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The former top US intelligence official on Thursday disagreed with President Donald Trump's claim that foreign actors besides Russia may have attempted to influence the 2016 presidential election.

President Donald Trump still can't commit.

German riot police have clashed with protesters in Hamburg on Thursday evening as world leaders arrived ahead of Friday's G20 summit.

Senate Republican leaders are considering an amendment from conservative GOP Sen. Ted Cruz to help revive a health care bill that currently lacks enough Republican support to pass -- a move that risks alienating moderates in the party.

A group of law enforcement advocates defended the Justice Department's new guidelines on drug prosecution in an op-ed posted Wednesday, writing that the Obama administration's policy of under-charging certain drug offenders had begun to leave a "devastating mark downstream on the safety of communities across the nation."

Russian spies are ramping up their intelligence-gathering efforts in the US, according to current and former US intelligence officials who say they have noticed an increase since the election.

Rep. Steve Scalise has undergone another surgery after being readmitted to an intensive care unit Wednesday because of concerns for infection.

A protester was arrested after reportedly making threatening remarks at Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake's Tuscon office around 9 a.m. Thursday morning, according to the Pima County Sheriff's Department.

Imagine being around for an open house at your own home. Now imagine that the person coming to tour just beat you out for your job. Also you live in the White House and you are President.

The Republican chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee released a new report Thursday warning that the recent influx of classified leaks to the media pose risks to national security.

Vice President Mike Pence vowed Thursday that the United States will send astronauts to the moon and Mars, setting new goals for American space exploration under the Trump administration.

The Justice Department is fighting a lawsuit filed by a privacy group to stop President Donald Trump's Advisory Commission on Election Integrity from collecting voter information across the country, hoping to persuade a federal judge Thursday that the Trump administration is taking adequate steps to protect the data.

President Donald Trump, coming off a short visit to Poland, was greeted here in Germany on Thursday by the complex reality of foreign relations in the form of a pre-G20 meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

When German Chancellor Angela Merkel visited the White House back in March, she and President Donald Trump didn't shake hands. And it was suuuuuuper awkward.

An LGBTQ legal advocacy group is appealing an employment discrimination case to the Supreme Court, the group announced Thursday, after a federal appeals court declined to rehear the case.

Every past US president, when they traveled abroad, has served as a sort of brand ambassador for America -- touting the country's greatness and working to advance its priorities on the world stage.

Five senior Democratic senators involved in national security, foreign policy and intelligence wrote President Donald Trump in a letter published Thursday, urging him to use his upcoming bilateral meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin to "make absolutely clear" that Russian interference in US elections "will in no way be tolerated."

A former Breitbart writer and ally of Steve Bannon's is leaving the White House after less than six months of serving as the deputy chief of staff for the National Security Council.

The US military will no longer release any immediate information about American combat deaths in Afghanistan -- a shift in policy that will delay casualty announcements until days after they occur.

Walter Shaub, director of the little-known Office of Government Ethics, is leaving government.