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A 74-year-old woman mistook the gas pedal for the brake and drove onto a crowded dance floor at an outdoor concert near Cleveland on Sunday night, police said.

Minor league baseball player Brandon Thomas was living the dream.

On Thursday night, Donald Trump did the unthinkable. Sometimes, he admitted, I say "the wrong thing." But Trump wants you to know he "regrets it ... particularly where it may have caused too much personal pain." At the end of the day, though, his apology doesn't matter. Not just because Donald Trump hasn't given us any reason to believe he means it, but because he's not the one who has to seek forgiveness.

Feyisa Lilesa of Ethiopia may have turned himself into a political exile because of the way he won a silver medal in the Olympics marathon on Sunday.

Hakki Okur's family was searching hospitals for him Sunday morning after an explosion at a Kurdish wedding in Turkey killed at least 53 people.

After a campaign reboot that his new campaign manager calls his "best week" to date, Donald Trump could have a shot at reversing weeks of negative headlines and sliding poll numbers -- if he can stay out of his own way.

Following in the footsteps of his father Mickey, Danny Thompson took his piston-driven "Challenger 2" streamliner out to Utah's Salt Flats to attempt to set a new land speed record

Illinois Sen. Mark Kirk criticized President Barack Obama for delivering money to the Iranian government in coordination with the release of Americans being held prisoner there -- saying he was "acting like the drug dealer in chief."

It's still undecided whether Donald Trump will continue to support forced deportation of millions of undocumented immigrants living in the US, his campaign manager said Sunday.

While the Blue Cut Fire that has been ravaging thousands of acres near Los Angeles is 83% contained, other wildfires are burning up and down the state, including one threatening the historic Hearst Castle, authorities said.

A heartbreaking image of a young boy sitting next to the body of his murdered father has gone viral. CNN's Rafael Romo reports.

Harsha Vadlamani knows India's drought cycles.

It was a wet, windy and wild farewell to the 2016 Olympic Games as Rio de Janeiro bowed out in a storm of samba and rain inside the Maracana Stadium.

The US swept aside Serbia 96-66 Sunday to claim its third straight Olympic men's basketball crown, and the final gold medal of Rio 2016.

See photos from the Olympics closing ceremony in Rio de Janeiro.

Sea Port Products Corp is voluntarily recalling a batch of its scallops after at least 206 people became sick with hepatitis A, prompting an investigation by the US Food and Drug Administration and Centers for Disease control and Prevention.

A Tyrannosaurus rex skull was discovered in Montana and was sent to the Burke Museum in Seattle. There are only 15 known T. rex skulls in the world.

For Frank Ocean fans, the wait is over.

While much of the debate over America's security policy during this presidential campaign has centered on the response to specific attacks -- Brussels, Orlando, Nice -- a remarkable thing happened earlier this month. Quietly, without much attention, the Obama administration released an important policy document into the public domain, one that has previously been classified at the highest levels, but which was released with surprisingly few redactions.