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OAK ISLAND, NC — (CNN) A 13-year-old girl and 16-year-old boy each lost an arm Sunday in separate shark attacks at the same North Carolina beach. Oak Island Mayor Betty Wallace told CNN that the...

SPOKANE, WA — (CNN) The Spokane, Washington, chapter of the NAACP postponed a Monday meeting where its leader, Rachel Dolezal, was expected to address accusations that she lied about her race. &...

  Cocoa Beach, Fla. (CNN) — Jack King, who as a launch commentator for NASA was the voice of the Apollo 11 moon landing mission, died Thursday, the space agency said in a news release. He w...

BOSTON — (CNN) Federal prosecutors announced new charges Friday against two men accused in the Boston terror attack plot foiled last week when officers killed suspect Usaamah Rahim.David Wright ...

KUALA LUMPUR - (CNN) Four foreign hikers who posed naked on Mount Kinabalu in Malaysia were freed Friday after they were fined and sentenced to time served.The backpackers — from Britain, Canada...

SPOKANE, Wa. (CNN) — The race of one of the most prominent faces in Spokane, Washington’s black community is under question after her estranged mother claimed she is white but is “be...

DANNEMORA, NY — (CNN) A married couple employed at an upstate New York maximum-security prison may have aided a pair of convicted murderers before their brazen escape, authorities said Friday.Pr...

WASHINGTON (CNN) — Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey said Thursday that the U.S. military strategy in Iraq could require opening multiple bases near the front lines of ba...

ALEXANDRIA (CNN) — Ali Shukri Amin, from Alexandria, Virginia, pleaded guilty Thursday in a federal court to providing material support to ISIS and faces up to 15 years in prison when he is sent...

LONDON — (CNN) The scientist and Nobel laureate who sparked criticism after saying women in laboratories “fall in love with you and when you criticize them, they cry” has resigned fr...