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Image is everything, some say, and wine is no exception.

It just had to be clowns, didn't it? We couldn't indulge in some good old-fashioned nationwide panic about, say, zombies or sexy teenage vampires. Nope, it had to be clowns and it had to be mere weeks before Halloween.

Rosa Linda Román and her family poured their dreams into their new home -- a boat docked in West Palm Beach, Florida.

Good Thursday morning. The great American clown freak out continues. And we don't live in a post-racial society after all. Here's what else you need to know to Get Up to Speed and Out the Door.

As authorities scramble to find ways to prevent the next mass terror plot, a new technology could change those investigations: high-speed analytics aimed at helping law enforcement find terrorist plotters -- and stop them before they attack.

Our interview with Adam Smith is interrupted by a raid from environmental health inspectors.

Terrorism, human trafficking, and corruption are creating a more dangerous continent, which in turn is preventing better governance, a new report revealed.

Indonesian police have arrested a man who they say has confessed to broadcasting a pornographic film onto a large electronic billboard on a busy road in Jakarta.

Typhoon Chaba left a trail of destruction in South Korea Wednesday, flipping cars, flooding homes and killing at least six people.

Australian-born singer Kylie Minogue and her fiancé, actor Joshua Sasse, are taking a stand in support of same-sex marriage.

Turkey's newspapers this week documented the deep cracks appearing inside the treasury room of Istanbul's Topkapi Palace -- one of the country's top tourism destinations and once the home of Ottoman sultans. While older cracks had been covered with concrete, "Hurriyet" reported that parts of this iconic structure risk total collapse as a "result of years of neglect of historical heritage."

A suspect is in custody after a Los Angeles County sheriff's sergeant dead was shot dead Wednesday after responding to a burglary call, authorities said.

As hundreds of thousands of people potentially in the path of Hurricane Matthew fled inland Wednesday, not everyone was evacuating.

A majority of Americans say relations between blacks and whites in the US have worsened under President Barack Obama, according to a new CNN/ORC poll.

Embattled blood-testing firm Theranos is downsizing.

Can't take your eyes off Tim Kaine's eyebrows? CNN's Jeanne Moos reports on the ups and downs of his brows.

A government contractor was arrested in August for allegedly stealing top secret intelligence, the Department of Justice announced Wednesday.

A top Russian official strongly denied Wednesday a report that Moscow may have been behind the alleged drugging of two US diplomats in St. Petersburg and suggested instead that the pair may simply have been drunk.

John Peck, a Marine veteran and quadruple amputee, says that he plans to pursue a culinary career with his new arms.

Laura Prepon and Ben Foster are engaged.