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Winston Churchill once called Russia "a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma." The same could be said of President-elect Donald Trump.

Trump Tower in Manhattan, home to President-elect Donald Trump and a fixture of American politics for the last 18 months, has become a de facto "fortress" as security measures go into place for the incoming president.

President-elect Donald Trump hasn't yet publicly named a chief of staff, but already, a major tea party group is warning him against naming one of his reported top choices.

The strong reaction to President-elect Donald Trump's victory has led to a backlash of another kind -- this one among his supporters.

President-elect Donald Trump appeared open Friday to compromising on his oft-repeated pledge to repeal and replace Obamacare.

Nearly 18 million voters cast ballots this election despite believing that neither Donald Trump nor Hillary Clinton were qualified to be president.

Hillary Clinton, not looking to "sugarcoat it," told volunteers Friday night on a conference call that "these have been very, very tough days."

Oprah Winfrey said in an interview published Friday she was heartened by the meeting between President Barack Obama and President-elect Donald Trump this week, saying it "gave me hope."

As Democrats reel in the wake of Donald Trump's stunning victory, a new storm is brewing inside the party as competing factions begin to grapple for its leadership.

President-elect Donald Trump told "60 Minutes" correspondent Leslie Stahl that Hillary Clinton made a "lovely" phone call to him to concede the presidential race.

The North Carolina Republican Party condemned the Ku Klux Klan on Friday after the racist group announced a parade to celebrate President-elect Donald Trump's win in the Tar Heel State.

The Republican Party's most senior national security experts denounced their presidential candidate during the campaign as too reckless to lead the nation safely.

One of the more sensational and controversial pledges President-Elect Donald Trump made on the campaign trail was that he would seek to "lock up" his opponent, Hillary Clinton, whether for her controversial practice of using a private e-mail server for much of her official State Department correspondence or other crimes.

Sen. Bernie Sanders' wife, Jane, dismissed speculation Friday that her husband was considering another bid for the White House in 2020.

House Democrats are still picking up the pieces after Hillary Clinton's stunning upset on Tuesday, but are likely to keep Nancy Pelosi in place to continue charting the strategy as their top leader.

Less than 48 hours after all the polls closed, President-elect Donald Trump took to Twitter Thursday to call the widespread protests around the country against his presidential victory "very unfair."

The sting of defeat is still fresh.

The country on Tuesday elected for president a man who once proposed "a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States."

A top aide to Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke of points of agreement between the Kremlin and President-elect Donald Trump in a wide-ranging interview with CNN Friday, even as he said the relationship with the current White House is "lousy."

Vice President-elect Mike Pence will lead the presidential transition now, a source on transition planning told CNN.