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In normal times, White House press briefings make for boring television. Robert Gibbs, Jay Carney, and Josh Earnest, the three generic-looking white guys who served as successive press secretaries under President Barack ...

Edward O’Callaghan, a former federal prosecutor who assisted President Trump’s transition team, is also in the running to replace ousted US Attorney Preet Bharara, sources ​told The Post on Sunday. O’Callaghan, a...

Many people at the landfill had been scavenging items to make a living, but others live there

The number of Syrian children maimed, killed or recruited to fight increased dramatically over the past year.

Mohamedou Slahi gives an uncensored account of the now-illegal enhanced interrogation he endured

Fire officials in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, are blaming a fire that killed one girl and left two others in critical condition on a rechargeable hoverboard. On Friday night, the family heard "sizzling and cracking" coming...

Experts say the Pentagon has limited options in Syria

Malaysian authorities used fingerprint data of Kim Jong Nam that they received from Japan to identify the body of the assassinated half-brother of North Korean's dictator Kim Jong Un, according to a report. The data was ...

President Trump will host Chinese President Xi Jinping in Mar-a-Lago for a two-day visit next month, according to a report. Trump and Xi will meet at the president's Palm Beach, Fla., resort -- which he's dubbed the "Win...

Smartphones are often seen as a cause of sedentary time, not a solution to it. But new research suggests that playing the smartphone game Pokémon Go actually helps people get more exercise. In the game, people actively ...

A veteran Republican congressman says America can't restore "our civilization with somebody else's babies."

The European Union's antitrust chief says it is "a good thing" for corporate whistleblowers to alert authorities so that any possible corruption can be dealt with legally. EU Competition Commissioner …

Officials say far more than the expected 160,000 to 170,000 fans showed up for the concert by Indio Solari

The dramatic downfall of President Park Geun-hye comes at a time of heightened regional tension over South Korea's deployment of a controversial US missile defense system.

Arnold Schwarzenegger dismissed rumors he is planning to run for U.S. Senate in 2018, saying he instead plans to focus on redistricting reform across the country. Last week, Politico reported that the former California g...

Preet Bharara was fired while his office was reaching out to witnesses in an investigation into one of President Donald Trump’s favorite news outlets, Fox News, New York Magazine reports. Bharara, the former U.S. attor...

A prosecutor in Poland says that evidence shows without doubt that a Minnesota man was a Nazi unit commander suspected of contributing to the death of 44 Poles. Robert Janicki said that various evidence gathered in years...

"I'd like to see an America that's so homogenous that we look a lot the same"

The European Union has extended for six months sanctions against 150 Russia-linked people over the territorial disputes in eastern Ukraine. The EU said in a statement Monday that the asset …

The Philippine president has told the military to assert the country's ownership of a vast ocean region off its northeastern coast where Chinese survey ships were seen operating last year. …

Top Senate Democrats are warning Republicans controlling Congress against adding billions of dollars for President Donald Trump's U.S.-Mexico border wall to an upcoming $1 trillion-plus catchall spending package

White House counselor Kellyanne Conway might not have any evidence for President Trump's wiretapping claims, but she does have a lot of theories. On Sunday -- the day before Conway admitted she has "no evidence" former P...