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There's one thing largely missing from the 2016 race: a debate about what Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton would actually do as president.

In September 1976, "Star Trek" fans descended upon the Statler Hilton in New York. Photographer Shalmon Bernstein was there to capture all the "trekkies" and their costumes at the four-day convention.

The Obama administration made two additional cash payments totaling $1.3 billion, after delivering $400 million to Iran by plane in January, to resolve a failed arms deal, administration officials told lawmakers Tuesday.

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg told an audience Wednesday night that she thought "cooler heads will prevail" when asked about the Senate's refusal to hold hearings to fill the seat of Justice Antonin Scalia, adding she hoped it would happen "sooner rather than later."

The moment you may have been dreading is here. Lazy summer days have come to an end, and more structured back-to-work or back-to-school schedules have commenced.

Libertarian presidential nominee Gary Johnson stumbled while answering a question about the Syrian refugee crisis, asking "what is Aleppo?"

Even when he was running Fox News, Roger Ailes was advising Donald Trump.

First lady Michelle Obama says in a new interview that "it matters" African-American children are growing up seeing a black family in the White House.

Nothing makes parents happier than definitive proof they're raising their kids right.

The NFL season kicks off Thursday, bringing a flurry of irrational rituals from players and fans with the power to drive a room full of scientists nuts.

After a photo of two newborn twins hugging went viral, their parents are using it to raise awareness of the rare birth defect that claimed the life of one of the boys.

A Russian fighter jet made an "unsafe close-range intercept" of a US aircraft over the Black Sea Wednesday, coming within 10 feet of the American plane.

For a brief period of time Gavin Grimm, the transgender male high school student at the center of a national debate on gender identity, was allowed to use the boys' bathroom at his school.

You might want to chase that next beer with a little exercise. Exercising the recommended amount "cancels out" the higher risk of cancer death brought about by drinking, a new study revealed. Similarly, physical activity lessened any greater risk of death resulting from any cause due to alcohol.

National Women's Soccer League franchise Washington Spirit altered its pre-game ceremony to thwart Seattle Reign midfielder Megan Rapinoe from showing her support for NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick.

The besieged Syrian town of Madaya has seen a "worrying increase" in children suicide attempts as the long war takes its toll, a rights group warned.

Zendaya has alleged a grocery clerk of racism after refusing to sell her $400 in gift cards.

Student Kristin Smart went missing on May 25, 1996, and was declared dead in 2002. Now authorities say they may have gotten a break in this very cold case and have begun excavating on Cal Poly's campus.

The camerawoman seen on video tripping fleeing migrants in Hungary was charged Wednesday with "breach of peace" by the public prosecutor's office in the southern Hungarian city of Szeged.