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On Monday night, Bernie Sanders fell on his sword for Hillary Clinton, endorsing her candidacy for president and bowing under the pressure of the Democratic establishment. But Bernie's conciliatory endorsement does not negate the very real contentions of the protesters passionately shouting their grievances outside and within the convention hall.

The DNC had an inauspicious start in Philadelphia. With WikiLeaks' release of Democratic National Convention officials' emails timed for maximum impact, an inescapable narrative emerged: The Democrat primary really was rigged against Bernie Sanders.

Timothy LaHaye, the evangelical minister and co-author of the "Left Behind" book series, died Monday in San Diego following a massive stroke.

Michelle Obama at the Democratic National Convention on Monday night was akin to Whitney Houston at Super Bowl XXV in 1991 singing the national anthem. Houston's performance was a balm during a very real, yet far off war. Michelle Obama, for her part, calmed the tension in a brewing rhetorical war in Philadelphia.

During HBO's "Last Week Tonight," John Oliver teamed up with musicians to create a new song that tells politicians to stop using their music without permission.

On a sweltering summer's day, children with ice-cream dribbling down their arms dart between the various stalls at Romford Market.

Elizabeth Warren took center stage at the Democratic convention Monday as the party faced challenges in unifying a party base torn apart by divisive primaries and, more recently, the leak of damning DNC emails.

New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker will go to bat for Hillary Clinton Monday night, using his primetime speech on the convention's opening night to attempt to heal the party after a divisive primary and a dramatic weekend.

Days of swelteringly hot weather followed by a thunderstorm warning caused the price of electricity to spike 1000% for New York City Monday afternoon.

At the beginning of this year, Marissa Mayer gathered with Yahoo's top execs for an off-site meeting. Weeks earlier, an activist shareholder had called for Mayer to be fired. There were reports that Yahoo was up for sale. Verizon had even publicly expressed interest in buying Yahoo.

Actress and comedian Sarah Silverman tells staunch Bernie Sanders supporters that they are being ridiculous for withholding support from Hillary Clinton.

Blocked toilets, leaky pipes and exposed wires ... just a few of the reasons Australia's Olympic delegation says it has refused to move into the athletes village, now open to arriving Olympians.

General Mills on Monday announced another expansion of its flour recall. The move was prompted by an announcement from the U. S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that four more individuals from two different states (Minnesota and Wisconsin) have developed E. coli illness linked to the flour.

A huge thunderstorm has forced hundreds of journalists out of a media tent next to the Wells Fargo Center -- the host of the Democratic National Convention.

Two people are dead and at least 13 others injured during a shooting at a Fort Myers, Florida, nightclub, according to Captain Jim Mulligan with the Fort Myers Police.

Kristen Bell calls her 2013 wedding to actor Dax Shepard "one of the best days of my life."

Artist Patricia Piccinini worked with a trauma surgeon and a collision investigation expert to create Graham, a sculpture of what humans might look like if we had evolved to survive car wrecks.

The bounce is back.

A woman was dragged away and mauled by a tiger after she exited a vehicle during a wildlife tour.

A meeting of Florida Democratic delegates descended into chaos when outgoing Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz took the stage Monday, with critics holding up signs with the word "Emails" and Bernie Sanders supporters booing the congresswoman loudly, even after she began speaking.