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WASHINGTON (AP) – The Senate has confirmed Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch, bringing a contentious 14-month partisan battle to a close after the death of Justice Antonin Scalia. The vote was ...

 WASHINGTON — (AP) Sen. John McCain, the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, says President Donald Trump must “be prepared to take other action” in Syria.In an inte...

(CNN) — Russian President Vladimir Putin has denounced the US strike against a Syrian government airbase as “aggression against a sovereign state in violation of the norms of international...

WASHINGTON — (CNN) Judge Neil Gorsuch may be heading toward final confirmation later today, but he won’t be formally sworn in until early next week.President Donald Trump is likely to admi...

 WASHINGTON — (CNN) Rep. Mike Conaway has been given the reins to the House intelligence committee’s fractured Russia investigation following chairman Rep. Devin Nunes’ announce...

NEW YORK — (CNN) Hillary Clinton referred to Russia’s meddling in the 2016 US presidential election as an “act of aggression” on Thursday, in her most extended comments yet abo...

CONNECTICUT — (CNN) Another one bites the dust. Aetna announced Thursday that this would be the last year it participates on the Obamacare exchange in Iowa, where it is the dominant insurer. The...

(CNN) — “My fellow Americans, on Tuesday, Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad launched a horrible chemical weapons attack on innocent civilians. Using a deadly nerve agent, Assad choked out th...

FLORIDA — (AP) A Florida city is saying “game over” to a business owner’s decision to inflate a 9-foot-tall (2.7-meter-tall) Super Mario outside his shop. Scott Fisher owns a v...

WASHINGTON — (CNN) A GOP lawmaker said he is ashamed that a fellow lawmaker is a Republican after he used Russian President Vladimir Putin’s “talking points” to dismiss Preside...