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Condoleezza Rice and Robert Gates both played a crucial role in convincing President-elect Donald Trump to pick ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson as his nominee for secretary of state -- and they worked with him at their firm that professionally consulted for Tillerson's company.

Katrina Pierson, a spokesperson for Donald Trump and fixture on cable news, is seeking a role in his administration, according to two sources with knowledge of the matter.

President-elect Donald Trump's proposed Cabinet looks straight out of central casting -- only it's for the wrong movie. His choices to lead the Departments of Education, Labor, State, and Treasury are all former business executives. They're perfectly suited to serve as corporate directors of any Fortune 500 company. But as heads of America's most important agencies, they're a troubling fit.

The Food and Drug Administration has announced a series of recalls for powdered milk products that may be contaminated with salmonella.

Activists who have demonstrated for months against the Dakota Access Pipeline may have some fuel to justify their protests.

Knoxville News-Sentinel columnist Sam Venable knew he'd found a sad story, but he didn't know just how many hearts it would break.

Actress Jennifer Lawrence is apologizing for a story she told on "The Graham Norton Show" that angered many Hawaiians.

Opposition to Rex Tillerson as the next secretary of state heightened Tuesday as Marco Rubio, a key Republican vote on the panel that oversees his confirmation, said he had "serious concerns about his nomination."

Before Aleppo was a city under siege and the front line of the civil war in Syria, it was a bustling city. Aleppo was a commercial hub, home to a souk and a citadel, to a grand mosque and to more than 2 million people.

President-elect Donald Trump has proven to be as unconventional -- and at times outright hostile -- in his interactions with the press during his transition as he was in his campaign.

Pastor yells "Santa does not exist" at kids waiting to meet St. Nick. CNN's Jeanne Moos says parents were seeing red.

Cold Stone Creamery employee Justine Elwood is receiving support from her community after a customer fat-shamed her.

In an interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer, Dmitri Alperovitch, whose firm investigated the DNC hack, said that their firm did, in fact, catch two groups associated with Russian intelligence agencies in the act.

People in eastern Aleppo are posting desperate "goodbye" messages as government forces close in on the ever-shrinking rebel-held enclave.

The top Senate Republican joined the growing chorus of powerful voices on Capitol Hill Monday calling for a bipartisan probe of alleged Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.

The past week has not been a kind one to Georgia's small-town police officers.

I first started working with UNICEF when I was playing football for Manchester United. During a preseason tour with the club to Thailand in 2001, I visited a local child protection center that was providing vital support to children as young as five who'd experienced violence and abuse. Seeing the organization's incredible work firsthand had a great impact on me, especially as my son Brooklyn was just 2 years old at the time, and as a new father I wanted to do what I could to help.

He was recently chosen by President-elect to be Secretary of Defense, but just who is James Mattis?

Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid said Monday FBI Director James Comey was "heavily involved as a partisan" in the weeks leading up to the election and that Comey's actions handed the presidency to Donald Trump.

It's always 4/20 somewhere — at least in Colorado. The state's marijuana shops have reached a massive new milestone: $1 billion in legal, regulated sales in the first 10 months of 2016.