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"President Trump really is inheriting an economy that's pretty solid," said Kevin Hassett, an economist at the conservative American Enterprise Institute, on CNBC Friday.

President Barack Obama now supports women registering for the Selective Service -- a shift in the White House's previous position.

As the harsh North Dakota winter approaches and protests grow even more tense, the Standing Rock Sioux and their supporters are rising to crescendo in the fight against the Dakota Access Pipeline.

In the heat of a dramatic and bitter presidential campaign, CNN reporters met hundreds of voters across the country who had strong allegiances to Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton.

The American flag is flying again at Hampshire College in Massachusetts.

In Cincinnati, Donald Trump said that others were comparing him to Andrew Jackson. Nearly two centuries ago, however, that same Andrew Jackson acknowledged that his famous self-confidence had limits. "A diffidence, perhaps too just, in my own qualifications," he said in his first inaugural address, "will teach me to look with reverence to the examples of public virtue left by my illustrious predecessors."

America kept hiring amid election shock.

In June, a young boy named Gabe received life-saving brain surgery. But he felt self-conscious about the horseshoe-shaped scar that was left behind.

Trump did say on Wednesday that he will hold "a major news conference in New York City" alongside his children on December 15 to discuss what he said was his impending departure from his "great business."

The number of new HIV infections 'is not declining' and young women the world over are still at risk.

A Democratic congressman from Illinois said Friday he will boycott the inauguration of Donald Trump because he said the President-elect spews "hatred, bigotry and prejudice."

Vice President-elect Mike Pence is renting a home in Washington until his swearing in. Several of his neighbors have responded with a symbol of gay rights.

Say you somehow fell asleep before the clock struck midnight on December 31, 2015, and you're just now stirring from your slumber. Or, perhaps you live under an exceptionally large boulder.

Former NFL running back Joe McKnight was shot and killed in an intersection in Terrytown, Louisiana.

Last December 2, more than a dozen people died in a massacre in San Bernardino, California, when a married couple opened fire at a holiday party in the Inland Regional Center, a state-run social services agency.

The devastating wildfires that struck this week in Gatlinburg, Tennessee, could not have been stopped, experts say.

Former astronaut Buzz Aldrin, the second person to walk on the moon in 1969, is being evacuated from the South Pole after his medical condition deteriorated, according to a release by the National Science Foundation.

Tristan Willmott is not your typical high school basketball standout. At 3'5", it's not the sophomore's ball-handling skills that make him sparkle, it's his height.

Is there any truth behind claims that the Kremlin has been using fake news to undermine the US presidential race? CNN's Jill Dougherty investigates.

For nearly six decades, Bette Nash has been sharing her contagious smile with the world -- from 30,000 feet.