vulnerabilities for Donald Trump in Arizona and Georgia, says it plans to expand their political and organizing operations in the two states in the coming weeks, according to Democrats with knowledge of the plans.

The All Black legend won't play any further part after rupturing his Achilles tendon on the opening day of the men's competition in Rio.

Even as US diplomats were strongly urging Argentina's military to improve its human rights record during the country's so-called Dirty War, a top White House official argued against strongly punishing the junta for its crackdown on dissidents.

In an interview with CNN's Richard Quest, billionaire Carl Icahn says he's still supporting Donald Trump because the U.S. economy is in trouble and Trump has the best ideas to fix it.

Hillary Clinton has pulled clearly ahead in Pennsylvania and holds a slight lead over Donald Trump in Ohio, but the two are in a tight race in the crucial battleground of Florida, according to new Quinnipiac University polls of likely voters in the key swing states show.

Disney announced on Tuesday that it finalized a deal with BAMTech, a company that one day may help them create an ESPN streaming service.

Millions of Americans may be drinking water with unsafe levels of industrial chemicals, known as polyfluoroalkyl and perfluoroalkyl substances.