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Black Hawks play an important role in our defense arsenal and now they are fighting fires. CNN's Rachel Crane reports.

The Brits called it the "Great War." To the Yanks, it was the "World War." No one wanted to think there could be a second. Though World War I, which began 100 years ago next month, devastated lives and landscapes, its effect on language was almost paradoxically positive.

Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill's friendship, Clint Eastwood on "Jersey Boys," and Gabrielle Union on NBA fiance.

Listen to General Eisenhower's speech to Allied troops before D-Day, one of the most pivotal battles of WWII.

It's a good thing Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart doesn't have an Internet connection. If he could see what happened to Zachary De Pue this week, he might turn over in his grave.

You can roll it, ferment it, dry it and put holes in it.

CNN's Nick Valencia reports on Curtis Harmon III, a man determined to beat the odds in his dream of playing pro football.

The events of 9/11 turned objects found at ground zero into memorials for the world. CNN shows some of the iconic pieces.

Dr. Suzanne Steinbaum weighs in on a new study that says dark chocolate and red wine won't make you healthier.

My name is Lauren Lee. I'm an associate producer at CNN, and I have systemic lupus erythematosus.

Entertainer exposes his fight with the disease on camera, showing how he's pushing for a cure and impacting our world.

Plush romantic beach holiday?

Wherever you go in the United States, you'll find monuments and reminders of America's history.

A young woman loses both her baby and her mother in a massive Washington state landslide. Halfway around the world, an elderly woman cries alone on the floor of a Beijing hotel, not knowing the fate of a loved one aboard missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370.

Watch as a former college in Iowa implodes in just under two minutes.

Your phone's confiscated. Your fingerprints are taken. You're going to prison. But don't worry, it's just for lunch.

Dr. Sanjay Gupta talks to Anderson about a new study linking the painkiller in Tylenol to cases of A.D.H.D. in children.

From a shopper's perspective, frequent traveling can be crippling. It can get worse in the holiday season where Christmas dominates many people's calendars. Why buy something in one city when a trip to a better shopping city is coming up?