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If acceptance is the last stage of grief, Democrats have a way to go before they'll get over this election. From the moment the blue wall crumbled and formerly safe states flipped to Donald Trump, the left has had a tenuous grasp on political reality. Rather than accepting that Trump will be the President on January 20, many have instead jumped from one desperate strategy to another in an effort to overturn the will of the American voters.

In hindsight I suppose it was unsurprising and perhaps somewhat inevitable that it was Elton John who really taught me about eyeglasses.

Antonio Guterres cheerfully walked into the United Nations on Tuesday to officially assume his position as secretary-general.

Department of Homeland Secretary Jeh Johnson is warning lawmakers that personal information collected by his agency for applications for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival, or so-called Dreamers, should not be used in the future to deport them.

The US administration is "is 100% certain in the role that Russia played" in election-related hacking, State Department Spokesman John Kirby told CNN.

Republicans are just getting started on their years-long dream of repealing Obamacare, and already, there are fears that things are moving too fast.

A newspaper report that a mob of men molested women on the streets of an Indian city on New Year's Eve sparked controversy and concern after a government official confirmed it, but the police denied that any such thing happened.

Time for a long trip along the new silk road.

The NAACP is staging a sit-in at the Mobile, Alabama, office of US Sen. Jeff Sessions to protest Sessions' nomination as US attorney general.

The history of biofuel production in Africa is marked with expensive and damaging failures.

It's that time of year when many of us take a cold, hard look at our lives -- and, more important, our vices -- to set a goal we believe will make us healthier or happier in the year ahead.

Lego is making its blocks smarter.

The president of a historically black college will announce Wednesday if the band will perform at President-elect Donald Trump's inaugural parade.

ExxonMobil and Rex Tillerson have announced their plan to address concerns about the huge nest egg the oil giant has promised to its former CEO.

Face down in the mud, a baby boy lies still after washing up on a river bank.

Wendy's got into an argument on Twitter over whether their beef really is fresh and not frozen. CNN's Anderson Cooper reports.

While two twins were playing, a dresser almost crushed one of them. Watch the brother's incredible rescue.

Charles Manson, the cult leader whose followers committed heinous murders that shocked the nation almost a half century ago, has been hospitalized, the Los Angeles Times and TMZ reported on Tuesday.

Standing in front of a bright red banner reading "Build Israel Great Again," former Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee promised Tuesday during an appearance in the West Bank that President-elect Donald Trump's policies toward Israel would be very different than President Barack Obama's.

Another day of combing Lake Erie turned up empty Tuesday in a search for a small plane authorities believe crashed after taking off from a Cleveland airport.