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WASHINGTON — (CNN) President Barack Obama dished out some final Thanksgiving puns Wednesday as he performed the ceremonial White House task of pardoning turkeys. Obama was joined at the Rose Gar...

  Joelle Fredman WMAL.com WASHINGTON — (WMAL) President-elect Donald Trump’s wish for this Thanksgiving is for America to come back together. In a Thanksgiving video message, Trump sa...

WASHINGTON — (CNN) Just weeks after its debut, the Navy’s most technologically advanced destroyer, the USS Zumwalt, has been put out of action due to engineering problems that occurred whi...

 WASHINGTON — (CNN) President-elect Donald Trump tapped Betsy DeVos, a top Republican donor and school choice activist, to head the Department of Education, the Trump transition team announ...

 IRAN — (CNN) Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Wednesday his country will react if the United States renews sanctions against the Islamic Republic.“If this sanc...

By Catherine E. Shoichet, Mayra Cuevas, Madison Park, Natisha Lance and Martin SavidgeWASHINGTON — (CNN) The mangled wreckage of the school bus has been cleared.The screams that pierced the Chat...

By Laura Smith-Spark WASHINGTON — (CNN) The US government has identified a suspect believed to have been involved in the planning of ISIS attacks that rocked the French capital a year ago and Br...

By Jim Acosta and Adrienne Shih WASHINGTON — (CNN) President-elect Donald Trump has picked South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley to be the US ambassador to the United Nations, according to a source fa...

SAN FRANCISCO — (CNN) Twitter has been left red-faced after it briefly suspended its own CEO’s account. For a while late Tuesday, attempts to reach Jack Dorsey’s profile produced an ...

NEW YORK — (CNN) Some of the country’s top journalists issued stark warnings about the importance of protecting First Amendment rights on Tuesday night, two weeks after Donald Trump was el...