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There's some pretty special rock art underneath some parts of a Hawaii beach.

Alaska averaging 33.9 degrees over seven months may not seem warm to folks in the Lower 48.

One Army helicopter pilot flew a mission for 10 hours, five of them while wounded, in a high-risk effort to rescue American hostages.

A North Carolina man who said he was "on the neighborhood watch" fatally shot a 20-year-old from inside his garage before telling a 911 dispatcher he was protecting his family from "hoodlums," according to Raleigh police.

If current trends persist, it will take 228 years for black families to accumulate the same amount of wealth as whites, according to a report released this week from the Corporation for Economic Development and the Institute for Policy Studies. For Latino families, it will take 84 years.

Inspectors found a mechanical failure caused three children to plummet from a Ferris wheel at a Tennessee county fair, a police spokesman said Tuesday.

The cupping craze at the Olympics has led every morning TV show to conduct their own cupping in the name of research. CNN's Jeanne Moos reports.

Serena Williams' reign as Olympic singles champion came to a shuddering halt Tuesday as the tennis star suffered a shock defeat by Ukraine's Elina Svitolina.

Iran's former hard-line leader is pressuring President Barack Obama to return billions of dollars in seized Iranian assets, though it's almost certain his appeals will go nowhere.

It's come to this. Donald Trump said on Tuesday that his opponent Hillary Clinton "wants to abolish, essentially abolish the Second Amendment. By the way, if she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks." Trump followed his claim, which was not supported by any source or proof, with a not-so-veiled suggestion, adding, "although the Second Amendment people, maybe there is."

Aside from the candidates themselves, the 2016 Republican and Democratic Conventions felt oddly familiar. Both parties had elaborate stages and podiums, slick video introductions, recognized musicians, goodies for their guests and no shortage of balloons.

Hillary Clinton's campaign, seeing vulnerabilities for Donald Trump in Arizona and Georgia, says it plans to expand their political and organizing operations in the two states in the coming weeks, according to Democrats with knowledge of the plans.

Even as US diplomats were strongly urging Argentina's military to improve its human rights record during the country's so-called Dirty War, a top White House official argued against strongly punishing the junta for its crackdown on dissidents.

More than half a century before the Zika virus grabbed international headlines and photos of newborns with abnormally small heads were splashed across our screens, a different outbreak that affected pregnancies fueled change in the United States.

Video shows the father of Orlando gunman Omar Mateen attending a Hillary Clinton campaign rally in Florida. CNN's Brian Todd reports.

Donald Trump frequently cites things that he says he's hearing or that "everybody is saying."

It's a dynamic that just about any parent can relate to: Your child does something wrong, such as hitting their sister, or yelling at a friend, you encourage them to apologize, they refuse and then barely say the word "sorry."

Kansas state police are investigating the death of a child Sunday on a water slide at the Schlitterbahn water park.