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Chris Christie ripped into Ted Cruz's performance on the third night of the Republican National Convention, after the Texas senator was booed from the stage Wednesday night for declining to endorse Donald Trump.

Bulgarian artist Christo -- who is best known for his massive "wrapping" of buildings and other monuments -- unveiled his latest installation, "The Floating Piers."

Federal, state and local enforcement are taking over downtown Cleveland during the 2016 RNC.

Wednesday night was dreadful for Donald Trump. Simply awful. The whole message of this convention is "unity." The reason he has invited his former opponents to speak is to stress that he, too, is a conservative. Well, Ted Cruz stripped away the veneer of unity. And his beautiful speech about the true meaning of conservatism left us in no doubt that Trump ain't a conservative.

Drug dealers have to pay for heroin overdoses on their turf, says a Pennsylvania judge.

During his speech at the Republican National Convention, Sen. Ted Cruz was booed by the crowd after not endorsing Donald Trump.

Cleveland police on Wednesday made multiple arrests and reported that two officers had been injured after a protester attempted to light an American flag on fire outside the security barrier surrounding the Republican National Convention.

Growing up Trump wasn't exactly a typical upbringing.

Donald Trump thanked Scott Walker on Twitter Wednesday -- just not the one he meant to.

Brazil's intelligence agency said it was reviewing all threats against the Rio 2016 Games after a jihadi messaging channel called for its followers to target the Olympics.

The third night of the GOP convention is a story of the running mate — who will deliver a keynote speech — and former rivals such Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio and Scott Walker, who will show good faith toward Trump, who vanquished them in the primaries.

The Atlanta teen who pointed out the unfair advantages of white privilege is back with another poem.

A well-known Belarusian journalist working in Ukraine was killed Wednesday after an explosive device placed under the car he was driving detonated in central Kiev.

Gavin Long, the man who shot six law enforcement officers Sunday in Baton Rouge, Louisiana -- killing three -- suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder, a source involved in the investigation told CNN's Chris Cuomo.

Rep. Mark Takai of Hawaii has died after a battle with pancreatic cancer, his office announced Wednesday. He was 49.

Donald Trump's presidential campaign has caused huge ratings spikes for the past year. But his Republican National Convention is not setting new ratings records — at least not yet.

Trump's campaign finally moved to shut down the distracting controversy over Melania Trump's plagiarized speech by identifying the writer.

Unless you're lucky enough to live in the Pacific Northwest, summer's been unflinchingly brutal this week.

The US Secret Service is investigating an informal adviser to Donald Trump's presidential campaign after he called for Hillary Clinton's execution.

This probably wasn't the wall Donald Trump had in mind.