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Skydiver Luke Aikins plummeted from 25,000 feet above California's Simi Valley without a parachute, landing squarely in a net set up to catch him.

So now it's official. With the conventions over, it is notable that the nominees of both major parties are from New York. After many decades when the city and the state have been relegated to secondary status in presidential politics, today two New Yorkers are at the top of the major party tickets.

One of the big themes of the concluding session of the Democratic convention Thursday was that Hillary Clinton would be a strong and effective commander in chief, while Donald Trump would most decidedly not be.

Donald Trump says the fall debate schedule is "unacceptable," raising the specter that he may try to skip them.

A shooting early Sunday in downtown Austin, Texas has claimed the life of a woman in her 30s, according to the Austin-Travis County Emergency Medical Services. Several other people were wounded in the shooting.

The outbreak of terror attacks in Northern Europe has also translated into growing hostility toward migration, writes Tim Lister.

Two car bombs detonated Sunday at a Somali government office in the nation's capital, Mogadishu, police said.

Dozens of families have started to trickle out of war-ravaged Aleppo, days after the Syrian army announced it had encircled the city and cut off rebel supply routes, according to reports.

It's not something you see often at the scene of a fire -- a firefighter giving a cat oxygen and saving its life.

Donald Trump and members of his Secret Service detail were briefly trapped in an elevator Friday before a campaign rally in Colorado Springs.

Hundreds of soldiers detained in the fallout of the July 15 coup attempt have been released, Turkish state media reported.

Suzanne Wright, the co-founder of one of the largest autism advocacy organizations, Autism Speaks, has died, the nonprofit said Saturday. She was 69.

There were no survivors reported after the hot air balloon caught fire and crashed in central Texas Saturday morning, according to authorities.

Take a look at the week in politics from July 24 through July 30.

Play was abandoned on day three of the PGA Championship at Baltusrol Golf Club, New Jersey, after persistent rain and the continuing threat of lightning storms Saturday.

The build up to Rio 2016 has been beset by political, economic and health crises, while doping has cast a shadow over sport and track and field in particular.

Matt King is an accessibility engineer at Facebook, who was born visually impaired. He's working to make Facebook photos and Messenger easier for the blind community to enjoy. CNNMoney's Laurie Segall reports.

A hot air balloon carrying 16 people crashed in central Texas after catching fire in the air, the Federal Aviation Administration said. CNN's Ed Lavandera reports.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is boasting about how his group's release of hacked Democratic National Committee emails is affecting the US presidential election -- and says it has unreleased information about Hillary Clinton's campaign.

Over four flag-waving days in Philadelphia, Democrats stole the Republicans' mojo.