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Australia is deliberately abusing refugees in an offshore detention camp to try to stop people seeking asylum in their country by boat, human rights groups claim in a new report.

The Syrian government claimed a "terrorist group" carried out a gas attack that killed five people in the city of Aleppo Tuesday, the state-run news agency SANA reported, while an anti-regime group said suspected chlorine gas cylinders were dropped in Idlib province. It is unclear if the attacks have any connection.

Today's 20-year-olds are having less sex than the previous generation. About 15% of adults between the ages of 20 and 24 reported having no sexual partners since they turned 18, according to new research published today in the journal Archives of Sexual Behavior. Just 6% of the previous generation said the same at that age.

Donald Trump campaign spokeswoman Katrina Pierson said President Obama, who took office in 2009, may be to blame for Capt. Humayun Khan's death in 2004.

The father of a Baton Rouge deputy who survived the deadly July 17th attack on police officers, posted an update and a touching story about his son.

Police in a Baltimore-area community have shot and killed an African-American woman after a standoff at an apartment complex, police said.

Shannen Doherty has even more bad news.

Some of the world's top security officials are heading to Las Vegas for Black Hat this week. And Hillary Clinton's campaign hopes to capitalize on the annual conference, as security issues remain in focus.

Yes, you read that right. Man's best friend took a car for a short joyride on Friday.

As the Zika scare ramps up in south Florida, Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos Gimenez said authorities will target 10 square miles north of downtown Miami to combat the virus.

Obama offered one of his sharpest denunciations of Trump to date and lambasted Republicans for sticking by their nominee.

Eric Trump defended his father Tuesday from criticism for his treatment of the family of a slain Muslim US soldier and said that he had already apologized to the Khans and Gold Star families -- despite the fact that the senior Trump has pointedly declined to apologize.

Scientists discovered a new species of whale on the island of St. George, Alaska. This species of whale has never been seen alive and is yet to be named.

Donald Trump on Monday took his complaints about the "rigged" political system one step further.

At a Trump campaign event in Carson City, Nevada, featuring VP nominee Mike Pence, the mother of an Air Force servicemember was loudly booed when she asked a question that was critical of Donald Trump and his comments about the family of a slain Muslim U.S. soldier.

Retiring GOP Rep. Richard Hanna (R-NY) said he will vote for Hillary Clinton in November, making him the first Republican member of Congress to openly announce his support for the Democratic presidential nominee.

Eric Trump said Tuesday his sister Ivanka is "strong" and "powerful" and would never allow herself to be sexually harassed by her boss.

Donald Trump is declining to endorse a pair of Republican heavyweights -- House Speaker Paul Ryan and former presidential nominee John McCain -- in their primary fights, another sign of the fractures within the party.

Longtime Chris Christie aide Maria Comella says she plans to vote for Hillary Clinton -- saying that after Donald Trump's nomination, Republicans are "at a moment where silence isn't an option."

Donald Trump takes a licking from critics for eating KFC finger lickin' chicken with a fork. CNN's Jeanne Moos reports.