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Mark Cavendish held his hands up and took the blame Monday after a collision with Sanghoon Park led to the South Korean cyclist being thrust from his bike and taken away on a stretcher.

Donald Trump argued that only he could be trusted in the White House during a speech outlining how he would combat Islamic terrorism, characterizing the fight as an ideological struggle on par with that of the Cold War.

The killer in a murder-suicide that took the lives of a family of five in Berks County, Pennsylvania, has been identified as the father, District Attorney John Adams said Monday.

The only female officer enrolled in the Marine Corps' Infantry Officer's Course has dropped out after failing to complete two conditioning hikes last month, according to the Marine Corps' Training and Education Command.

The NSA develops high-powered hacking tools. Now a hacker claims to be selling a stolen batch of them.

Hillary Clinton's super PAC won't air any local ads in Virginia, Colorado and Pennsylvania from September 2 to 20, according a Priorities USA spokesman, citing strong poll numbers for Clinton in those states.

President Barack Obama briefly emerged from his golf and fine dining-filled vacation Monday to raise campaign cash for Hillary Clinton, boosting the Democratic presidential nominee for an afternoon before returning again to a week of relaxation.

From the start of the primary season through the nominating convention in Philadelphia, Democrats have attempted to show that any divisions that their party faces are relatively minor compared to the raucous infighting within the GOP that has caused Republicans to question the fate of their own party.

American athletes are making noise about competing clean at the Rio Olympics. But maybe they should turn down the volume some. Because the truth is that the United States has its own less-than-proud history when it comes to doping.

The Pentagon believes that the US-led anti-ISIS coalition has seized the offensive and made significant progress in taking back key territory from ISIS, US defense officials told CNN Monday.

An airstrike on Monday hit a hospital in northwestern Yemen and killed at least 11 people, said humanitarian group Doctors Without Borders.

A pair of House Republicans have added their names to a request for their party to stop funding Donald Trump at the top of its ticket.

MIT researchers have created tattoos that function as interfaces for smartphones and other digital devices. These tattoos can receive and send information, serving as wearable devices that add a personal touch of style.

At least five killed, thousands rescued after a rare flood event that dropped more than two feet of rain in Louisiana. CNN's Jennifer Gray reports.

A week after the Justice Department -- led by a black attorney general appointed by the nation's first black president, who is enjoying high national approval ratings -- excoriated one of the most diverse police departments in the country -- which is headed by a black man in a mostly-black city with a black mayor and black city council members -- for its systemic, discriminatory tactics against black residents, a black police officer in Milwaukee shoots a black man.

Women who take acetaminophen during pregnancy are more likely to have a hyperactive child, according to a new study. Prenatal exposure to the medication was associated with a higher risk of having children who exhibit emotional or behavioral symptoms, the researchers said.

Next month will mark 15 years since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, but thousands of people across the country continue to feel its effects on their health.

When city alderman Khalif Rainey called Milwaukee "the worst place to live for African Americans," it wasn't just hyperbole.

Donald Trump outlined his plan to defeat ISIS and combat terrorism during a speech in Youngstown, Ohio. CNN's Jessica Schneider reports.

The August heat is proving a killer in Philadelphia.