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Donald Trump has surpassed the necessary 270 votes in the Electoral College, the next step in the official process to become President. He was put over the top by electors in Texas. The Electoral College results will be officially certified January 6 during a joint session of Congress.

President-elect Donald Trump may be preparing to ring in the drastic shakeup of the Department of Veterans Affairs he promised during his campaign for president.

America, you can take off that extra scarf soon.

The California judge in the Brock Turner sexual assault trial did not abuse his authority or show bias when he sentenced the former Stanford University student to six months in jail, an independent commission concluded.

Alan Thicke was remembered by family, friends and his former "Growing Pains" co-stars at a memorial service Sunday evening.

The Charlotte city council voted to rescind its controversial "Non-Discrimination Ordinance" that allowed transgender people to use the bathroom that corresponded to their gender identity, the council announced on Monday.

Evacuations of Syrian civilians and rebels from eastern Aleppo have resumed, ahead of a UN Security Council vote on a draft resolution which would allow the UN to monitor the process.

Police are now investigating the deadly Christmas market crash in Berlin as an act of terrorism. CNN's Paul Cruickshank reports.

Andrey Karlov, Russia's ambassador to Turkey was shot dead at an art exhibition Monday.

German officials say dozens are injured and at least nine people are dead after a truck drove through a Christmas market in Berlin. CNN's Fred Pleitgen reports.

Three people were shot and injured in an "ongoing situation" near an Islamic center in Zurich, Switzerland, according to police.

British voters would repeat their decision to leave the European Union if the "Brexit" referendum were held today, according to a new CNN/ComRes poll released Monday.

A gunman shot and killed Russia's ambassador to Turkey at a photo exhibition in Ankara, Turkey, Russia's foreign ministry said.

Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen sent a clear message to young Americans on Monday: Get a college degree.

Bill Clinton says President-elect Donald Trump "doesn't know much," but that "one thing he does know is how to get angry, white men to vote for him," according to a local paper near the Clintons' New York home.

Andrey Karlov, Russia's ambassador to Turkey, was killed in a shooting in the capital of Turkey, a spokeswoman for Russia's foreign ministry announced on Russian television.

The abundance of quality TV has flummoxed writers of Top 10 lists, resulting in lengthy rosters that go well beyond that arbitrary cutoff, as writers seek to identify all the deserving programs.

The English and Scottish Football Associations have been fined by FIFA after players wore poppies on their armbands during a World Cup qualifier in November.

A fire at an equine center in Lexington, Kentucky, has left 23 thoroughbred horses dead, including a racehorse that had recently won a $100,000 stakes race and another that had been scheduled to race Monday, according to the property's owner.

Russia's ambassador to Turkey, Andrey Karlov, was shot at an art exhibition in Ankara, Turkey's official Anadolu news agency reported.