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WASHINGTON — (CNN) First lady Melania Trump called for women’s empowerment and celebration of diversity in rare remarks Wednesday morning at the State Department.“As leaders, we must...

WASHINGTON — (AP) Education Secretary Betsy DeVos says her predecessor wasted billions of dollars trying to fix traditional public schools.DeVos says former Education Secretary Arne Duncan’...

NEW JERSEY — (CNN) New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie will take on an advisory role to help figure out ways the Trump administration can fight the opioid epidemic.Christie told ABC’s “Go...

DALLAS — (CNN) Former President George W. Bush will attend a fundraiser this weekend in support of a Republican candidate for governor of Virginia, Ed Gillespie. The fundraiser will take place i...

SAN FRANCISCO — (CNN) Hillary Clinton took the stage at a diversity conference in San Francisco on Tuesday, making her most political comments since losing the 2016 presidential election. “...

SPUR, TX — (CNN) The three storm chasers pursued the raging tornadoes for years. When others fled, they drove closer to the spinning winds. That’s what they were doing Tuesday, when their ...

WASHINGTON — (CNN) Newly installed Democratic National Committee chairman Tom Perez has asked all he committee’s staffers to submit their resignations by April 15 as he begins an overhaul ...

CONGO — (AP) Congolese authorities say the bodies of an American and a Swedish U.N. expert and their interpreter have been found in the Central Kasai region where they recently disappeared.Polic...

PARIS — (AP) The wife of French presidential candidate Francois Fillon is facing preliminary charges over well-paid parliamentary jobs that investigators suspect she never performed.Fillon himse...

WASHINGTON — (CNN) Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell announced Tuesday the Senate will vote on Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch next Friday, April 7, before lawmakers leave Washington for...