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It was the year of the Olympics, the election ... and Pokemon Go.

A sheriff's deputy in San Antonio, Texas, died after her car fell into a giant sinkhole while she was on her way to work.

A South Carolina mom fights back against internet trolling after a photo of her daughter with Hillary Clinton becomes a vicious meme.

Some of the hottest products of the year cost well under $100, from gaming consoles and VR headsets to drones.

President-elect Donald Trump is interviewing ExxonMobil (XOM) Chairman and CEO Rex Tillerson on Tuesday to consider him for the secretary of state position, according to one Trump aide.

President-elect Donald Trump is making one thing clear about the Supreme Court: He wants to do more than just solidify the conservative bent on the bench.

The U.S. trade deficit grew at the fastest pace in 19 months, rising a sharp 18% in October from September to $42.6 billion.

New York Mayor Bill de Blasio said he's "sick to my stomach" over an incident in which a Muslim off-duty NYPD officer was reportedly threatened over the weekend by a man who said, "I will cut your throat, go back to your country."

A budding musician. A truck-lover and bowling alley denizen. A singer whose adoring fans called him Nex Luguolo.

A 7-year-old Syrian girl, who captured the world's attention with heartbreaking Twitter posts about the bombing of Aleppo, has reappeared on social media after her account was deleted

Lady Gaga visited a center for homeless LGBT youth and revealed that she suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder.

India's police say they are seriously investigating allegations that an American woman was drugged and raped by a group of men in her five-star hotel room in the country's capital earlier this year.

The five world leaders stand close together, all firmly at the helm of their respective nations, which together could lay claim to leading the free world.

The US military this month will return to Japan's government more than 9,800 acres of land it has held since World War II, Secretary of Defense Ash Carter said Tuesday.

A Texas elector said Monday that enough is enough -- he will not cast his vote for President-elect Donald Trump as part of the Electoral College process on December 19.

When we read, it's very easy for us to tell individual words apart: In written language, spaces are used to separate words from one another.

Bana Alabed, the 7-year-old bearing witness to the siege of eastern Aleppo with a flurry of posts, is back on Twitter after her account appeared to have been deleted.

If you think your tween or teen spends too many hours online, you might need to look in the mirror before you dish out screen time criticisms. According to a new survey, parents spend as much time plugged in each day as their teens and three hours more per day than their tweens.

Drivers who are one to two hours shy of the recommended seven hours of nightly sleep may nearly double their risk for a crash, suggests a new AAA study.