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President Barack Obama issued what will likely be his final commutations and pardons as commander in chief on Tuesday afternoon. The commutations were for 200 people, including Chelsea Manning, the army private and analy...

Secretary of Defense Ash Carter opposed President Obama's decision to commute the sentence of Chelsea Manning, according to a report. The opposition to letting Manning off the hook for violating the Espionage Act came du...

President-elect Donald J. Trump will take office with less popular support than any new president in modern times, according to an array of polls.

Five people were killed in the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport shooting rampage

Summer Zervos and her lawyer, Gloria Allred, announced the lawsuit against the president-elect, alleging that he defamed her when he accused her of fabricating the assault.

Vice President Joe Biden is torn when it comes to the presidential election -- he still questions his decision not to run and regrets not going with a different message while campaigning for Hillary Clinton. In a series ...

ATLANTA -- Police say they have arrested the owner of two pit bulls that killed one child and injured another in southwest Atlanta. Atlanta Police Sgt. Warren Pickard says Cameron Tucker was arrested after the children w...

"Representative Price's record shows that he's clearly not up to the job"

On Tuesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin insisted Donald Trump never played around with prostitutes in a Moscow hotel - but called his country's hookers "the best in the world." "Natasha," a 24-year-old prostitute wh...

"The quality of mercy is not strained; it droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven," Portia famously tells Shylock, who is demanding a pound of flesh from her friend Antonio in William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice...

SCITUATE, R.I. -- Two sisters who disappeared from Rhode Island with their mother in 1985 have been located in the Houston area, and their mother was charged with snatching them, police announced Tuesday. An anonymous ti...

A Senate hearing for Ms. DeVos, a billionaire who did not attend public schools or send her children to them, became a debate over how to spend public money on education.

President Obama's sweeping last-minute pardons Tuesday included one of the city's most famous nightlife impresarios and a Hall of Fame baseball player. Among the 273 people on the latest White House pardon and commutatio...

A South Korean court has begun reviewing the arrest of a Samsung Electronics vice chairman who faces allegations of bribery, embezzlement and perjury. Lee Jae-yong, the only son of the …

A spate of polls released over the last few days show that the American public doesn’t have a high opinion of Donald Trump’s transition or high hopes for his presidency. Of course, Trump didn’t pass up the opportun...

Early on in Betsy DeVos' confirmation hearing to become President-elect Donald Trump's education secretary Tuesday afternoon, Sen. Bernie Sanders sized up the wealthy philanthropist and let loose: "Do you think that if y...

Donald Trump is having a tough time securing performers for his inauguration. Earlier this week, the Bruce Springsteen cover band slated to play an inauguration gala nixed its plans; before that, Broadway singer Jennifer...

Germany's vice chancellor on Wednesday harshly condemned remarks by a prominent member of the nationalist Alternative for Germany party, who suggested ending the country's decades-long tradition of acknowledging and aton...

Romania's government is proposing to pardon thousands of prisoners, in a drive to reduce overcrowding in prisons. The justice ministry published a draft plan on Wednesday, surprising Romania's top prosecutor …

"This is a moment to lead boldly"

Donald Trump hasn't even been sworn in as president -- but he's already come up with his reelection slogan. "Are you ready?" Trump asked a Washington Post reporter interviewing him at Trump Tower, seeming to have come up...

A new species of moth with a wingspan of a mere 0.4 inches, beady eyes, golden coif -- and small genitalia -- has been named after the soon-to-be 45th US president. And ironically, Neopalpa donaldtrumpi‘s native habita...