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Alabama Rep. Mo Brooks said in a radio interview on Tuesday that criticism of Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions, who is Donald Trump's pick to be attorney general, is part of an ongoing "war on whites" by Democrats.

Donald Trump's Cabinet picks are dropping some of his signature policy positions under the scrutiny of Senate confirmation hearings.

He seemed like such a nice man, the clean-cut 25-year old who visited a rural Wisconsin church one autumn morning in 1996, looking for a wife.

President-elect Donald Trump's pick for secretary of state has set the stage for a potential showdown with China over the South China Sea, saying that China should be denied access to the artificial islands it has built in the disputed waters.

Democrats on Capitol Hill left the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing room seething Wednesday. But it was not the testimony from witnesses that caused the only stir.

China is raising the stakes in the race for the 'tallest' man-made structures: six of the 10 tallest buildings predicted to top out in 2017 are in this booming corner of the world.

The Pentagon has deployed high-tech radar to keep watch for a potential North Korean long-range-missile launch in the coming months, according to a US defense official.  

President-elect Donald Trump's choice for secretary of state, Rex Tillerson, is facing resistance from a notable quarter -- Republican Sen. Marco Rubio.

Taiwan on Wednesday deployed fighter jets, a surveillance aircraft and Navy frigates in response to the movement of China's lone aircraft carrier into the Taiwan Strait on Wednesday, according to Taiwan's state-run Central New Agency.

Authorities said they have arrested three people they say helped a Florida man accused of killing his girlfriend last month and a police officer this week.

In a fiery exchange between CNN's Anderson Cooper and Kellyanne Conway, the senior adviser to President-elect Donald Trump vehemently denied a report that intelligence officials presented Trump with claims of Russian efforts to compromise him.

Mexico's president reiterated his nation will not pay for a wall along the US-Mexico border just hours after President-elect Donald Trump doubled-down on his campaign pledge to force the country to do so.

President-elect Donald Trump said for the first time Wednesday he believes Russia was responsible for hacking ahead of the election.

Kellyanne Conway and CNN's Anderson Cooper clashed in an interview over CNN's reporting of the classified documents presented to President Obama and President-elect Trump including allegations that Russian operatives claim to have compromising personal and financial information about Trump.

CNN political commentator Van Jones says he's suffering from an "emotional whiplash" after President Obama's farewell address and President-elect Donald Trump's first news conference.

CNN Political Commentator Van Jones says he has "emotional whiplash" from recent events -- including President Obama's farewell address followed by President-elect Donald Trump's first press conference since July 2016.

See Dave Heath's portraits of people who were in and around Washington Square Park in the 1950s. The New York City park was a popular meeting spot for members of the Beat Generation, including famous writers Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg.

Identical twin sisters, who were born in China, were separated as infants and adopted by two different families. Now 10 years later, the girls meet in person for the first time.