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Donald Trump's team, led by Vice President-elect Mike Pence, is gently sussing out what it would take to win enough support in the Senate to fill the vacant seat on the Supreme Court -- a surprisingly tough prospect with the threat of a filibuster looming and a quick deadline set by Trump.

More than 50 years after he was nearly beaten to death marching for civil rights in Alabama, Rep. John Lewis is again at the front lines of a pitched battle over America's future.

Donald Trump on Sunday night slammed outgoing CIA Director John Brennan for imploring the President-elect to put his confidence in the intelligence community and develop an "appreciation" for the effect his words could have on national security.

Oman has taken in 10 detainees from Guantanamo Bay, the sultanate's Ministry of Foreign Affairs has announced.

Secretary of State John Kerry visited on Saturday the very site where he killed a Vietnamese soldier in battle almost 50 years earlier, when his Swift Boat was attacked by the Viet Cong.

Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul on Sunday unveiled the broad strokes of his Obamacare replacement package, a measure he again said Republicans must pass "on the same day as we do repeal."

What's next when you have helped snap the two longest championship droughts in sports history and, at 43, have all but clinched clinched a place in baseball's Hall of Fame?

President-elect Donald Trump in an interview suggested that his pledge to tighten immigration restrictions could be extended to European nations, according to a Bild transcript translated by CNN from German.

Broadway star Jennifer Holliday is telling President-elect Donald Trump she's not going -- to his inauguration.

Vice President-elect Mike Pence flatly denied communication had taken place between President-elect Donald Trump's campaign and Russia after repeated questions in interviews on Sunday.

As President Obama prepares to turn the White House over to President-elect Donald Trump, he's offering some advice to his successor.

White House chief of staff Denis McDonough defended Georgia Rep. John Lewis Sunday against recent attacks from President-elect Donald Trump, but he did not agree with his claim that Trump is not "legitimate."

Take a look at the week in politics from January 8 through January 14.

Staffing shortages in a Trump White House? A Supreme Court "nuclear option." And some curious polling in New York City.

Sen. Rand Paul praised Georgia Rep. John Lewis Sunday as a civil rights icon, but said he's not "immune" to criticism from political opponents.

Over and over, the candidates to helm the Democratic National Committee stressed Saturday that they're waging a new fight against Donald Trump -- not re-fighting the old one between Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton.

A war of words is brewing between President-elect Donald Trump and civil rights icon John Lewis after the congressman doubted the President-elect's legitimacy -- and a conservative pundit says the questioning is "unprecedented."

President-elect Donald Trump's victory, as well as the emergence of far-right populist parties in Europe, "have put the postwar human rights system at risk," according to Human Rights Watch.

President-elect Donald Trump harshly responded to civil rights icon John Lewis on Friday, calling him "all talk" and "no action" after the Georgia lawmaker said Trump was not a "legitimate" president.

A high-school student's painting that evoked a national controversy earlier this week will be taken down after it was officially deemed to violate the House Office Building Commission's rules, according to a congressman who objected to the artwork.