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Laura Maurer said she is not the type to text while driving. Case in point: Two years ago, when she needed to send a text to a client who frequented her hair salon, she pulled over on a country road near her home in Brooklyn, Iowa, to send it.

The post-convention polls are in, and they consistently show Hillary Clinton entering the next phase of the presidential election campaign with the upper hand over Donald Trump.

The Rio Games may be rife with controversy but one thing the Olympics does better than any other event is bring nations together.

Will Ripley reports on Japanese Emperor Akihito's rare broadcast address to the nation.

Walmart (WMT) announced Monday that it has agreed to buy Jet.com, a much-hyped e-commerce site trying to take on Amazon (AMZN, Tech30) directly, for $3 billion in cash, with another $300 million in stock kicked in for good measure.

Florida Sen. Marco Rubio says he does not believe pregnant women who contract the Zika virus should be allowed to get an abortion, despite concerns about birth defects.

How many times a day do you check your smartphone?

Every 30 seconds, a person is killed in a car crash. CrashDetech seeks to reduce this with an app that auto detects crashes and calls the nearest ambulance.

An official in every GOP administration since Reagan, Frank Lavin, says he'll vote for Hillary Clinton. Trump is unsuited to the presidency and his serial bankruptcies raise questions about his business record.

Records are tumbling, cyclists are crashing, rowers capsizing -- the Rio OIympics have already delivered some thrilling sport and there is a lot more action to come on Monday when the world's best swimmers and gymnasts go head to head.

More than a million Turks united in Istanbul on Sunday night as part of a pro-democracy rally following last month's failed coup.

USA Olympic athletes discuss their diet during training and some of the unusual things they eat as they prepare to compete in the 2016 Rio Olympic Games.

Ohio Gov. John Kasich tells CNN's Jake Tapper that he found it bizarre that Donald Trump would not immediately endorse top Republicans like Sen. John McCain and House Speaker Paul Ryan.

Society, culture and peer pressure are all well known to impact your sexual behavior, but scientists are increasingly realizing that your genes are also involved.

Bitcoin owners targeted by hackers last week may lose about 36% of their money.

Almost 50 Filipino officials, including mayors and police officers, have surrendered in response to being called out by the country's president as being connected to illegal drug trade Sunday.

Brazil's Olympic team gave about a third as many samples as normally expected in the crucial month before the games began, CNN can reveal -- an "unacceptable practice" according to the world anti-doping watchdog.

See photos from Day 2 of the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.

At least 38 people have been killed by landslides in the Mexican states of Puebla and Veracruz after Tropical Storm Earl hit eastern Mexico, according to the official Twitter account of National Civil Protection Coordinator Luis Puente.

The President of the Philippines has named over 150 government officials who he says are complicit in the country's drug trade.