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Donald Trump anchored his presidential campaign on defying convention and flouting political norms, and it worked better than anyone ever expected.

Donald Trump is now considering more than four people for secretary of state, senior adviser Kellyanne Conway said Sunday.

Throngs of veterans from the group "Veterans Stand for Standing Rock" were arriving at the freezing Dakota Access Pipeline protest site on Sunday, one day before authorities are expected to remove protesters.

Fidel Castro's remains were laid to rest Sunday morning in a private ceremony in Santiago de Cuba, the city where he launched his communist revolution, Cuban officials told CNN.

Amy Goodman, the host of "Democracy Now!", described her experience covering the Standing Rock protests to CNN's Brian Stelter on Sunday, including the moment when North Dakota authorities tried to arrest her.

Former CIA employee Edward Snowden says Gen. David Petraeus, who is under consideration to be secretary of state, disclosed more "highly classified" information than he ever did.

Hillary Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook acknowledged the former secretary of state calling half of Donald Trump's supporters "deplorables" alienated voters, saying that's why the Democratic presidential nominee publicly expressed regret over the remarks so quickly thereafter.

Survivor Bob Mule emotionally recounts his escape from the Oakland warehouse fire that has left dozens dead.

Donald Trump faces challenges in filling key global diplomatic posts. Might the President-elect add a Democrat or two to his Cabinet? And there's a debate swirling over who should lead the Republican National Committee.

Kellyanne Conway sits down with Jake Tapper and discusses Trump's baseless tweets about voter fraud.

The 10-minute conversation between US President-elect Donald Trump and Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen was a major break in the accepted protocol -- something that evidently does not much bother Mr. Trump. It is, of course, too soon to guess whether it was a fluke or a portent of a sea change in American policy.

David Petraeus made a last-ditch effort Sunday to show President-elect Donald Trump that his guilty plea for revealing classified information to his mistress and biographer shouldn't disqualify him from serving as America's top diplomat.

Are the images satire or bigotry? Could they be both?

The leader of a local city council and two journalists were shot dead in an attack outside a restaurant in Finland, police said.

President-elect Donald Trump has once again taken to Twitter to criticize "Saturday Night Live," this time slamming the show over a sketch about him compulsively tweeting.

Back in 1959, Fidel Castro departed Santiago de Cuba in a victorious caravan across his country to Havana. Almost six decades later, his remains were carried on the same journey, in reverse.

Donald Trump's campaign manager Kellyanne Conway said she believes the race would have been tougher for the President-elect had Hillary Clinton chosen Bernie Sanders as her running mate.

President-elect Donald Trump's decision to buck diplomatic protocol and accept a call from the leader of Taiwan didn't necessarily reflect a shift away from the "One-China" policy, Vice President-elect Mike Pence says.

Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook tells CNN's Jake Tapper that Hillary Clinton made the decision to concede to Donald Trump on her own, and not at the urging of President Obama.

Michigan's attorney general announced Friday he would file suit to stop a recount requested by Green Party candidate Dr. Jill Stein.