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Elon Musk is still trying to pinpoint the source of a huge chain of explosions that destroyed SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket last week at Cape Canaveral.

You can now play Pokemon Go without having to stare at your phone screen. Yay, right?

Imagine that swimming is what you've loved for more than 15 years, but whenever you dive into the pool, you feel like a disappointment, unmotivated to go forward. The feeling is almost destructive. That was what was going on in Allison Schmitt's mind during training after the 2012 London Olympic Games.

In the age of connectivity, the humble postcard should have been rendered obsolete.

"For he who is able to journey to it" -- Prophet Mohammed

'Tis the Hajj season again. Once a year, millions of pilgrims dressed in white descend on Islam's holiest site: Mecca in Saudi Arabia.

From the tallest female dog to the biggest chair in the world, the 2017 Guinness book includes many intriguing world records.

On September 11, 2001, amid the burning ashes of the World Trade Center, three New York City firefighters hoisted a small American flag removed from a nearby yacht. It was 5 p.m. on a day that would radically change the course of history.

CNN's Tom Foreman fact checks what Donald Trump really said about the Iraq War.

Donald Trump might not have revealed state secrets, but his controversial description Wednesday night of the agents who gave him his recent intelligence briefings still caused waves.

NASA is launching a space probe called OSIRIS-REx on Thursday to chase down a dark, potentially dangerous asteroid called Bennu. The probe will take a sample of the asteroid and -- in a US space first -- bring the sample back to Earth.

Take a look at 34 photos of the week from September 2 through September 9.

For Donald Trump, this was supposed to be a week in which he established himself as the only presidential candidate fit to serve as commander in chief.

Gary Johnson isn't the first presidential candidate to be stumped by a question during an interview. CNN's Jeanne Moos has some cringeworthy classics.

Shortly after September 11, 2001, photographer Steve McCurry stored his processed film of the destruction in a filing cabinet at his Manhattan studio. He did not look at the images closely again for 10 years.

The thought that comes to mind when you hear the word "statin" may depend on your age. Below the age of 40 and you may not have come across them, but for everyone else, these drugs can be something they love, or equally as often, loathe.

Donald Trump on Thursday once again sought to convince the public that he opposed the Iraq War by pointing to statements he made after the US had already invaded the country.

A Georgia police officer is accused of raping a woman while he was transporting her to a jail in an Atlanta suburb, state authorities say.

Donald Trump cited Vladimir Putin's domestic approval ratings and recent close encounters between Russian fighter jets and US warships as evidence that Vladimir Putin was a stronger leader than Barack Obama. Barbara Starr reports.