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Europe has extended economic sanctions on Russia for another six months, despite indications that President-elect Donald Trump could try to repair ties with Moscow.

Incoming National Security Adviser Michael Flynn claimed in a speech this year that most education in the Middle East takes place in Islamic religious schools called madrasas and that those schools are "hate factories."

Kim Kardashian West appears to be slowly coming back to us.

Footprints discovered in Tanzania give insight into the lives of a pre-human species.

James Corden caps off 2016 with a Christmas edition of "Carpool Karaoke" featuring Selena Gomez, Lady Gaga, Adele, and more.

Think you're not affected by the massive hack of 500 million Yahoo accounts? Think again.

Yahoo has announced another huge security breach, leaving its users fretting once again about their personal information.

President Barack Obama on Thursday vowed retaliatory action against Russia for its meddling in the US presidential election.

Americans throw away 2.5 million plastic bottles every hour. But there's often a simple, perfectly good alternative to bottled water.

Russian cyberhacking activity has continued largely unabated since the November election, including against US political organizations, US officials briefed on the investigation told CNN on Thursday.

As he does with considerable regularity, Donald Trump has elevated the eyebrows of the foreign policy establishment with his practice of undergoing intelligence briefings only once a week on average, instead of daily. Now his team says that he is getting the President's Daily Brief three times a week, along with daily briefings from his appointee for national security adviser.

Many Americans, from every walk of life and across the political divide, have their own stories of how Obamacare kept them from losing their homes when they got sick, how it eliminated out-of-pocket costs for preventive screenings that saved their lives, and how it made the difference in caring for their children with pre-existing conditions like asthma or epilepsy. Obamacare is working, saving both lives and livelihoods for working Americans.

Terry Beasley, a star receiver at Auburn University, spent three years in the NFL playing for the San Francisco 49ers. He's one of thousands of retired pro players who will soon benefit from a multi-million dollar concussion settlement with the NFL.

If you were in London recently and happened to notice a ginger strolling down the street with a brunette, it may have been a royal sighting.

With his four most recent Cabinet picks, President-elect Donald Trump leaves little doubt where he is headed on energy and climate change. The selections of Rex Tillerson, Scott Pruitt, Rick Perry and Ryan Zinke are quite stunning. Rex Tillerson, for example: the problem with him as secretary of state is not his ties to Russia at a moment of heightened tensions and charges of election tampering. The problem -- at least if you are worried about global warming -- is his background as the CEO of ExxonMobil.

The party of Reagan is fast lurching into a mini-Cold War with itself -- this time over working with Russia rather than against it.

Donald Trump's dismissal of US intelligence about Russian election meddling has deeply alarmed the White House, prompting a new and combative approach to the President-elect that's caused rifts between the incoming and outgoing administrations.

China has lost its crown as the United States' biggest overseas creditor. That title now belongs to Japan.

Residents of Corpus Christi, Texas, were coping Thursday with using only bottled water for everything from drinking to bathing after officials warned that "unknown" chemicals had possibly contaminated the city's water supply.

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