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Olympic athletes shed blood, sweat and tears for the chance to go for gold and bring their country pride once every four years.

Here's one kid who'll probably learn to fly before she can crawl.

Larry Wilmore bid farewell to "The Nightly Show" on Thursday, with an assist from the guy who helped him land the job, Jon Stewart.

Four US Olympic swimmers say they were robbed at gunpoint early Sunday in Rio de Janeiro, but Brazilian authorities say their accounts are contradictory. The officials went to extraordinary lengths of pulling two of the athletes off a flight headed home Wednesday night in search for answers.

Sylville Smith and the Milwaukee police officer who fatally shot him had crossed paths before a lethal encounter that led to days of unrest, according to Smith's relatives and friends.

The Viacom board met Thursday evening to approve a settlement that will change the face of the company.

A collection of short stories from author J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter archives are being released as e-books.

A group of kayakers get a close encounter with a humpback whale and her calf during a guided tour of the Discovery Islands in Canada.

The U.S. Olympic swimmers facing questions about their reports of being robbed in Rio de Janeiro were involved in a fight at a gas station in the city and committed acts of vandalism there, Brazilian newspaper "O Globo" reports.

If there's one thing we don't envy Nik Loukas -- who has circled the world 17 times, flown 428,000 miles and visited 44 countries since he started tracking his flights in 2012 -- it's the amount of in-flight meals he has to consume.

Between swimming, his own reality show and being called one of the sexiest men alive, Ryan Lochte has had a colorful journey as an Olympic athlete. CNN's Miguel Marquez reports.

While Brazilian police were yanking two American swimmers off their flight home on Wednesday night, over at the track, three American women were doing something unprecedented: they swept the 100m hurdles.

There were 27 heroin overdoses within four hours, including one death, in Huntington, West Virginia on Monday. Officials believe the drug may be laced with something making it particularly dangerous.

To celebrate National Aviation Day on August 19, we look at how airlines choose the names for their planes

If Obamacare were a patient, it would be bedridden, gasping for breath and struggling to survive in the wake of its latest setback.

Hillary Clinton is leading Donald Trump by two percentage points in the swing state of Nevada, according to a poll released Thursday.

For those unfamiliar with "Ben-Hur" -- or who only remember that it involves a chariot race and Jesus -- a new scaled-down movie version might be deemed harmless. Anyone hoping to find something even remotely worthy of the 1959 epic that won 11 Oscars, on the other hand, is advised to steer clear.

The look in his eyes is hypnotic.

A video posted by the Aleppo Media Center shows a young boy being pulled from the rubble after an airstrike.

Donald Trump and his campaign are uncomfortable with the truth. Mr. Trump has made that clear throughout his campaign, and on Wednesday his chief counsel, Michael Cohen, punctuated the point in a tense interview with CNN's Brianna Keilar.