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If current transition plans hold, James Mattis will walk into the Pentagon around noon on Saturday having been sworn-in as the 26th secretary of defense after retiring a few years ago as a decades-long serving Marine.

Katie Danziger, a mom of three in New York City, remembers when her daughter, a college senior, called last year as there were demonstrations around racial issues on campuses across the country.

Miguel Ferrer, a familiar face on the big and small screens, died Thursday following a battle with throat cancer, according to a statement from his current employer CBS. He was 61.

Late night show hosts are poking fun of a photo of Donald Trump writing his inaugural address at his Mar-a-Lago home.

Video that appears to be taken at the Bandung Zoo in Indonesia shows bears emaciated and begging for food.

It might literally rain on Donald Trump's parade.

Rescuers were searching into the night Thursday for any survivors of an avalanche that killed at least two people and blasted a resort hotel in central Italy.

Republican strategist Ana Navarro said Thursday she's disappointed that President-elect Donald Trump's Cabinet will be the first in decades without a Latino member.

Indian-American and the son of an immigrant, DJ Ravidrums has accepted an invitation to perform at Donald Trump's inauguration.

The incessant shouts carry through air vents and heavy metal doors. It's how the segregated prisoners commiserate about life behind bars. Such is life in the most restricted units of the nine-story Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC) in Brooklyn.

Donald Trump has arrived in Washington -- and he's going to be here for at least four years.

US B-2 bombers struck ISIS camps in southern Libya overnight, several US officials told CNN Thursday.

An Orlando judge denied bond Thursday morning to Markeith Loyd, who is suspected of fatally shooting his pregnant girlfriend and later a police officer who tried to arrest him.

The Pentagon announced Thursday that four more inmates were transferred out of the US military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, marking the final such transfer under President Barack Obama and leaving the facility's population at 41.

Van Jones and Jeffrey Lord debate the timing of "El Chapo" being extradited to the US.

Donald Trump placed the wreath at Arlington National Cemetery in one of the kick-off ceremonial events in advance of his inauguration at the Capitol on Friday.

Rick Santorum says he doesn't believe Russia was behind the hack into Democratic National Committee emails last year that US intelligence agencies say was an effort by Moscow to throw the election to Donald Trump.

The actor Jon Voight spoke during President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration concert, saying "God answered our prayers."