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Electoral College electors will not receive an intelligence briefing on Russian interference in the 2016 election, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence said Friday.

Hillary Clinton said Thursday night that Russian President Vladimir Putin's alleged involvement in the hacking of Democratic organizations during the 2016 election stemmed from a longtime grudge Putin has held against her.

Attorney General Loretta Lynch defended the FBI's handling of investigations into Russian interference in the 2016 election, swatting away criticism from Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman as uninformed.

President Barack Obama took a minute during his Friday news conference to offer up White House medial services to an individual who appeared to have fainted.

Republican Sen. Bob Corker tweeted Friday that he had a very "good conversation" with President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for secretary of state, ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson, adding that he spoke with former President George W. Bush who "spoke highly" of Tillerson.

Donald Trump is busy building his Cabinet and planning his agenda, but he isn't really, officially going to be President quite yet. One of the peculiarities of American democracy is that it's actually a group of 538 "electors" -- members of the Electoral College -- in this nation of 318 million who actually pick the president.

President Barack Obama harshly accused the Syrian regime, along with Moscow and Tehran, with slaughtering civilians in Aleppo.

Donald Trump supporter and actor Scott Baio filed a police report earlier this week with the Ventura County police department in Thousand Oaks, California, accusing Nancy Mack, the wife Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith of battery.

The ACLU expects more religious freedom bills to be introduced in 2017 than ever before following the election of Donald Trump.

President Barack Obama remembered the late "colorful" Turner sportscaster Craig Sager in a tweet Friday as "what sports should be."

Following the election of Donald Trump, Michelle Obama said many Americans now know what it's like not to have hope.

While advisers to Donald Trump and President Barack Obama spar over Russia, the President-elect met with is meeting with the outgoing homeland security chief Friday.

Republican Rep. Dana Rohrabacher said Thursday that it was "terrific" that voters got more truthful information about Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign, regardless of whether the hackers were Russian.

The North Carolina man whom police say fired an assault rifle in a Washington pizzeria while investigating an online conspiracy theory known as "Pizzagate" pleaded not guilty to all charges in federal court Friday.

Fox News analyst Monica Crowley, Donald Trump's pick to be senior director of strategic communications for the National Security Council, repeatedly pushed an unfounded conspiracy theory that claimed Hillary Clinton's aide Huma Abedin has ties to Islamic extremists.

Senior Trump transition adviser Kellyanne Conway said Friday that President Barack Obama should should end his administration's public feud with President-elect Donald Trump over the intelligence community's assertion of Russia's election meddling -- out of patriotism.

President-elect Donald Trump said Thursday he will nominate campaign adviser David Friedman to serve as the US ambassador to Israel.

Reince Priebus, Donald Trump's selection to serve as chief of staff, will meet with his outgoing predecessor at the White House Friday as part of a larger session with former occupants of the top West Wing job, according to people familiar with the session.

The United States must either stop accusing Russia of meddling in its elections or prove it, a spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin said Friday.

A US oceanographic vessel Thursday had its underwater drone stolen by a Chinese warship literally right in front of the eyes of the American crew, a US defense official told CNN Friday.