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Being approached by a US Coast Guard boat when you're on the water is normally not a good thing. But when you're with the crew of the M/V OCEARCH shark research vessel, it feels as if anything can happen.

Victor Ortiz, a 16-year-veteran with the New Jersey Transit Police, had worked the overnight shift. He was ready to clock out and start a Caribbean vacation when what started as a small incident ballooned into a terrifying and life-changing event.

Aaron Sorkin could be earning royalties off the 2016 campaign.

"The Voice" coach Adam Levine has a new girl in his life.

Brad Pitt spoke with Los Angeles authorities recently about an incident involving one of his children with Angelina Jolie, who filed for divorce this week.

A woman shoots at burglars during a fatal home invasion in Gwinnett County, Georgia. One of the burglars died of his injuries.

The problems bothering white Americans without a college degree have less to do with immediate economic insecurity or material hardship, although those are widespread, than with the collapse of a whole way of life.

Body-camera videos of police pepper-spraying a 15-year-old girl in Maryland have touched off an uproar.

While Jimmy Fallon is fussing with Donald Trump's hair, Seth Meyers is calling Trump a racist. Is there a rift between the two NBC late night hosts? CNNMoney's Brian Stelter finds out.

A Memphis man is getting a new lease on life after receiving a prosthetic nose 10 years after an accident left him disfigured.

Days after telling CNN she wouldn't return to the tennis tour until she was healthy, Serena Williams withdrew from the two biggest tournaments on the Asian swing.

Many experts tout sugar as public health enemy number one. Considering eating too much of it can lead to obesity, heart disease and diabetes, the title does make sense. Also because most people overconsume it.

As Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton prepare to square off Monday night in their first debate, the expectations are clear: Political bloodsport in primetime.

The New Wilshire Grand Center in Los Angeles has been described as one of the most complicated skyscraper projects ever attempted.

Tulsa police officer Betty Shelby has been charged with manslaughter in the first degree, Tulsa County District Attorney Steve Kunzweiler told reporters Thursday.

As a second night of protests rent the city of Charlotte, North Carolina, a police officer from another town feeling the pain of an officer-involved shooting wrote an emotional and compassionate plea on Facebook.

The blood-soaked journal of Ahmad Khan Rahami, the man suspected in the weekend bombings in New York and New Jersey, signals a "new era of terror," the chairman of the Homeland Security Committee said Wednesday.

The White House is investigating the apparent hack of an email account belonging to a low-level contractor that purportedly contained a scan of Michelle Obama's passport and information about vice presidential travel.

A 3-year-old boy survived alone for three days and nights in a Siberian forest, overcoming near zero temperatures and the threat of bears and wolves, according to regional authorities.