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Donald Trump will become a "natural ally" of Syria if he holds fast to a hard line on terrorists.

A Cambodian legal immigrant who has faced the prospect of deportation for more than a decade because she has a criminal record spoke Wednesday about her harrowing fight to stay in the US.

For months, Obama administration officials have debated how to respond to Russian hacks they believed were intended to undermine the US elections. But they kept arriving at reasons not to respond publicly.

Republican National Committee spokesman Sean Spicer on Wednesday praised the transparency during President-elect Donald Trump's transition process, despite a lack of press conferences and Trump's repeated refusal during the campaign to release his tax returns.

Donald Trump's transition team is disavowing a questionnaire sent to the Energy Department requesting the names of employees working on climate change issues,

As President-elect Donald Trump considered Mitt Romney for secretary of state, Trump wanted one thing Romney wouldn't give him: an apology.

Incoming Chief of Staff Reince Priebus says repealing and replacing Obamacare will be be at the top of the incoming administration's agenda in what they are promising is going to be a very eventful first year.

Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt has led lawsuits against the EPA. He has written the scientific debate over climate change is "far from settled." And he said the US' unnecessary environmental regulations have drained billions from its economy.

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.