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By Ariane de Vogue WASHINGTON — (CNN) Five Supreme Court justices Tuesday seemed to agree with arguments that a Texas death row inmate should not be executed because he is intellectually disable...

Alicia AbelsonWMAL.comWASHINGTON — (WMAL) Bei Bei, the one-year-old giant panda cub at the Smithsonian National Zoo, is all smiles during his recovery from an emergency lifesaving surgery on Fri...

NEW YORK — (CNN) President-elect Donald Trump has selected Georgia Representative Tom Price, an ardent critic of Obamacare, to head the Department of Health and Human Services, according to an o...

GATLINBURG, TN — (CNN) Fanned by strong winds and the Southeast’s worst drought in nearly a decade, at least 14 fires burned in and around Gatlinburg, Tennessee, forcing evacuations from t...

MEDELLIN, COLOMBIA — (CNN) Authorities say they’ve found a sixth survivor of a plane crash in Colombia. The man was found under the fuselage, according to Mauricio Parodi, a local disaster...

WASHINGTON — (CNN) President-elect Donald Trump met Monday with former Gen. David Petraeus and Tuesday will sit with Mitt Romney as he looks to fill out his Cabinet. Trump will also sit down Tue...

IRAN — (CNN) A US Navy Seahawk helicopter had what the Navy is calling an “unsafe and unprofessional encounter” with an Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps patrol boat Saturday near th...

ATLANTA — (CNN) Delta Air Lines has apologized for failing to eject a Donald Trump supporter from one of its flights after he yelled at other passengers, calling some of the women on the plane &...

WASHINGTON — (CNN) President-elect Donald Trump wins Michigan’s 16 electoral votes, the secretary of state’s office announced on Monday.This brings the final electoral tally for Trum...

WASHINGTON — (CNN) President-elect Donald Trump threatened Monday to “terminate” the Obama administration’s efforts to normalize US-Cuba relations.“If Cuba is unwilling t...