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Sean Maroni has a passion for tinkering with things. The childhood trait persisted through his teen years and made him pause his college education in mechanical engineering to launch his startup Betabox in 2014.

"Saturday Night Live" is losing two of its familiar faces.

Modern humans' ancient relatives were probably not Mensa material, but an exciting new discovery by paleoanthropologists suggests they were much more sophisticated than scientists had thought.

Over the past few years, there has been a steady flow of articles in magazines, newspapers and online news outlets examining what hookup culture on college campuses means for sexual norms and behaviors among young adults, particularly young women.

During the 34 years I served as a Republican elected official in Connecticut, 13 years in the State House of Representatives, and 21 years in Congress, I always voted for our Republican candidate for governor and our Republican candidate for president.

Gurbaksh Chahal, the tech wunderkind who got fired from his CEO job for allegedly assaulting his girlfriend, has managed to avoid jail so far. But that could change on Friday.

A loaded quip. A widening gap. A blistering report. It's Friday, and here are the 5 things you need to know to Get Up to Speed and Out the Door.

From Amazon's flying delivery service to smuggling drugs over borders, the uses of civilian drones are multiplying fast.

Tonya Harding vs. Nancy Kerrigan; the Russian and US ice hockey teams; Carl Lewis and Ben Johnson; Mary Decker vs. Zola Budd -- the Olympics have always played host to some intense rivalries, sometimes personal, sometimes geopolitical.

Ski slopes, breweries and manicured parks are not the usual trappings of a power plant.

What happens when you submerge a black dress in the depths of the Dead Sea? A lot, it turns out.

Donald Trump said Tuesday that if Hillary Clinton gets to pick Supreme Court justices, there's "nothing you can do, folks ... although the Second Amendment people, maybe there is."

Congested Dubai is looking to the future with a radical new mass transit system able to carry passengers at speeds faster than some airliners.

Brazil's Senate voted to hold an impeachment trial for suspended President Dilma Rousseff.

As FX's "The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story" continues to bask in the glow of overwhelming praise, the show's producers have already pivoted to working on the anthology's next installment: a Hurricane Katrina tale that will be a fairly major departure from their retelling of the trial of the century.

Shibuya. Shinjuku. Harajuku.

See photos from Day 4 of the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.

During the opening ceremony, the Rio Olympics organizers talked about a green environment.

The National Rifle Association launched a new ad Tuesday in battleground states that portrays Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton as an elitist who "would leave you defenseless."

House Speaker Paul Ryan easily won the Republican primary in Wisconsin's 1st congressional district, defeating challenger Paul Nehlen, CNN has projected.