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On November 16, college students across the US held walkouts to pressure their schools to protect undocumented students.

A former Southwest Airlines employee used a rifle to kill a current airline employee who was leaving work at Oklahoma's Will Rogers World Airport and heading to his car, police said Wednesday.

Magician David Blaine stuns celebrities Drake, Dave Chappelle and Stephen Curry with an unusual magic trick.

The next battleground over immigration might not be anywhere near the border.

More than 200 people have been hospitalized with breathing difficulties in Tennessee as wildfires scorched across the Southeast.

Donald Trump's top white house adviser Steve Bannon is a controversial figure because he ran Breitbart News - a website known for its inflammatory headlines. CNN's Tom Foreman reports.

A leading Republican lawmaker is calling for investigations into alleged Russian cyberhacks during the US election despite President-elect Donald Trump's repeated calls for warmer ties with Moscow.

At least 87 people, including four children, were killed Wednesday in a Syrian regime blitz on war-ravaged eastern Aleppo and the surrounding countryside. The bombings pounded hospitals, a blood bank and targets near schools, activists and medical staff said.

On Wednesday, I joined my students at New York University in a walkout organized in an attempt to pressure the university to declare NYU a sanctuary campus. In the wake of Donald Trump's election, students across the country have staged similar walkouts and protests.

Ahmad Khan Rahimi, accused of injuring 29 people by setting off bombs in New York and New Jersey in September, was charged Wednesday in New Jersey and Manhattan.

President-elect Donald Trump's decision to install Myron Ebell as the head of his EPA transition team has drawn scrutiny from the activist community. CNN's Jake Tapper reports.

Draining the swamp?

President Barack Obama is making a final international swing as President, visiting Greece, Germany and Peru.

Donald Trump was elected president because he spoke to a working class upset with elites, politics as usual, and its own lack of economic progress. Fair enough.

Long Island resident Colleen Dyckman realized she accidentally threw her weddings rings in the trash and spent four hours frantically searching for them at the town garbage dump.

In the years that I've been writing and talking about politics and public policy, I have learned one very sobering lesson: It's nearly impossible to get people to care about even the most troubling and horrific problems if they are happening on the other side of the world.

The Minnesota police officer who fatally shot Philando Castile during a traffic stop has been charged with second-degree manslaughter and two felony counts of dangerous discharge of a firearm, Ramsey County Attorney John Choi announced Wednesday.

Republicans re-elected Mitch McConnell as Senate Majority Leader Wednesday while Democrats tapped Chuck Schumer as their leader as both sides prepare for critical battles with the incoming Trump administration.

Can tall tales swing an election? That's the question being asked today in conference rooms across the digital media industry.

President-elect Donald Trump promised during his campaign to "drain the swamp" of Washington. And he is right that many Americans believe their capital to be inundated with lobbyists, campaign contributors and influence peddlers. But to reform Washington, Trump will have to address conflicts of interest that are already apparent in his transition team. Unless these problems are fixed, his administration will have little credibility in ethics by the time he reaches the White House -- and that will mean reform of the rest of Washington will be very difficult.