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  NORFOLK, Va. (AP) – The U.S. attorney general has reaffirmed the Trump Administration’s call for a border wall with Mexico and for a switch to a “merit-based” immigratio...

NEW YORK (AP) – KFC has picked singer Reba McEntire to play Colonel Sanders, the first female celebrity in the role. In commercials starting next week, McEntire dons the Colonel’s famous w...

East Lansing, MI — Michigan State University Athletic Director Mark Hollis said Friday he is retiring, just two days after former MSU sports physician Larry Nassar was sentenced to decades in pr...

LONDON — Six male staffers at the BBC, including some of the network’s top hosts, have agreed to take pay cuts to help remedy a gender pay gap. Women at the publicly-funded broadcaster hav...

Los Angeles, Ca. — Anchor Jemele Hill is leaving SportsCenter to head to The Undefeated, ESPN’s site about the intersection of sports, race and culture.A source familiar with the issue con...

DAVOS, SWITZERLAND — President Donald Trump put on his salesman’s hat on Friday during his address to a den of the world’s power players, hailing America’s economic success fro...

WASHINGTON — Anthony Scaramucci, the former White House communications director, told CNN’s Chris Cuomo that a New York Times story was “totally irrelevant” because President D...

COLORADO SPRINGS, CO — The US Olympic Committee’s CEO has asked all members of the USA Gymnastics board of directors to resign, according to a letter obtained by CNN. Scott Blackmun said U...

SEOUL — Joint military exercises involving tens of thousands of troops from the United States and South Korea are set to resume after the Winter Olympics, a South Korean defense official said Fr...

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump denied on Friday that he had moved to fire special counsel Robert Mueller. He had called for the firing last June, according to one person familiar with the m...