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PORTLAND, ME — (CNN) Former President George H.W. Bush fell Wednesday while at his summer home in Kennebunkport, Maine, breaking a vertebrae in his neck, but “it was not life threatening,&...

PHILADELPHIA — (CNN) Bill Clinton said Wednesday that the crime bill he signed into law as President in 1994 worsened the nation’s criminal justice system by increasing prison sentences. &...

WASHINGTON — (CNN) President Obama responded testily at a press conference Wednesday when a reporter suggested the president was “content” to leave four Americans imprisoned in Iran ...

WASHINGTON — (CNN) President Barack Obama said that there was no precedent for revoking the U.S. medal of freedom as some have called for him to do for comedian and actor Bill Cosby, but the Pre...

WHEATON, MD - (CNN) Katherine and Sheila Lyon went to a Maryland mall 40 years ago and never came back.Finally, now, one person officially has been accused of being responsible for the sisters’ ...

WASHINGTON — (CNN) After the deal comes the defense. President Barack Obama is due to hold a news conference Wednesday as his administration maneuvers to protect the landmark deal over Iran̵...

RICHMOND — (CNN) Get ready for more Confederate flag debates across the country. Calls for removing — or keeping — the Confederate battle flag are heating up across the South. The co...

LAUREL, MD — (CNN) NASA has re-established contact with its New Horizons spacecraft after a planned communications blackout as the probe completes humankind’s first flyby of Pluto. Mission...

AURORA, CO — (CNN) Twelve people who’d gone to a Colorado movie theater for an evening’s entertainment never came home. Seventy who’d wanted to see “The Dark Knight Rises...

MEXICO CITY — (CNN) First he ducks into the shower of his prison cell, fully clothed. Then he leans down, but it’s not clear what the infamous drug lord is doing; the short shower wall blo...