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The spokesman for Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte sought to clarify the leader's controversial comparison of his war against suspected drug offenders to Adolf Hitler's extermination of Jews during World War II.

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg -- the 83-year-old liberal legal icon -- drops a hint in a book set for release this week: she may not be planning to go anywhere, anytime soon.

Buzzfeed uncovered a 2000 video featuring Donald Trump purportedly pouring champagne onto a Playboy limo.

Trump is turning up the heat on his attacks against Clinton about her husband's past infidelities after a rocky week for his campaign.

Tropical Storm Matthew became a major hurricane Friday and threatens Jamaica, Cuba, Haiti and the Bahamas as it begins its slow romp across the Caribbean.

Sen. Marco Rubio and Rep. Joe Heck, two Republicans in two key Senate races, pulled over Thursday night traveling back from an event to help with the aftermath of a multi-car crash.

What does the Republican nominee for president do when he can't sleep?

The Commission on Presidential Debates revealed in a one-sentence statement Friday that Donald Trump's audio was impacted earlier in the week.

Libertarian vice presidential hopeful Bill Weld said Friday that he's "not sure anybody is more qualified than Hillary Clinton to be president of the United States," the latest misstep in what's been a painful week for the third-party ticket.

As criticism mounts of Donald Trump for his disparaging remarks about women, an old lawsuit reinforcing the candidate's troubling record on female employees has emerged. The 2012 lawsuit alleged that Trump wanted to get rid of female hostesses he considered unattractive at one of his golf resorts and replace them with better-looking women.

Female astronomers speak out about a culture of pervasive sexual harassment in academia, especially in the sciences and other STEM fields.

Video of Donald Trump acknowledging that his now-famous comments calling Mexicans "rapists" harmed his business interests is set to be released Friday afternoon.

In video from a June 2016 deposition, Donald Trump says his business was harmed by the manner in which a celebrity chef backed out of a planned restaurant at his new Washington hotel. CNN's Sunlen Serfaty reports.

Donald Trump's personal advisers have a history of problems with women. CNN's Kyung Lah reports.

It happened without warning, without time for passengers to realize they were barreling headlong into a deadly tragedy, without time for commuters standing on the station platform to flee.

Walk through campus at East Carolina State University in Greenville, North Carolina, and ask students whom they plan to vote for, and Hillary Clinton's struggle to win millennial voters is immediately clear.

The last surviving Doolittle raider tells the story of one of America's most daring secret military missions.

More than 1.3 million people serve in the five branches of the U.S. armed forces. Add in civilian employees from the U.S. Department of Defense, and you get the world's largest employer: 3.2 million employees, according to the World Economic Forum.

California Gov. Jerry Brown has signed legislation that mandates prison sentences for people who sexually assault unconscious or intoxicated victims, according to his office.

Alabama's chief justice Roy Moore was suspended without pay Friday for the rest of his term for directing probate judges to enforce the state's ban on same-sex marriage.