Florida Sen. Marco Rubio won the Republican nomination for Senate on Tuesday night, a result that enhances Republicans chances of retaining that seat and the Senate majority.
Washington (CNN) The way the coattail effect usually goes, a popular presidential contender helps others in his party by bringing voters to the polls who, while there, end up pulling the lever for down-ballot candidates.
WASHINGTON D.C. -- President Barack Obama cut short on Tuesday the sentences of 111 federal inmates in another round of commutations for those convicted of nonviolent drug offenses.
Chris Brown was arrested for assault with a deadly weapon Tuesday, the Los Angeles police department confirmed to USA TODAY. Brown was "arrested at some point this afternoon," says LAPD detective Meghan Aguilar.
Donald Trump is considering jetting to Mexico City on Wednesday for a meeting with Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto, just hours before he delivers a high-stakes speech in Arizona to clarify his views on immigration policy, according to people in ...
Brazilian jurist Janaina Paschoal, co-author of the complaint against suspended president Dilma Rousseff, speaks during the Senate's debate impeachment trial against Rousseff at the National Congress in Brasilia, Aug, 30, 2016.
(CNN) A five-day-old newborn peers out from a pink blanket. His dark, almond-shaped eyes stare directly at the camera, his tiny hand tucked underneath his chin.
WASHINGTON - The State Department said Tuesday it is evaluating a video released by the Afghan Taliban showing a Canadian man and his American wife warning that their Afghan captors will kill them and their children unless the Kabul government ends ...
ATHENS (Reuters) - A 48-year-old Turkish judge has requested political asylum in Greece, claiming persecution by the government of President Tayyip Erdogan, the Athens News Agency said on Tuesday.
Hillary Clinton is facing the possibility of new revelations on her personal email scandal on multiple fronts, as the FBI prepares to release some of the documents from its investigation in a matter of days - and a watchdog group sends the Democratic ...
Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the Florida Democrat who was pressured into giving up her post as chair of the national party on the eve of its presidential convention, survived a high-profile primary challenge for her House seat Tuesday.
Authorities in Florida on Tuesday released a handful of 911 calls about the shooting inside Pulse nightclub in Orlando, making public for the first time recordings of what police were told about the attack while it was happening.
The war of words between David Jolly and Charlie Crist has already started, with Jolly accusing his Democratic opponent of lying about his support for Donald Trump.
Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway suggested Sunday that her boss was backing down from his inflammatory approach on immigration, but wouldn't commit to what the moguls' actual new plan would be.
Donald Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway laced into David Plouffe on Tuesday, days after the former campaign adviser to Barack Obama called the GOP nominee a "psychopath.
All the data shows growing numbers of voters preferring to cast ballots early or by mail, but a light but steady flow of people arriving at polling places Tuesday still prefer the old-fashioned way.
Los Angeles-based developer CIM Group has agreed to buy Tribune Tower for up to $240 million, marking the end of media ownership for the historic North Michigan Avenue building and the beginning of a new chapter, likely as part of a mixed-use ...
WASHINGTON - The Agriculture Department will reopen some offices Wednesday that were closed after an unspecified email threat. USDA spokesman Matthew Herrick said offices in Colorado, Maryland, North Carolina and Kearneysville, West Virginia, will ...
Google parent company Alphabet is moving some developers from its Nest subsidiary over to Google as the latter ramps up its efforts in the smart home, The Verge has learned.
In case you didn't know, Apple is going to kill the standard audio jack on the iPhone 7 - go grab your pitchfork. But how will it replace the 3.5mm headset port?
Google is moving onto Uber Technologies Inc.'s turf with its own ride-sharing service in San Francisco that would help commuters inexpensively join carpools, said a person familiar with the matter, jumping into a booming but fiercely competitive market.
Intel's Kaby Lake, the company's 7th-generation Core microprocessor, was never meant to be. Broadwell, then Skylake: Intel's tick-tock model was supposed to move on from there to the 10-nm Cannon Lake microprocessor next on Intel's roadmap.
With the news that Selena Gomez is taking some time off to focus on herself and her health, we're taking a look back at everything she's said about her lupus diagnosis, her recovery and all the thoughts she's had throughout.
After 22 seasons in the bag, Dancing With the Stars is a tried and true platform for niche stars to pave their way to a new act. Having faced criticism time and time again for casting Hollywood unknowns rather than A-listers dominating the industry ...
In a sneak peek at Tuesday's episode of Bachelor in Paradise, Jared Haibon informs Ashley Iaconetti that Caila Quinn - the girl he's been involved with this season, much to Iaconetti's despair - has packed her bags and left the show.
The Minnesota Vikings were weeks away from pulling off one of the most difficult feats in modern sports. They built a beautiful new stadium and were set to christen it as a buzzy, legitimate Super Bowl contender.
At a time when the popular narrative regarding 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick starts with the notion that he has regressed a as a player and ends with the question of whether he'll ever get another chance with another NFL team after refusing to ...
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A new species of pterosaur named for its "ancient brain" has been found in Patagonia. The flying reptile lived in the early Jurassic period, between about 199.6 million years ago and 175.6 million years ago.
(CNN) Scientists have just reconstructed the genome of an ancient plague, which may shed new light on how certain diseases can either mysteriously disappear or continue to evolve and spread.
For years, Tasmanian devils have been ravaged by gnarly facial tumors, cutting their numbers and pushing them toward extinction - but a new study suggests they may pull through after all.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is almost out of money to fight the Zika virus, the agency's director said Tuesday - just hours before Florida announced three fresh homegrown cases of the infection.
The Ebola virus can linger for a year or even longer in the semen of some men, researchers reported Tuesday. That means that Ebola survivors could be an important source for re-igniting outbreaks of the deadly virus, which killed more than 11,000 ...
Women seeking medical abortions in Ohio experienced a higher rate of complications after the state implemented a law that put new restrictions on doctors who performed the procedure, according to a study published Tuesday.
Florida health officials on Tuesday said they were investigating three new Zika virus cases likely stemming from local mosquito bites in Miami-Dade County, including two cases outside of the known areas of active transmission.