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Jared Kushner's web of business interests is much smaller than Donald Trump's -- but could be more difficult to untangle.

By selecting ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson to serve as secretary of state, Donald Trump on Tuesday guaranteed that his four most influential departments will, if confirmed, be led entirely by white males for the first time since George H.W. Bush's first cabinet was approved in 1989.

A campaign of US-led airstrikes has winnowed ISIS' ranks to between 12,000 and 15,000 "battle ready" fighters, a top US official said on Tuesday.

Anthony Scaramucci, a member of Donald Trump's Presidential Transition Team Executive Committee, said the scientific community gets a lot of things wrong during a conversation about climate change.

NFL legend Jim Brown stopped by Trump Tower Tuesday for a meeting pegged as a discussion about issues facing the African-American community, saying he "fell in love" with President-elect Donald Trump.

As Donald Trump mulls over a list of potential justices, his promise to reshape the Supreme Court is energizing opponents of abortion and galvanizing some state legislators to advance and defend more restrictions on the practice.

Once a week, a dozen or so grandmothers trickle into an elementary school to spend an evening enjoying one of their favorite hobbies: Basketball.

President-elect Donald Trump has selected former Texas Gov. Rick Perry to be his nominee for energy secretary, multiple transition sources told CNN Tuesday, which would make him head of an agency he once sought to eliminate.

George W. Bush tried it. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton tried it. Now Donald Trump is vowing to reset relations with Russia.

Boosters of Donald Trump's candidate to be the next secretary of state talk about his experience leading one of the world's largest companies -- and so do his detractors.

Kanye West will not perform at Donald Trump's inauguration in January, despite his high-profile meeting with the President-elect on Tuesday, the chairman of Trump's presidential inaugural committee, Tom Barrack, told CNN's Erin Burnett on Tuesday.

President-elect Donald Trump continued his "thank you" tour with a lovefest in Wisconsin Tuesday, thanking voters in the traditionally blue state he unexpectedly turned red and praising one-time antagonist House Speaker Paul Ryan during their first joint appearance.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi cast doubt Tuesday on congressional Republicans' and President-elect Donald Trump's plans to rollback Obamacare.

Rudy Giuliani offered his support for President-elect Donald Trump's decision to nominate Rex Tillerson as secretary of state.

Democratic Sen. Chris Coons is set to visit Trump Tower on Wednesday, alongside Republican Sen. John Boozman, and will invite President-elect Donald Trump to the annual National Prayer Breakfast in Washington.

Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, a former rival of President-elect Donald Trump, said Tuesday indicated he's willing to support the incoming president's secretary of state nominee, Rex Tillerson.

President-elect Donald Trump has chosen Montana Republican Rep. Ryan Zinke as his nominee to lead the Interior Department.

Secretary of state nominee Rex Tillerson's difficult path to confirmation will begin early next month in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee's hearing room, where one Republican's "serious concerns" about the ExxonMobil chief executive's close ties to Russia could sink his nomination before it even gets to the Senate floor.

Three ISIS leaders were killed last week by a coalition airstrike in ISIS' self-declared capital, Raqqa, Syria, the Pentagon said Tuesday.

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.