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Ben Carson is back -- and so are the controversies and contradictions that have dominated his time in politics.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Tuesday repealing President Barack Obama's signature health care law is still "the first item up in the new year."

Officials from President-elect Donald Trump's transition team attempted to distance themselves Tuesday from Michael G. Flynn -- the son and former top aide to his father, retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, who is Trump's pick for national security adviser and was involved in the transition effort.

President-elect Donald Trump is claiming credit for a $50 billion investment in the United States by a Japanese tech conglomerate -- a deal he says wouldn't have happened without him.

Few Americans -- including Donald Trump, at least for now -- have flown aboard Air Force One.

Vice President-elect Mike Pence on Tuesday denied that the son of incoming national security adviser Michael Flynn -- who is embroiled in a fake news controversy -- had any involvement with the transition, despite the fact that he held an official government transition email address.

Ohio Gov. John Kasich doesn't want to take Donald Trump's place as President-elect of the United States.

He sold "all" of his holdings in June, according to Jason Miller, the transition team's spokesman on a call with reporters Tuesday.

The Supreme Court made it easier to prosecute some insider trading cases Tuesday, upholding the conviction of a man who traded information based on a tip.

Things just keep getting worse for New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie.

Senate Democrats are eager to make Donald Trump pay a political price for nominating staunch conservatives to fill out his Cabinet, hoping to exact revenge for the GOP's stubborn opposition to President Barack Obama's nominees.

Vice President Joe Biden said Monday, he might not be going anywhere just yet, leaving the door open to a presidential run in 2020.

Some supporters of President-elect Donald Trump have praised his choice of Ben Carson to lead the Department of Housing and Urban Development, noting that the retired neurosurgeon had lived in public housing himself.

Progressive organizations including MoveOn.org and J Street signed a letter with another 51 other nonprofit groups asking that President-elect Donald Trump dump Retired Lt. General Michael Flynn as his national security adviser.

The face of Big Oil could become America's top diplomat.

President-elect Donald Trump is making one thing clear about the Supreme Court: He wants to do more that just solidify the conservative bent on the bench.

Late April: Five Western leaders chat together, each in charge of their countries. Early December: All but one are gone from power or going. And the last one has a big challenge of her own coming up.

Judicial conservatives are buzzing about a new Supreme Court justice who could cement a conservative majority on the bench for decades.

The US military this month will return to Japan's government more than 9,800 acres of land it has held since World War II, Secretary of Defense Ash Carter said Tuesday.

A Texas elector said Monday that enough is enough -- he will not cast his vote for President-elect Donald Trump as part of the Electoral College process on December 19.