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The night sky is lighting up this summer.

When I was the director at the Federal Nixon Library in Yorba Linda, California, we had a group of dedicated volunteers from Orange County who cared deeply about their country and history. After we released another set of Nixon White Tapes, which included among other things some outrageous anti-Semitic and otherwise prejudiced mutterings, one of these volunteers asked me whether the rumors were true; had I personally falsified these tapes in Washington to make "the President" look bad? (The volunteers usually referred to Richard Nixon as the President even four decades after his leaving the White House). Were they kidding? No.

Apple stock spiked over 7% on Wednesday, on track for its best day since April 2014. If it surges 9% or more by the end of day, it'd be the biggest advance since at least 2008.

Hillary Clinton hasn't even said anything about the Trans-Pacific Partnership recently -- and yet, in 24 hours, she became embroiled in a new controversy about her stance on the deal.

As a human rights group tells it, this is what witnesses say is happening to some of the thousands arrested after this month's failed coup in Turkey: captured military officers being raped by police; hundreds of detained soldiers beaten; some withheld food, water and access to lawyers for days.

The scent of chaos hangs heavy in the air. Donald Trump evokes it in Cleveland. Islamic State sows it in Nice, Brussels, Paris, Orlando. Britain is immersed in it after Brexit, while the EU struggles to prevent its onset amid mounting crises of migration and political legitimacy. Ukraine and Syria are being torn apart by it, and Turkey looks fragile after a failed coup.

Hillary Clinton will shatter another glass ceiling on Tuesday when she becomes the first female presidential nominee of a major party in the nation's 240-year history.

President Barack Obama on Tuesday wouldn't rule out the possibility that Russian President Vladimir Putin could be attempting to tip the US presidential election toward Donald Trump.

"You wanna try me, right?"

Hillary Clinton is calling on her biggest advocate Tuesday night.

Now this is a sweet bit of community policing.

An Australian man has won the raffle of a lifetime, taking home an entire Pacific island resort for the price of a $49 ticket.

There is "little doubt" Russia is behind the hack of Democratic National Committee emails, a US official told CNN on Wednesday.

A Malawian man who bragged about having sex with underage girls to mark their passage into adulthood has been arrested, authorities say.

Tim Kaine, the self-described "boring" Virginia senator, will give the speech of his life Wednesday as he introduces himself to the country as Hillary Clinton's running mate at the Democratic National Convention.

As freedom to buy and use pot in Colorado has expanded, so has the number of children who've needed medical treatment for accidental exposure to marijuana, a study reports.

A video on Facebook that shows a mother beating her 16-year-old daughter has sparked a debate online about discipline and public shaming.

Donald Trump said Tuesday that he would support raising the federal minimum wage to $10 an hour, a departure from his previous assertion that wages are "too high."

Relax, Marina Joyce fans. She's OK.