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Alexander Hamilton is enjoying quite an influential renaissance. The Broadway musical bearing his name received a record-setting 16 Tony nominations and took center stage of the political universe when Brandon Victor Dixon (aka Aaron Burr) made a direct appeal to Vice-President-elect Mike Pence at a performance shortly after the election.

Hours after a planned evacuation of people from bombarded areas of eastern Aleppo, no one has left, according to a monitoring group.

The US ambassador to the UN unleashed a scathing attack on the Syrian government and its allies on the humanitarian crisis unfolding in Aleppo.

Kanye West's meeting with president-elect Donald Trump suggests that, symbolically at least, black people did not just lose the presidential election -- we've lost our damn minds.

In the wake of ISIS' brutality, some of Iraq's religious and ethnic minority communities teeter on extinction. Here are their voices.

In his 2008 campaign, presidential candidate Barack Obama found that fiery speeches about the damaging role of special interest influence, lobbyists and the need to "change the culture in Washington" were enormously popular on the campaign trail. More recently, President-elect Donald Trump was even more successful in employing even more sweeping assurances about, as he put it, "draining the swamp."

There is no escaping US politics these days. Even in remote northeastern Nigeria, where I have just spent two months with the International Rescue Committee, most of the televisions are set to international news networks which are covering the presidential transition in excruciating detail.

Even though homelessness in America's cities continues to decline, food banks and pantries are still being stretched thin as the number of people seeking emergency food assistance climbs, according to a survey of mayors from 38 of the nation's cities.

Fierce protests erupted in 15 Brazilian cities Tuesday as the country's Senate approved a controversial 20-year austerity plan.

To understand the rising popularity of Holland's populist, Geert Wilders, CNN's Nic Robertson meets Wilders' supporters.

An Afghan boy who gained online fame after a picture of him wearing a makeshift Lionel Messi jersey went viral has finally met his football hero in Doha, Qatar.

Scientists in India have taken inspiration from J.K. Rowling's "Harry Potter" series of books and movies in naming a distinctive new species of spider.

The Syrian government has established control over eastern Aleppo, Vitaly Churkin, Russia's Ambassador to the United Nations, told the UN Security Council on Tuesday.

Earlier this month, the Libyan city of Sirte was liberated from ISIS. Manu Brabo photographed the bloody battle and the devastation it left behind.

Think of Beertopia as Asia's younger, smaller-scale answer to the Great American Beer Festival.

Venezuelan officials have confiscated nearly 5 million toys from a toy distributor, accusing the company of planning to sell them at inflated prices during the Christmas season.

People in eastern Aleppo are posting desperate "goodbye" messages as government forces close in on the ever-shrinking rebel-held enclave.

The last 48 hours have been the most savage yet for the people of Aleppo, where unarmed civilians have reportedly been shot on the spot, poison gas has been used indiscriminately and activists have posted tragic goodbyes on social media as they await capture or worse.