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Pastor yells "Santa does not exist" at kids waiting to meet St. Nick. CNN's Jeanne Moos says parents were seeing red.

Cold Stone Creamery employee Justine Elwood is receiving support from her community after a customer fat-shamed her.

In an interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer, Dmitri Alperovitch, whose firm investigated the DNC hack, said that their firm did, in fact, catch two groups associated with Russian intelligence agencies in the act.

People in eastern Aleppo are posting desperate "goodbye" messages as government forces close in on the ever-shrinking rebel-held enclave.

The top Senate Republican joined the growing chorus of powerful voices on Capitol Hill Monday calling for a bipartisan probe of alleged Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.

The past week has not been a kind one to Georgia's small-town police officers.

I first started working with UNICEF when I was playing football for Manchester United. During a preseason tour with the club to Thailand in 2001, I visited a local child protection center that was providing vital support to children as young as five who'd experienced violence and abuse. Seeing the organization's incredible work firsthand had a great impact on me, especially as my son Brooklyn was just 2 years old at the time, and as a new father I wanted to do what I could to help.

He was recently chosen by President-elect to be Secretary of Defense, but just who is James Mattis?

Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid said Monday FBI Director James Comey was "heavily involved as a partisan" in the weeks leading up to the election and that Comey's actions handed the presidency to Donald Trump.

It's always 4/20 somewhere — at least in Colorado. The state's marijuana shops have reached a massive new milestone: $1 billion in legal, regulated sales in the first 10 months of 2016.

Donald Trump is not even President yet, but he's already turning US foreign policy on two of the biggest challenges to American power -- China and Russia -- on its head.

If any American company stands to benefit big from lifting sanctions on Russia, it would be Exxon. And with Tillerson being nominated as Trump's secretary of state, the lifelong Exxon man may be in a prime position to make that case.

Republicans may be determined to dismantle Obamacare, but the Obama administration and leading Democrats in Congress won't let it die without a fight.

"Aleppo is being destroyed by the silence of Arabs and the entire world."

Maybe it's the time of year she was killed.

The 2016 election was not rigged by Moscow. Rex Tillerson, tipped to be the next secretary of state, is not a KGB agent.

The final days of the years-long battle for Aleppo are here. One by one, neighborhoods are falling to the Syrian regime, and those left behind face a variety of gruesome fates: Will they be trapped? Bombed? Or executed by government forces, as reports are suggesting?

Donald Trump's Cabinet is slowly taking shape, and its members seem to represent an incoherent mix of ideologies. On the one side, there are radical figures like Steve Bannon whose views on race and immigration are far outside the Republican mainstream. On the other side, there are billionaires and CEOs like (presumably) Rex Tillerson, Andrew Puzder and Steve Mnuchin who will likely implement a supercharged version of Republican economic orthodoxy.

Kanye West arrives at Trump Tower in New York to meet with President-elect Trump, two weeks after being released from the hospital in Los Angeles.