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The parade of administration hopefuls passing through the Trump Tower lobby includes quite a few who have worn stars on their shoulders -- the kind of military men President-elect Donald Trump derided during the campaign as "embarrassing."

In Cincinnati, Donald Trump said that others were comparing him to Andrew Jackson. Nearly two centuries ago, however, that same Andrew Jackson acknowledged that his famous self-confidence had limits. "A diffidence, perhaps too just, in my own qualifications," he said in his first inaugural address, "will teach me to look with reverence to the examples of public virtue left by my illustrious predecessors."

Cut it out, Chris Pratt!

A Democratic congressman from Illinois said Friday he will boycott the inauguration of Donald Trump because he said the President-elect spews "hatred, bigotry and prejudice."

More than 10 people are dead following massive wildfires in eastern Tennessee. The flames burned thousands of acres in the popular resort areas of Gatlinburg and Pigeon Forge and damaged or destroyed more than 700 buildings.

Fifteen Grammys and six studio albums into her career, Alicia Keys still hasn't cracked the formula for a hit song.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi beat back a challenge Wednesday to keep her top leadership post.

The death toll from raging wildfires fires in Sevier County, Tennessee, climbed to seven after authorities recovered three more bodies at a residence, officials said Wednesday.

President-elect Donald Trump has chosen retired Marine Gen. James Mattis as his secretary of defense, a source with knowledge of the transition says.

Some Washington residents who disagree with Mike Pence's positions on gay rights are making their values known to their new neighbor.

Chicago has reached another bloody milestone.

The violence this week on the campus of the Ohio State University has, like previous attacks before it, provoked an outcry of fear and calls for greater security measures to protect Americans against terrorism. And yet, like other incidents before it, this attack was carried out by a terrorist whose inspiration to act reportedly came from within, not beyond, America's national borders.

Fresh off a landmark US Supreme Court defeat for abortion opponents this summer, Texas health officials quickly got to work proposing rules that would require abortion clinics to bury or cremate fetal remains.