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New York's mayor says stop and frisk didn't spark the drop in New York City's crime rates; crime fell substantially before the height of stop and frisk and has fallen since its use was scaled back

Alec Baldwin has played many roles in his career, but he's about to take on the yugest one yet.

The Senate voted Wednesday to override President Barack Obama's veto of a bill that would allow victims and families of 9/11 to sue Saudi Arabia for its alleged role in the terrorist attack 15 years ago.

GOP Sen. Jeff Flake thinks he'll have a new place to call home if Donald Trump wins the presidency.

Lindsey Graham and John McCain, two of the Senate's most prominent defense hawks, are none too impressed with Secretary of State John Kerry's tough talk on Russia.

Madonna is re-inventing what it means to be nakedly political in an eyebrow-raising post to her social media accounts Wednesday, in which she uses a nude photo to back Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.

Eric Trump says it took his father a lot of "courage" to not bring up Bill Clinton's extramarital affairs during Monday's presidential debate.

As Aleppo teeters on the brink of falling to Syrian regime forces, there is no consensus in the Obama administration on what, if any, action to take to help the beleaguered opposition with which the US is allied, several American officials have told CNN.

House Republicans are pushing off a vote of contempt against the chief architect of Hillary Clinton's private email server until after the election -- clearing a partisan fight from their plate as they rush to avoid a government shutdown.

FBI Director James Comey isn't a weasel, he told lawmakers Wednesday.

Camilla Hansson, who participated in 2015's "Miss Universe" pageant as "Miss Sweden," said Donald Trump never treated her disrespectfully.

President Barack Obama sits down with CNN's Jake Tapper and a military audience to talk about national security, veterans' issues and foreign policy challenges Wednesday at 9 p.m. ET.

Shortcomings at federal and state agencies allow sales of firearms to people prohibited from buying them, a Justice Department inspector general probe found.

The director of the CIA said Wednesday despite the government's best efforts, the likelihood of terrorist activity in the United States is strong.

As Hillary Clinton on Monday night reeled off a litany of insults he had leveled against women through the years, including some nasty nicknames for a former Miss Universe, Donald Trump leaned into his microphone and asked repeatedly, "Where did you find this? Where did you find this?"

Paul Ryan has a message that Donald Trump might want to listen to: Debate prep works.

Howard Dean claimed, with no evidence, that Donald Trump's sniffling at the debate could be due to cocaine use -- a comment that's being ripped as way out of bounds, even by those in his own party.

Donald Trump repeatedly strayed from the truth Monday in his first debate with Hillary Clinton, and CNN's Reality Check Team put his statements and assertions to the test.

Rudy Giuliani blasted Hillary Clinton as "too stupid to be president" because she stayed with her husband after the Monica Lewinsky scandal.

Chelsea Clinton said Donald Trump's threat to bring up her father's marital infidelities during a presidential debate is a "distraction from his inability to talk about what's actually at stake in this election."