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Beginning on January 20, President-elect Donald Trump will be accompanied at all times by a military aide carrying the nuclear "football," enabling him to order a nuclear strike at a moment's notice.

Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe says he wants to "build trust" with US President-elect Donald Trump when the two meet in New York Thursday, as he seeks to safeguard the long-standing alliance between the two countries.

As President-elect Donald Trump considers the current Supreme Court vacancy, Justices Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas and other legal giants kicked off a conference bringing together judicial conservatives from all over the country.

The youngest son of longtime US Rep. John Conyers (D-Michigan) is missing in Texas, and the clues into his disappearance are particularly puzzling.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Thursday he had a "very candid discussion" with President-elect Donald Trump, during a brief press availability following their in-person meeting.

At rallies in the last weeks of his presidential campaign, Donald Trump told his supporters "my plan ends illegal immigration and suspends immigration from terror problem regions" and that "we will stop illegal immigration, deport all criminal aliens... and it will happen within the first week of my presidency."

Bernie Sanders is back on the stump.

He's a real estate mogul-turned-President-elect, and now, one of Donald Trump's promises to the American people is to rebuild America's infrastructure.

The son of top Donald Trump adviser and retired Gen. Michael Flynn regularly shares conspiracy theories, expletive-filled posts, and racially insensitive sentiments on Twitter and Facebook, a CNN KFile review of his social media presence reveals.

The presidential transition of Donald Trump has started to lay its foundation for moving forward after days of overhaul and uncertainty paused work to build out the President-elect's administration.

CNN reporters who covered the Trump campaign reflect on one moment from the 2016 campaign they will always remember.

A pair of high-profile senators are making a bipartisan push to try and curb growing anti-Semitism in Europe at a time when such fears have spiked in the US following Donald Trump's election.

President-elect Donald Trump will meet this weekend with one of his fiercest critics: 2012 Republican nominee Mitt Romney, a senior Republican source told CNN on Thursday.

The battle for America's political soul could come down to a street brawl between two boys from Queens and Brooklyn.

Old ideas that never had a realistic chance of becoming law are being brought out for another try.

Devastated. Ecstatic. Afraid. Hopeful.

President-elect Donald Trump will host a new round of rallies in the coming weeks to celebrate his 2016 election win, according to one of his top aides.

President-elect Donald Trump will find himself with an unlikely ally If he makes good on his promise to be an economic populist challenging corporate America, Bernie Sanders said Thursday.

Nancy Pelosi may have a fight on her hands.

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, in a 2012 appearance on Serbian television, discussed his then-ongoing consulting work for Serbian politicians as well as work he did in other foreign nations.