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An airline passenger in Madrid bypassed security, broke through an anti-fire door and jumped from a passenger boarding bridge to chase down a missed flight. He was able to board the plane but was arrested upon landing.

The shifting sands on Hawaii's coast have revealed petroglyphs experts believe date back more than 400 years.

At a Donald Trump campaign rally in Florida, the Republican candidate called President Obama the "founder of ISIS." CNN's Jim Acosta reports.

Kentucky District Court Judge Amber Wolf made an exception to allow an inmate to see his month-old baby for the first time in court.

It's likely to prove one of Rio 2016's most memorable moments and it has nothing to with the winning of medals.

A little talk and a big choice. It's Thursday (unlike yesterday's goof, we double checked this time), and here are the 5 things you need to know to Get Up to Speed and Out the Door.

Four years after Julian Assange took refuge at the Ecuadorian embassy in London, Sweden may finally get a chance to question him.

The furor over Donald Trump's comments about gun owners' power in the presidential campaign continued Wednesday.

A California blaze that killed four people and cost nearly $57 million to extinguish was started by faulty hot tub wiring at a home, authorities said.

In reaching for the gold, many will falter and fail. Some will cheat.

Age is clearly just a number to US cyclist Kristin, who powered to gold in the women's cycling time trial the day before she turns 43.

Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte called the US ambassador to his country a "gay son of a bitch" in a speech, prompting US diplomats to raise the issue with their Filipino counterparts in Washington.

If you're looking to catch Pokemon in Thailand, don't get your hopes up.

In the end, what separated Olympic champion Kohei Uchimura and silver medalist Oleg Verniaiev was one hop.

One day, Michael Andrew Ryan sat down at a computer, hopped onto a hidden part of the Internet known as the dark Web, called himself "Gunrunner" and opened for business.

Olympic organizers are investigating after the water in the diving well and the water polo pool mysteriously turned green.

Donald Trump continues to do his version of the rope-a-dope, luring his political critics into a fight they cannot win. Once backed into the ropes, Trump then sucker punches and dominates the news cycle for yet another day.

Senior Air Force officials said Wednesday the Air Force will face a shortage of 700 fighter pilots by the end of 2016. That shortfall is estimated to grow to 1,000 by 2022.

CNN's Brynn Gingras reports that the 20-year-old man who climbed Trump Tower had a video message where he says the reason he scaled the tower was to get Trump's attention.

A police officer accidentally shot and killed a retired Minnesota mother of two during a civilian police drill in Punta Gorda, Florida, that was supposed to employ only blank ammunition, police said.