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Hollywood is taking a stand when it comes to education for women everywhere.

Inauguration planners rushed to wipe away a potential controversy Friday after porta-potties on the National Mall happened to be adorned with the President-elect's first name.

Approximately 300 Marines will deploy to Afghanistan's Helmand Province this spring, returning to the scene of some of the fiercest battles in America's 15-year-long engagement there.

With two bad marriages behind her and debt that came with them, Cara Brookings needed a place to stay for her and her four kids, so she used YouTube tutorials to build a new home.

With buildings painted lovely shades of pastel blue, pink and more, every day can be a celebration of Art Deco in Miami Beach.

"How do you justify saving one life when you took nine, and in such a brutal fashion?"

It was one of a thousand little conversations that fill each day in a third-grade classroom.

Much has been said over the course of "Homeland's" five-season run about its sometimes eerie relevance, but while filming Season 5, reality caught up with the show in a chilling way.

Take a look at 25 photos of the week from January 6 through January 12.

It's hard to keep up with Atlanta urologist Brian Hill.

Authorities say Brandy James locked her son, now 12, in an upstairs bathroom in her Toquerville, Utah, home for perhaps as long as two years.

January is often a depressing month for people facing months of gray winter skies. Not so for FBI Director James Comey who sounded on Thursday like he was about to contort his 6'8" frame into a happy dance to celebrate Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz's announcement that Comey, the FBI and the Justice Department will be investigated for their handling of the Hillary Clinton email investigation and other election-related issues.

Donald Trump's nominee for defense secretary cleared an important legal hurdle on Friday as the House voted largely along party lines to grant him a special exemption from a key law that had been standing in his way.

On NBC's "Meet the Press," Rep. John Lewis says that he does not see President-elect Donald Trump as a "legitimate" commander in chief in light of Russian meddling in the 2016 election.

After an uproar over the portrayal of Michael Jackson in a British TV production, Sky Arts announced it would not broadcast the episode featuring Joseph Fiennes as the late superstar.

An Arizona trooper who had been shot and was being beaten by a man with a pistol was saved Thursday by a motorist who killed his attacker, authorities said.

President Barack Obama will hold his final news conference Wednesday afternoon in the White House briefing room.

President-elect Donald Trump's relationship with Russia has never been under closer scrutiny. But this week, for the first time, the views of those who will serve alongside him at the highest level have also come under the spotlight.

CIA director nominee Rep. Mike Pompeo apologized to Sen. Dianne Feinstein in a private meeting Monday for critical comments he made about her in 2014 after she released a controversial Senate intelligence committee report detailing acts of torture by the CIA following 9/11, according to a source familiar with the issue.