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WASHINGTON — (CNN) Shortly before and during his massacre at Orlando’s Pulse gay nightclub, Omar Mateen vented on Facebook. “America and Russia stop bombing the Islamic state,”...

WASHINGTON — (CNN) Sen. John McCain said Thursday that President Barack Obama was “directly responsible” for the massacre at the gay nightclub in Orlando. “Barack Obama is dire...

WASHINGTON — (CNN) A federal judge tossed a suit Thursday brought by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton seeking to suspend the resettlement of Syrian refugees in Texas. Texas had argued that the ...

WASHINGTON — (CNN) As a family mourns the death of their son, investigators are trying to pinpoint which alligator grabbed the 2-year-old and pulled him into a lagoon near a Walt Disney World ho...

Sara Sidner, Ashley Fantz and Faith KarimiSANTA CLARA, CA — (CNN)A California judge who sentenced former Stanford University swimmer Brock Turner to six months in jail for sexual assault has bee...

Artemis Moshtaghian and Joe Sterling TEHRAN, IRAN — (CNN) A British-Iranian dual citizen has been accused of working with organizations allegedly attempting to overthrow the Iranian government, ...

Schams Elwazer MANAMA, BAHRAIN — (CNN) A Bahrain court has suspended the main Shiite opposition party and frozen its assets — a move that threatens to bring unrest to the tiny island kingd...

WASHINGTON — (CNN) As Democrats turn to the general election, “hundreds” of staffers from Hillary Clinton’s campaign have begun to transition to the payroll at the Democratic N...

WASHINGTON — (CNN) — Senate Democrats have ended a 14-plus hour filibuster calling for gun control reform. Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy held the Senate floor early into Thursday morning, v...

WASHINGTON — (CNN) FBI investigators don’t believe that the wife of the Orlando gunman was a co-conspirator in the attack that killed 49 people at a gay nightclub, but she told investigato...