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Next month, President-elect Donald Trump will become the third US president to be inaugurated in the 21st century, an age shaped by computers and the Internet.

For all his social media prowess, the 70-year-old incoming president remains skeptical of emails, the Internet and, ultimately, "the whole ... age of computer."

President Barack Obama, at long, long last, responded forcefully to Russia's unprecedented interference in America's democratic process. We can all wonder what might have happened if he had acted sooner, but that question no longer matters.

President Barack Obama took an unprecedented step Thursday in issuing an executive order against six Russian individuals and five Russian entities in relation to what the Treasury Department said was to address "Significant Malicious Cyber-Enable Activities."

You may never have heard of him, but without this bear you might never have seen a panda in your local zoo.

Twenty-three of the world's most prominent human rights voices, including Malala Yousafzai, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Richard Branson, are calling on the United Nations Security Council to intervene to end "ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity" in western Myanmar.

According to a South Korean report, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has sown a climate of fear by the use of public executions. CNN's Saima Mohsin tells the story.

2016 has been a tough year for many. The Kardashians aren't exempt.

Take a look at photos of the week from December 23 through December 30.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has announced a ceasefire between the Syrian government and the opposition, Russian state media TASS reports.

A former police officer charged with murdering a black motorist in North Charleston, South Carolina, will go on trial for a second time on March 1, a court has ordered.

Israel, and by extension the United States, are poised at the entrance to a dangerous path. The model democracy of the Middle East risks transforming into a global pariah on the scale of South Africa when it was in the depths of its apartheid nightmare.

During the presidential campaign, Donald Trump famously fired a broadside at the First Amendment by promising to "open up the libel laws." Today, his wife, Melania Trump, has a case pending against writers who she says defamed her, and some speculate that this is only the beginning of the Trump family war on the First Amendment.

President-elect Donald Trump said it's time for the US to "move on to bigger and better things" following the sanctions announced by President Barack Obama Thursday against Russia, but said he'd be briefed next week about the issue.

After months of no signs of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al Baghdadi, a US official told CNN on Thursday, "in the last few weeks we've been aware of some of Baghdadi's movements."

A new report claims North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un has ordered 340 people to be executed he came to power in 2011.

As his second term as President of the United States nears its end, Barack Obama reflected on the role friendship has played in his life in a wide-ranging exit interview with his friend and former senior adviser David Axelrod, saying his relationships have given him "serenity."

Being "unsinkable" is practically impossible when others keep trying to hold you down. Debbie Reynolds spent a great deal of her life dealing with men who tried to take advantage of her.

A look at some of the many different styles adopted by Serena Williams throughout her dazzling tennis career.

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey wants to know how to make the social platform better in 2017.