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A Franklin, Ohio, police officer noticed a boy trying to sell his stuffed animal for food and jumped in to help the child.

Rescuers pull a woman from her submerged car and dive to rescue her dog from rising flood waters near Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Malaika, a 29-year-old head nurse, holds Ali, a 2-day-old infant, as he struggles to take his final breaths. Born in eastern Aleppo, one of the hardest-hit cities in Syria's five-year civil war, Ali was born with chest issues that forced him to rely on an oxygen pump and an incubator in the neonatal unit at Aleppo Children's Hospital.

When Fidel Castro turns 90 on Saturday, few people may be as shocked by the former Cuban leader's longevity as Castro himself.

Long jumper Darya Klishina, Russia's only Olympic competitor in athletics, has been suspended from the Rio Games by track and field's governing body, pending a ruling from the Court of Arbitration for Sport.

Six people died Friday when a small private aircraft crashed at Shannon Airport in Fredericksburg, Virginia, according to state police.

Tim Kaine took aim at Donald Trump Saturday, slamming the Republican nominee for not releasing his tax returns.

The hacker who goes by "Guccifer 2.0" is claiming credit for the release of personal cell phone numbers and private email addresses of Democratic House members.

A police officer is dead and three suspects are in custody after a shooting at a traffic stop in New Mexico, authorities say.

The Rio Olympics have been mired in controversy and doubt, but as the competition unfolds, it's clear the Games will also be remembered for their firsts.

Plenty has been said about Donald Trump calling President Barack Obama the "founder of ISIS." The GOP presidential candidate added to the conversation himself on Friday, tweeting that he was being sarcastic when he made the remarks.

The Republican National Committee is upping its outreach to black voters as Donald Trump's candidacy faces a steep battle to win over minorities.

Trump spokesperson Katrina Pierson argued that President Obama took the US into Afghanistan. The war in Afghanistan began in 2001 during President George W. Bush's administration.

This summer's brightest meteor shower has another hurrah.

Julian Assange told Bill Maher in an interview that WikiLeaks is working on hacking into Donald Trump's tax returns. The Republican nominee has refused to release the returns, despite multiple requests from reporters.

Donald Trump declared Friday that there's only one way he could lose the state of Pennsylvania: if he's cheated out of it.

In a less volatile election cycle, the notion that Democrats would be on offense in red states like Utah, Arizona and Georgia would suggest the presidential race was effectively over.

It took the Justice Department 164 pages to chronicle what Baltimore resident Alethea Booze said she has known all her life: Officers routinely abuse the city's majority African-American community.

The last time Connecticut voted for a Republican presidential candidate, Americans were listening to music on cassette tapes and most cell phones were the size of shoe boxes.

A woman is hospitalized in critical condition after an alligator bit her hand at a fish camp in the Florida Everglades, authorities said.