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Melania Trump is beginning to forge her own path as America's first lady, assembling a team of aides and advisers. But the name of one longtime confidante, and perhaps her most trusted friend, won't be announced with a news release or statement or a new title: her sister, Ines Knauss.

In the beginning, they didn't care for Donald Trump.

David Cassidy, the 66-year-old singer and actor, says he is battling dementia.

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Severe storms hit California over the weekend, causing flooding, damage and blackouts across the state.

"Refugees welcome," read a 20-foot red and white banner that hung across the Statue of Liberty on Tuesday.

A longtime California police officer was killed Monday when a recently paroled gang member involved in an auto accident opened fire, authorities said.

A bull that escaped a slaughterhouse before running through the streets of New York on Tuesday morning later died, authorities said.

A 25-year-old Jefferson City, Missouri, man was charged with attempting to provide material support to people he thought were ISIS-inspired terrorists, according to the US Attorney's Office.

US Park Police discovered several instances of bizarre, conspiratorial graffiti at the Lincoln Memorial, the Washington Monument and the World War II Memorial over President's Day weekend, officials said.

Recently unearthed remarks in which he seemed to endorse sexual relationships between "younger boys and older men" cost him two opportunities to reach a larger audience.

Abdalla hears his English teacher's voice beaming across the room like a ray of sunshine.

UPS is joining the ranks of Amazon and Domino's by investing in drone delivery.

Would you want to take a 3-year-old on a 16-hour flight?

The Trump administration on Tuesday delivered its most explicit embrace yet of Obama-era protections for young undocumented immigrants -- while at the same time issuing new rules that immigration advocates fear effectively chips away at the previous barriers to deportation.