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Donald Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, personally assured skittish acquaintances the President-elect didn't really believe some of the more outrageous claims he was making, according to a new New York magazine profile.

Hillary Clinton confidante Neera Tanden says she doesn't expect Clinton to run for New York City mayor -- or anything else, ever again.

UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson arrived in the US on Sunday for what his office said was a series of meetings with President-elect Donald Trump's closest advisers and congressional leaders.

In his new book, photographer Mark Peterson showcases the "theatrical nature" of politics.

Many of President-elect Donald Trump's Cabinet nominees have still not been properly vetted less than one week before hearings begin on Capitol Hill, the Office of Government Ethics said in a letter to Democratic senators Friday.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Sunday he believes President-elect Donald Trump's hopes of working more cooperatively with Russia "will be dashed pretty quickly."

Mitt Romney publicly backed President-elect Donald Trump's education secretary nominee in a Washington Post op-ed published Saturday.

Top Donald Trump aide Kellyanne Conway deflected questions about Russia's hacking of Democratic operatives Sunday, while insisting those hacks to nothing to tilt the presidential race's outcome.

Top Donald Trump aide Kellyanne Conway -- who is set to become a senior White House adviser -- wouldn't commit to a time line for replacing Obamacare, despite a claim by a top Republican senator about Trump's position.

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The US intelligence community concluded that Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered an "influence campaign" to harm Hillary Clinton's chances of winning the 2016 election.

Sen. Jeff Sessions is preparing for yet another confirmation hearing in the Senate Judiciary Committee.

US Secret Service Director Joseph Clancy wants to set the record straight about President-elect Donald Trump's private security team and whether it's causing conflict with his agents detailed to Trump.

Michael Hayden, a former head of the CIA and National Security Agency, said Saturday that the newly-released intelligence report describing Russia's efforts to undermine the US election was "a brick short of a load."

President-elect Donald Trump is continuing to resist conclusions reached by US intelligence agencies on Russian involvement in the 2016 election, and on Saturday defended his long-held belief that closer ties with Russia would be good for the US.

Now that he's about to assume office, the real costs of the "great, great" wall Donald Trump promised to build during his campaign are beginning to settle in -- and threaten to divide the President-elect and thrifty Republicans on Capitol Hill.

In the first days of 2017, legislators in five states have introduced so-called "bathroom bills" restricting access to public accommodations.

The Trump transition team clashed with former Gen. James Mattis, the President-elect's choice for secretary of defense, over the transition selecting a secretary of the Army without his input, several sources told CNN.

Former Mexican President Vicente Fox is back to trolling Donald Trump on Twitter, particularly as the US President-elect has waffled on his pledge to have Mexico pay for a border wall and amid questions about Russian interference in the election.