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President Barack Obama has taken a lot of criticism from political opponents over his rhetoric when it comes to terrorism. But on Wednesday at a CNN presidential town hall, he was asked to defend why he refuses to say "Islamic" terrorism to a Gold Star mother.

Its latest push is the league's first job fair specifically for women, planned for Orlando, Florida, just before the Super Bowl.

September was not a good month for Merrick Garland.

Congress cleared a bill Wednesday to fund the government and the federal response to Zika, avoiding a potentially embarrassing government shutdown just weeks before the election.

Donald Trump wanted to fire female employees he considered unattractive and replace them with better-looking women at a golf resort he owned, according to court documents from a 2012 lawsuit.

The short, scarce breaths had all but stopped by the time the paramedics arrived.

The victim was 16 when she started working at Chipotle (CMG) in late 2013 to earn extra money. Within weeks, she says her 26-year-old assistant manager started touching her breasts. He pretended it was an accident at first.

A section of roof lies on the platform after a New Jersey Transit train crashed at the Hoboken station on Thursday, September 29. One person was reported dead, and dozens of others were injured.

Outside of a Hillary Clinton rally at the University of New Hampshire Wednesday afternoon, a long line of people -- many of them backpack-wearing students -- wrapped around the block, and a man held a homemade sign that read: "If there were ever a time for a third party vote, the time is now."

A surprise deal by major oil producers to cut output is unlikely to make a big difference to the crazy low gas prices consumers have been enjoying at the pump.

Libertarian presidential nominee Gary Johnson was asked by MSNBC's Chris Matthews during a town hall forum to name his "favorite foreign leader." He struggled on live TV yet again.

America hit a milestone in 2016: The most female CEOs ever. There are now 27 women at the helm of S&P 500 companies.

When a teen allegedly opened fire at an elementary school playground in South Carolina, wounding three people, quick action by teachers and emergency responders helped save lives, authorities say.

For eight years, Brian Browne preserved an American flag in a storage trunk and the freezer of his Everett, Washington, home -- unaware it was a piece of history.

At least two children were shot Wednesday at an elementary school in Townville, South Carolina, Anderson County EMS Director Scott Stoller told CNN.

Highlights from President Obama's town hall in Fort Lee, Virginia moderated by Jake Tapper.

Agnes Nixon, a woman who brought years of drama to daytime TV as the creator of "All My Children" and "One Life to Live," has died. She was 93.

The FBI director is telling states to make sure they are on top of their voter registration systems, saying would-be hackers are "poking around."

The FBI has discovered attempted hacks of voter registration sites in more than a dozen states according to two law enforcement officials. CNN's Pamela Brown reports.

Hillary Clinton had a question for the energetic, young and diverse crowd she greeted at a North Carolina rally Tuesday: "Did anybody see that debate last night?"