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On Wednesday, I joined my students at New York University in a walkout organized in an attempt to pressure the university to declare NYU a sanctuary campus. In the wake of Donald Trump's election, students across the country have staged similar walkouts and protests.

Ahmad Khan Rahimi, accused of injuring 29 people by setting off bombs in New York and New Jersey in September, was charged Wednesday in New Jersey and Manhattan.

President-elect Donald Trump's decision to install Myron Ebell as the head of his EPA transition team has drawn scrutiny from the activist community. CNN's Jake Tapper reports.

Draining the swamp?

President Barack Obama is making a final international swing as President, visiting Greece, Germany and Peru.

Donald Trump was elected president because he spoke to a working class upset with elites, politics as usual, and its own lack of economic progress. Fair enough.

Long Island resident Colleen Dyckman realized she accidentally threw her weddings rings in the trash and spent four hours frantically searching for them at the town garbage dump.

In the years that I've been writing and talking about politics and public policy, I have learned one very sobering lesson: It's nearly impossible to get people to care about even the most troubling and horrific problems if they are happening on the other side of the world.

The Minnesota police officer who fatally shot Philando Castile during a traffic stop has been charged with second-degree manslaughter and two felony counts of dangerous discharge of a firearm, Ramsey County Attorney John Choi announced Wednesday.

Republicans re-elected Mitch McConnell as Senate Majority Leader Wednesday while Democrats tapped Chuck Schumer as their leader as both sides prepare for critical battles with the incoming Trump administration.

Can tall tales swing an election? That's the question being asked today in conference rooms across the digital media industry.

President-elect Donald Trump promised during his campaign to "drain the swamp" of Washington. And he is right that many Americans believe their capital to be inundated with lobbyists, campaign contributors and influence peddlers. But to reform Washington, Trump will have to address conflicts of interest that are already apparent in his transition team. Unless these problems are fixed, his administration will have little credibility in ethics by the time he reaches the White House -- and that will mean reform of the rest of Washington will be very difficult.

The last time I saw Miguel he gave me a copy of the US Constitution as a gift.

Three buildings bearing the name "Trump Place" took their signs down in New York City's Upper West Side after renters petitioned. The buildings are no longer owned by the Trump Organization.

On his final state tour as President of the United States, Barack Obama will visit the Acropolis, the ancient Greek monument known as the "cradle of democracy".

Donald Trump's turbulent transition already suggests that the instinctive off-the-cuff leadership style that powered his outsider campaign is a prototype of the impromptu approach he will adopt from inside the Oval Office.

Rudy Giuliani has a long record of defending and advocating for undocumented immigrants as mayor of New York City, a CNN KFile review of his public statements as mayor reveals.

Twitter has suspended the accounts of a number of people associated with the alt-right movement who advocate white nationalism and who supported President-elect Donald Trump.

Women sick of receiving unsolicited advice can now call a "mansplaining" hotline to report their condescending male colleagues.