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Next Friday, you'll be able to saunter into your nearest Apple Store and try out the new iPhone models, Apple Watch Series 2, and possibly the new wireless ear buds. (Assuming Apple finds a way to prevent them from being stolen and periodically removes accumulated ear wax.) Until then, we took a test drive for you at a hands-on area after Apple's big event.

Seattle-based startup VICIS has designed a new helmet that can reduce the impact of blows to the head. Can it make football safer?

Americans say they expect Hillary Clinton to outperform Donald Trump when the two take the stage for the first presidential debate in less than three weeks, according to a new CNN/ORC poll.

Who is the real Donald Trump? Often, that depends on when you catch him.

Libertarian presidential nominee Gary Johnson stumbled while answering a question about the Syrian refugee crisis on Thursday, asking "What is Aleppo?" in an interview on MSNBC.

Clint Eastwood gained fame in westerns as The Man With No Name, and has recently forged a directorial niche in movies featuring Men of Few Words. So he follows the hugely popular "American Sniper" with another film featuring a character graced with quiet nobility, "Sully," a spare and old-fashioned celebration of heroism.

Scientists built a giant petri dish to see how bacteria become increasingly resistant to antibiotics.

Labor day is usually a time of leisure, carefree barbecues and lounging by the pool. But a Louisville, Kentucky, teenager spent the holiday feeding the homeless, and one small act of his that day is inspiring people around the world.

Hillary Clinton unleashed a torrent of attacks against Donald Trump's preparedness to be commander-in-chief Thursday morning, hours after an NBC forum exposed her opponent to criticism on multiple fronts.

One side of the bedroom is an explosion of pink, from the hair accessories and dangling trinkets to the stuffed animals and laundry hamper. The other, starting with the fuzzy pillows and puffy comforter, is an ode to purple.

The pictures from Brazil are heartbreaking: baby after baby born with a small head and damaged brain after an attack by the Zika virus during pregnancy. The official numbers are equally disturbing: The rate of birth defects involving the nervous system nearly doubled across Brazil after Zika arrived.

Twitter has a memo for NBC News: Don't send Matt Lauer to do a political journalist's job.

We believe what we see ... so how do unseen ideas become believable?

Walking around the old town of Vilnius, capital of Lithuania, you cannot miss a plaque on a historic building. It reads, "Anyone who would choose Lithuania as an enemy has also made an enemy of the United States of America."

French President Francois Hollande called for the creation of "an Islam of France" and the removal of foreign-trained extremist imams in a key speech Thursday on the challenges radical Islam poses to democracy.

In the cruel and unforgiving foreign policy world of migraine headaches the next President is almost certain to inherit, which candidate would be better equipped to lead the nation?

As her kidnapper drove toward Washington state, Montana resident Rita Maze called her husband from the trunk of her car, where she was locked by her captor, authorities say.

All of the drama connected with his breakup from Taylor Swift is not what Calvin Harris came for.

An overlooked corner of West Texas is believed to contain billions of barrels of newly-discovered shale oil.