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Having a couple of drinks after work at Austins Bar & Grill in Olathe, Kansas, was something Alok Madasani did often with his friend Srinivas Kuchibhotla.

A projectile was shot into a classroom window of an Indiana synagogue sometime Sunday afternoon, injuring none but furthering anxiety about a rise in anti-Semitic incidents in the United States.

President Donald Trump's transition team, days before he took office, nixed plans for an orientation class that would have prepared political appointees and White House staff for a series of ethical and legal issues, documents provided to CNN show.

Fashion retailer Zara is urging women to "Love your curves," but that body-positive message may be overshadowed by the slender models featured in the campaign.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions recuses himself from any current and future investigations into Russian ties to President Trump's campaign.

An app once thought to be for little more than sexting is about to become the biggest new publicly traded tech company in years.

Poker expert Martin Sturc may have finally met his match: a computer program called DeepStack.

A painting by Austrian painter Gustav Klimt has become the third most expensive artwork ever sold at auction in Europe.

President Donald Trump stood aboard a soon-to-be commissioned Navy aircraft carrier Thursday and touted his calls for a multi-billion dollar military investment, promising a "great rebuilding of our military might."

Attorney General Jeff Sessions met twice last year with the top Russian diplomat in Washington whose interactions with President Donald Trump's former national security adviser Michael Flynn led to Flynn's firing, according to the Justice Department.

The European Commission warned EU member states on Thursday that "there are no more excuses" for not delivering on promises to take on refugees.

Born in Morocco and still a devout Muslim, Ahmed Aboutaleb is -- it would seem -- precisely the type of person that far-right leader Geert Wilders wants to kick out.

Trying to mimic the early stages of reproduction, Cambridge University researchers cultivated two types of mouse stem cells in a Petri dish and watched an embryo emerge -- one that closely resembled a natural mouse embryo in its architecture, its development process and its ability to assemble itself.

The proportion of Zika-related birth defects during 2016 was nearly 20 times higher than the number seen during the pre-Zika years, according to a new report from the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Marine Le Pen's bid to become the next French president has hit another stumble after members of the European Parliament voted to lift her immunity from prosecution.

Former President Barack Obama has been named the 2017 "Profile in Courage" award honoree by the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation.

Top House Intel Committee member Adam Schiff expressed frustration Thursday about FBI Director James Comey, saying the FBI was not forthcoming about their investigation of ties between Russia and the Trump administration, and said for the first time there should be a special prosecutor to investigate.

The New York Times is reporting Obama White House officials left a "trail of evidence" about Russian interference in the 2016 election. CNN's Sara Murray reports.

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