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WASHINGTON — (CNN) Grilled by Senate Democrats on Thursday, Steven Mnuchin firmly defended his record as a banker. He insisted that regulators — not the California bank he owned — we...

  WASHINGTON — (CNN) Outgoing Secretary of State John Kerry made a surprise appearance in the State Department briefing room Thursday, bringing along a special guest: his dog Ben. Ben was m...

ITALY — (CNN) Rescuers were searching into the night Thursday for any survivors of an avalanche that killed at least two people and blasted a resort hotel in central Italy.As night fell, as many...

INDIANAPOLIS — (CNN) Two grateful Carrier workers are making the trip to Washington D.C. to watch Donald Trump’s inauguration as the 45th President of the United States.Those two workers, ...

WASHINGTON — (CNN) President Barack Obama granted 330 commutations, the White House announced Thursday, the most commutations given in a single day by a US president.The announcement comes withi...

Former President George H.W. Bush and former first lady Barbara Bush are “both on the upswing,” Bush family spokesman Jim McGrath said Thursday, adding, “they may not be out of the w...

 NEW YORK — (CNN) President-elect Donald Trump said Thursday he has selected New York Jets’ owner Woody Johnson, one of the top fundraisers of his presidential campaign, to serve as U...

 MICHIGAN — (CNN) A teacher is under fire for refusing to let his fourth grade students watch the inauguration speech of President-Elect Donald Trump.Brett Meteyer, of Explorer Elementary i...

WASHINGTON — (CNN) Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said Thursday that Democrats are only prepared to move ahead on two of President-elect Donald Trump’s nominees on Inauguration Day, ...

WASHINGTON — (CNN) Rick Perry once famously forgot that the Energy Department was on the list of government agencies he would like to shut down.On Thursday, Perry asked a group of senators for t...