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Donald Trump said the focus on Russia involvement in the 2016 election is "a political witch hunt."

"I am so sorry," says an emotional Memet Kocarslan, the owner of the Istanbul nightclub where a gunman massacred 39 people in the first minutes of 2017.

At least 33 inmates are dead following a prison riot in northern Brazil on Friday, according to state-run news agency Agencia Brasil. The riot took place at the Agricultural Penitentiary of Monte Cristo, according to the news agency. In October, 25 people were killed at a riot at the same prison.

For years, the battered 9,500-year-old Jericho Skull has been one of the British Museum's most chilling exhibits -- as well as its oldest portrait.

President Barack Obama challenged Republicans on Friday to spell out their plan for replacing his signature health law, insisting he's open to new ideas, but casting doubt on what his political rivals can muster.

Friends and family held a private memorial Thursday for actresses Carrie Fisher and her mother, Debbie Reynolds.

Award-winning paralympic athlete Anne Wafula Strike says she was forced to wet herself as the only toilet she had access to on a train was out of order.

President-elect Trump has vowed to make health care great again, but Americans are almost evenly divided over whether he can deliver on that promise.

US intelligence has identified the go-betweens the Russians used to provide stolen emails to WikiLeaks, according to US officials familiar with the classified intelligence review that was presented to President Barack Obama on Thursday.

Donald Trump's Twitter campaign against the auto industry has gone global.

"The Wizard of Oz" has inspired plenty of re-imagination, much of it (see "Wicked") quite wonderful. But the road to reinvention hits a brick wall with "Emerald City," an NBC series that seeks to transform the colorful story into a gritty, half-baked version of "Game of Thrones," yielding some visual splendor but mostly lots of sheer awfulness.

Norway is set to be the first country in the world to phase out FM radio. FM stations will begin to go silent in parts of the country next week and the shutdown process will be complete by the end of 2017, according to the government.

Donald Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway on Friday rejected the intelligence community's assessment that Russia meddled in the 2016 election, saying "conclusive evidence" has not yet been provided to the President-elect.

The feud between Donald Trump and the US intelligence community will play out out behind closed doors Friday when the President-elect is given a briefing on allegations of election-related hacking by Russia.

Apple's sales slump is taking a bite out of Tim Cook's paycheck

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In December, his final full month in office, the U.S. economy added a slightly disappointing 156,000 jobs. It marked the 75th consecutive month of job gains. For all of 2016, the U.S. added over 2 million new jobs.

New Yorkers are about to lose one of their last excuses for not responding to work calls.