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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s pick to head the CIA, Gina Haspel, would be the first female director of the intelligence agency if confirmed.Haspel, who served as deputy director of...

NEW YORK - Fired FBI Director James Comey is scheduled to appear on ABC's "The View."Host Whoopi Goldberg on Tuesday announced that Comey will participate in his first daytime talk show interview on A...

WASHINGTON - Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke has bristled under questioning by Democrats about his spending on travel as the Trump administration seeks deep cuts to conservation programs and fee increas...

WASHINGTON – Secretary of State Rex Tillerson says he is delegating his responsibilities at the end of the workday Tuesday to Deputy Secretary of State John Sullivan. Speaking to reporters hours...

NEW YORK - A former top aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo was convicted on corruption charges Tuesday at a trial that further exposed the state capital's culture of backroom deal-making. A federal jury in Man...

FLORIDA — Prosecutors will seek to put Nikolas Cruz to death for carrying out last month’s massacre at a Parkland, Florida, high school, they announced in court filings Tuesday. A Broward ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Two U.S. officials say the White House has fired one of Rex Tillerson's top aides after he contradicted the official account of the secretary of state's dismissal by President Donald...

ALABAMA — A bus carrying Houston-area band students fell into a 50-foot ravine in Baldwin County, Alabama, early Tuesday morning, killing the driver, police said. The crash and rescue effort clo...

NEW YORK (AP) - Joy Behar of "The View" is apologizing for comments she made for equating people's claims that Jesus Christ talks to them to mental illness. Her apology on "The View" Tuesday came afte...

WASHINGTON — Sen. Bob Corker, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said in a statement that Mike Pompeo’s confirmation hearing for secretary of state will be in April, but d...