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Khizr Khan, the father of a US soldier slain in Iraq in 2004, said Sunday that Donald Trump has a "black soul."

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

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

By the end of Republican and Democratic conventions it seemed like the nation's most powerful political parties were speaking about two different countries.

So now it's official. With the conventions over, it is notable that the nominees of both major parties are from New York. After many decades when the city and the state have been relegated to secondary status in presidential politics, today two New Yorkers are at the top of the major party tickets.

One of the big themes of the concluding session of the Democratic convention Thursday was that Hillary Clinton would be a strong and effective commander in chief, while Donald Trump would most decidedly not be.

One person was killed and four were injured early Sunday in two separate shootings in a crowded area of downtown Austin, Texas, police said.

The Powerball jackpot was worth an estimated $478 million.

It's not something you see often at the scene of a fire -- a firefighter giving a cat oxygen and saving its life.

Suzanne Wright, the co-founder of one of the largest autism advocacy organizations, Autism Speaks, has died, the nonprofit said Saturday. She was 69.

Prosecutors have dismissed murder charges against a man accused in the death of Chandra Levy, a Washington, D.C., intern whose 2001 disappearance created national headlines.

A hot air balloon with 16 people aboard crashed Saturday morning in central Texas after catching fire in flight, FAA public information officer Lynn Lunsford said.

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