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An American billionaire has taken the wheel at Formula 1.

Nearly 50 million children worldwide have been uprooted from their homes due to violence, poverty and other factors out of their control, according to a new report released by the U.N. children's agency.

Is China building more islands in the disputed waters of the South China Sea?

A Russian river located by the Arctic town of Norilsk turned bright red Tuesday, looking more like an enormous blood vessel than a body of water.

At an NBC town hall, Donald Trump stood by a 2013 tweet that implied military sexual assault is a result of women serving in the military.

Apple's new iPhone 7 will ditch the ubiquitous headphone jack, senior vice president of marketing Phil Schiller announced Wednesday at the company's keynote event in San Francisco.

Thanks to a generous land donation, Yosemite National Park will grow by an additional 400 acres of wetlands and meadow habitat on its western boundary. It is the largest planned expansion for the California park in nearly 70 years, said Tim Ahern of the group Trust for Public Land.

A funny thing happened at Apple's big event on Wednesday. It started off more like an ad for Nintendo than it did for Apple.

Everyone knows you have to watch out for sharks on Australian beaches -- but what about dinosaurs?

Four police officers in Oakland, California, have been fired for involvement in a department-wide sex scandal, Mayor Libby Schaaf said in a press conference Wednesday.

Apple announced its next-generation smartphone in a promoted tweet shared at the beginning of its annual press event on Wednesday. The device, which is available for pre-order on Friday Sept. 16, is water resistant.

The "ghost snake" is a new snake recently discovered in Madagascar. It's part of the snake group called cat-eyed snakes.

The US Coast Guard is searching for a woman who fell overboard from a Carnival cruise ship early Wednesday, according to a news release.

It's early Autumn and Oday Shakar is carefully hemming his latest creation: a mauve lavender suede jacket, worn atop an ivory chiffon skirt with plissé inserts.

The last weeks of Barack Obama's presidency have been trying -- and may soon become even more so.

Nearly a mile under the Black Hills of South Dakota sits a canister of the atomic element xenon, chilled cold enough to turn it to liquid. The canister is the Large Underground Xenon, or LUX, detector -- the most sensitive dark matter detector in the world. But the results of a new analysis by the LUX Collaboration has left scientists perplexed about a substance that has guided the formation of the stars and galaxies since the cosmos began: dark matter.

Every presidential nominee from both parties has done it for the past four decades.

Donald Trump, resurfacing attacks hurled against Hillary Clinton during her Senate campaign, argued that the Democratic presidential nominee is "not a New Yorker" while speaking at an event hosted by the New York State Conservative Party.

Only one email from the batch of 14,900 new documents the FBI found from Hillary Clinton's private server directly references the Benghazi attacks -- and that was a letter of praise from an ambassador, the State Department said Wednesday.

FBI Director James Comey is defending the bureau's Friday afternoon release of documents from the Hillary Clinton email investigation, saying "we don't play games" and that the documents were put out when ready.