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WASHINGTON — (CNN) Congress approved a $1.1 trillion spending package on Friday that avoids a government shutdown and funds federal agencies through next fall.In a surprise, the House overwhelmi...

WASHINGTON — (CNN) President Barack Obama will use his final State of the Union address in January to deliver a “non-traditional” speech to the American people that focuses on his vi...

ROME — (CNN) Pope Francis has recognized a second miracle attributed to Mother Teresa, paving her way to sainthood.On Thursday, he ratified a miracle attributed to her after her death, the Itali...

WASHINGTON — (CNN) He ran his companies “like a Ponzi scheme.” The charges he faces represent a “trifecta of lies, deceit, and greed.” That is how federal law enforcement...

WASHINGTON — (CNN) Federal prosecutors are expected to file charges against a friend and former neighbor of San Bernardino attacker Syed Rizwan Farook, law enforcement officials told CNN Thursda...

WASHINGTON — (CNN) Donald Trump has said that he would “get along very well” with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Apparently, the feeling is mutual. Putin offered high praise for t...

WASHINGTON — (CNN) As his administration prepares an executive order tightening access to guns, President Barack Obama met Wednesday with former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, a proponen...

WEST POINT, NY — (CNN) Americans kidnapped by jihadist groups are killed at nearly four times the rate of other Western hostages in captivity, while American hostages are the least likely to be ...

LOS ANGELES — (CNN) Donald Trump has written many books, but never one for children. On Wednesday night’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live” that may have changed. The late night host told th...

BALTIMORE — (CNN) CNN senior legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin has a term for where he thinks the prosecution in the case of Baltimore police Officer William Porter is right now. “Up a creek,&#...