RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - Swimmer Yusra Mardini, who survived a harrowing sea crossing a year ago and is now among 10 refugees competing under the Olympic flag in Rio, won her preliminary heat in the 100-meter butterfly Saturday.
Virginia Thrasher, 19, finished first over all in women's 10-meter air rifle. Credit Chang W. Lee/The New York Times. RIO DE JANEIRO - Virginia Thrasher went through a three-week spring whirlwind, winning three N.C.
Donald Trump unleashed a series of nasty personal attacks Saturday against his Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton, mocking her appearance and questioning her mental health several times during a New Hampshire campaign rally and on social media.
Washington (CNN) The Obama administration has released a previously secret 18-page policy guidance document that lays out how potential drone targets may be chosen and approved and the President's role in the decision-making process.
NEW YORK (AP) - An estimated 26.5 million people watched NBC's coverage of the Olympic opening ceremony, a sharp 35 percent drop from the record-setting viewership of the curtain-lifter in London four years ago.
PERTH, Australia - On July 29, loudspeakers and screens for national flag carrier Vietnam Airlines were hijacked in two major Vietnam airports in the cities of Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City.
People across Thailand are going to the polls in a referendum on a new constitution, written by a military-appointed committee. The military threw out the old constitution when it took power in 2014, after months of political instability and sporadic ...
During a news conference, Chicago police department Superintendent Eddie Johnson addressed the videos from the fatal police shooting of Paul O'Neal last month.
WASHINGTON - Helen Delich Bentley, a Maryland journalist-turned-politician who elbowed her way as a woman into newsrooms, shipyards, and Congress, distinguishing herself as one of her state's foremost boosters of Baltimore's port, died Saturday in ...
Windham, New Hampshire (CNN) Donald Trump seized Saturday night on Hillary Clinton's explanation that she "short-circuited" a recent answer about her truthfulness in discussing her email server to suggest that the former secretary of state is not ...
Donald Trump is claiming that the election is being rigged. As he is slipping in the polls, he suggested to the Washington Post that recent court rulings against strict voting laws in North Carolina, Wisconsin, Texas, and elsewhere could allow people ...
People line up outside the KI Convention Center in Green Bay for a Donald Trump rally, August 5, 2016. (WLUK/Andrew LaCombe). Donald Trump rally, Green Bay · Green Bay Trump rally · View Photo Gallery.
JANESVILLE, Wis. - House Speaker Paul D. Ryan's red-brick Georgian revival house in this tree-lined, kid-filled Midwestern neighborhood has long been his “refuge,” as his wife calls it, from the divisive world of politics.
Hong Kong-based Bitfinex said all users will lose 36 percent of their deposits after the bitcoin exchange concluded its review of a $71 million hacking attack.
Yesterday, shares of drug giant Bristol-Myers Squibb BMY -15.99% fell 16% after its breakthrough cancer drug, Opdivo, failed to slow tumor growth in previously untreated patients with non-small cell lung cancer.
Donald Trump's list of economic advisers includes hedge-fund managers, billionaire bankers, and an oil tycoon, but only one economist with a doctorate and no women.
Sign of pressure on the electric car maker. (Reuters) - Tesla Motors on Friday disclosed $1.1 billion in third quarter cash requirements in payments and planned expenditures, about a third of the cash on hand mid-year, in a new sign of pressure on the ...
Some changes are afoot over at Google's self-driving car division. Its CTO and technical lead, Chris Urmson, is officially departing the project in addition to a few other key staffers.
Good luck trying to catch 'em all in Iran. The country's High Council of Virtual Spaces has officially banned the Pokemon Go app, making Iran the first country to do so.
It's pineapple vs. orange on the tennis courts of Google. screenshot20160806-140509.png. Pineapple serves the tennis ball to Orange in Saturday's Google Doodle, available in the iOS and Android app.
With the introduction of Instagram stories this week, the internet had a collective conniption fit over the cloning of one of Snapchat's most popular features.
Scott Eastwood had movie and music fans swooning with his turn as a hunky matinee idol (not much of a stretch) in Taylor Swift's cinematic music video for "Wildest Dreams.
Bruce Gemmell, an assistant with the United States women's team, has helped Katie Ledecky lower her times in numerous events. Credit Doug Mills/The New York Times.
The United States won their second match of the 2016 Summer Olympics women's football tournament, beating France 1-0 on Saturday to take the lead in Group G. France were the better team before half-time, mustering a handful of chances but failing to ...
Jimmy Butler and Paul George (13) are part of a second unit that helped the U.S. total more turnovers forced (24) than field goals allowed (20) in Saturday's conquest of China.
A look at what's happening all around the majors Sunday: ___. A-ROD ANNOUNCEMENT. The Yankees will hold a news conference with Alex Rodriguez before a game against Cleveland.
RIO DE JANEIRO - When Cameron DeCort and his family drove from the airport in Rio to their hotel to kick off a week of watching Olympic events, the 15-year-old kept noticing something strange. "I saw three tanks on the side of the road and a ton of ...
The only gap in Katinka Hosszu's swimming résumé was an Olympic medal, but she rectified that in resplendent fashion on Saturday night, winning the 400-meter individual medley in 4 minutes 26.36 seconds at the Olympic Aquatics Stadium. The time broke ...
And, that Olympics coverage has already proven to be a windfall for the network, which said this week that it has already set a record with $1.2 billion in national advertising sales for this year's summer games, which puts NBC on pace for a 20% bump ...
Scientists have answered a burning question central to the charm of sunflowers: Why do young flowers move their blooms to always face the sun over the course of a day?
Scientists have unveiled about one of the brightest comet events in more than two decades. The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) has captured a video of a comet's death dive into sun between August 2 and 4. The comet met its doomed fate on ...
The long-held belief that people with sickle-cell trait are at increased risk of early death has been challenged by a new study. But a new study could challenge the notion on the basis of detailed followup of almost 48,000 black American soldiers on ...
FILE - In this Jan. 18, 2016, file photo, a female Aedes aegypti mosquito, known to be a carrier of the Zika virus, acquires a blood meal on the arm of a researcher at the Biomedical Sciences Institute of Sao Paulo University in Sao Paulo, Brazil ...
Mosquitoes are bred inside Sun Yat-Sen University-Michigan State University Joint Center of Vector Control for Tropical Disease, the world's largest “mosquito factory” which breeds millions of bacteria-infected mosquitoes, in the fight against the ...
