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Slain Texas police Detective Jerry Walker was a trained marksman who understood the human side of policing.

A massive white Islamic flag signals our entry into rebel-held northern Syria on a cold, cloudy winter day.

President-elect Donald Trump's foray into health policy was perhaps best described by a senior Republican congressional aide with a long history of working through the complexities of the issue as "not helpful."

Chicago just ended its deadliest year in nearly two decades.

Scott Pruitt, Donald Trump's pick to lead the Environmental Protection Agency, broke with the President-elect Wednesday and said he doesn't believe climate change is a "hoax."

The Obama administration is dropping a last-minute effort to force hundreds of school districts to shift nearly $1 billion in spending from well-financed elementary and secondary schools to their schools with large numbers of low-income students.

The job should have been routine. Tasked with checking out an underground pipeline beneath a newly paved road, a Florida utility worker lifted a manhole cover and climbed down.

Soon-to-be First Lady Melania Trump is considering a man among several other candidates to become the next White House social secretary, according to two people with knowledge of East Wing personnel deliberations.

Shortly before noon on Friday a military aide will enter the Capitol with President Obama carrying a leather-covered aluminum briefcase with the information and equipment needed to launch nuclear war. Precisely at noon, control of that briefcase will pass to a man who has been described by scores of security experts in his own party as lacking the judgment, temperament and knowledge to command nuclear weapons.

Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard -- a sharp critic of US involvement in Syria's civil war -- is currently on what her office is calling a "fact-finding" trip to that country.

The Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C. is refusing to provide additional information about a report saying that members of the media have been barred from the premises this week.

I first realized that Donald Trump might actually win the presidency when I was with my mom last fall at Deaconess Gateway Hospital in Evansville, Indiana, where she was recovering from knee replacement surgery.

President Barack Obama says his two daughters' reactions to the 2016 election should serve as a model for younger Americans who were disappointed in the outcome.

It's been almost 900 days since the US-led war on ISIS began. But as the Trump administration nears -- with its promise to bomb "the s*** out of ISIS" -- where does the campaign against the militant group stand?

Last year was officially the Earth's warmest since record-keeping began in the 1880s, the World Meteorological Organization announced Wednesday morning.

Donald Trump is turning the world upside down.

Parts of Houston were at a standstill Wednesday morning as more than five inches of rain fell across the metro area.