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After a contentious -- and some said condescending, sexist and racist -- back-and-forth with White House reporter April Ryan at a press briefing Tuesday, Sean Spicer tried to get over the dust-up at the Wednesday briefing.

First Lady Melania Trump, who usually keeps out of the spotlight, called for women's empowerment and celebration of diversity in rare remarks at the State Department, giving us a first glimpse of an official platform as first lady. CNN's Kate Bennett reports.

Twelve people aboard a minibus bringing churchgoers back from a retreat were killed Wednesday in a two-vehicle crash in the Texas Hill Country, officials said.

A federal judge in Hawaii has granted the state's request for a longer term halt of the revised travel ban executive order. US District Court Judge Derrick Watson blocked the revised executive order two weeks ago -- but it was only a temporary halt through a restraining order. The plaintiffs asked for it to be converted into a longer term preliminary injunction, and he agreed Wednesday night.

In the words of India's labor minister, women have just been given a "humble gift" of six months paid maternity leave. Experts say it could sour very quickly.

With the 2017 tax filing deadline fast approaching, the Taxfyle app wants to simplify the process -- and take some of the stress away.

When President Donald Trump's son-in-law and aide Jared Kushner voluntarily appears before the Senate intelligence committee, he will describe his interactions with Russians during the transition as a point man "looking for the right person to engage with on Russia," and nothing more, according to a source familiar with what transpired.

Japan is considering a further step away from its long-held pacifist stance with a proposal which would allow it, for the first time since World War II, to strike overseas targets.

Cristiano Ronaldo has the looks, the medals and the money. And now even an airport -- in Madeira, where he was born -- has been renamed in his honor, with a new bust to boot also unveiled Wednesday of the Real Madrid star.

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Lamar Odom knows he is lucky to be alive.

Some Queenslanders didn't take police warnings to stay out of flood waters very seriously -- until a bull shark washed up in the street.

Spurned on health care by hard-line Republicans, President Donald Trump's White House is now looking for Democratic assistance to confirm Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court, advance a massive new infrastructure investment and fund the government.

Chinese President Xi Jinping will meet with US President Donald Trump at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida on April 6 and 7, according to Chinese state news agency Xinhua.

FBI Director James Comey said Wednesday his agency makes its decisions on a nonpartisan basis and said he doesn't care about the political backlash of the choices he makes.

The 911 caller tells an operator that he just shot two people that broke into his house.

Regaining his senses, Matt Zeller checked his watch. It was 16:50, April 28, 2008. "[I thought] this is the day and the time and place I die," he remembered, years later.

In response to a possible democratic filibuster, Senator Lindsey Graham says he will stop at nothing to make sure Trump's Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch is nominated, including using the "nuclear option."

Lululemon's downward dog; U.S. GDP; Mexico rate hike?

Feeling too fancy for normal earth-bound existence? A new skyscraper concept would elevate your living situation -- literally.