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I was a brand-new lawyer at a small firm in Richmond, Virginia. And fresh out of law school, as the rookie on the team, the pro-bono cases came to me. That's how I met Lorraine.

A mother is fighting a Texas school district after they decided to not allow her transgender five-year-old daughter to use the girl's bathroom.

When Simone Manuel touched the pool wall at the end of her swimming event in Rio, she set both an Olympic and an American record.

Khizr Khan is calling on Sen. John McCain to withdraw his support for Donald Trump because of his comments about his son who was killed in Iraq.

Amber Wolf's been a lot of things in her life: Lawyer, mom, cop's wife, judge. Now she can add a new title: viral video star.

The Olympic green pool saga has been through more twists and turns than the divers plunging into it.

The nation saw its fourth amusement park accident in five days when a child apparently fell out of roller coaster in Pennsylvania on Thursday, a local official told CNN.

Hillary Clinton has opened up commanding leads over Donald Trump in several critical battleground states, including North Carolina and Colorado, according to a new poll Friday.

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President Barack Obama will spend a chunk of his summer vacation reading five books, according to the reading list released by the White House.

Relatives of one of three British schoolgirls who left the country last year, apparently to join ISIS in Syria, fear she is dead, a family attorney said Thursday.

A Trump supporter cursed at reporters at a rally in Florida. CNN's Jeremy Diamond says this is something that has occurred at other rallies.

Swim aside, bowhead whales: Greenland sharks have stolen the crown as longest-living vertebrate on Earth. University of Copenhagen researchers estimated that these sharks live at least 400 years, nearly two centuries longer than the whales.

There is really just one salient question when it comes to today's decision by the Drug Enforcement Administration to expand the number of growers of research-grade marijuana while still not changing the scheduling of marijuana: Will this decision make it significantly easier for scientists to study the medical benefits of marijuana?

Three Thai cities have been hit by at least eight explosions in a span of about 12 hours, according to police officials.

Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan has been detained by US immigration authorities for the third time, prompting allegations of racial profiling.

Burger King has unveiled a Tex-Mex themed burger wrapped in a tortilla. This is the company that also brought us Chicken Fries and Mac n' Cheetos. But guess what? It's working. Shares of Burger King parent company QSR are on fire.

Pentagon workers and contractors are getting a reminder to keep Pokemon Go off their work phones, amid a report that concerns were raised that the app could be used for spying.

After Benita Abraham received a job offer, she took to Facebook to share her good news, posting an engagement-inspired photo shoot that went viral.

Phelps made more history as he took the 200-meter individual medley title in Rio to claim the 22nd Olympic gold medal of his career.