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Rex Tillerson, the millionaire rumored to be Donald Trump's favored pick to lead the State Department, could have trouble getting Senate confirmation for the job, senior lawmakers tell CNN.

The Obama administration is suspending certain arms sales to Saudi Arabia and limiting military support for the kingdom's campaign in Yemen over concerns about civilian casualties, two administration sources said Tuesday.

The top Senate Republican joined the growing chorus of powerful voices on Capitol Hill Monday calling for a bipartisan probe of alleged Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.

Nearly two dozen Democratic senators are calling on Donald Trump to sell his business holdings to avoid conflicts of interest when he becomes president.

Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid said Monday FBI Director James Comey was "heavily involved as a partisan" in the weeks leading up to the election and that Comey's actions handed the presidency to Donald Trump.

Donald Trump is not even President yet, but he's already turning US foreign policy on two of the biggest challenges to American power -- China and Russia -- on its head.

Sen. Joe Manchin will not serve in Donald Trump's Cabinet, the Democratic West Virginian said in a statement Tuesday.

Kanye West met with President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday, after he was spotted arriving at Trump Tower in New York City, only days after the rapper first came back into the public eye following his hospitalization.

Secretary of Defense Ash Carter announced Tuesday that Sirte, Libya, is now free of ISIS.

Donald Trump has decided to postpone his first press conference as President-elect until January, two transition sources confirmed to CNN.

Former Pennsylvania Democratic Rep. Chaka Fattah was sentenced to ten years in federal prison Monday after a judge found him guilty on charges of racketeering, fraud and money laundering.

Donald Trump likes to boast about the size of his win over Hillary Clinton in the Electoral College. The problem is he has an inflated sense of the word "landslide."

Ivanka Trump, the President-elect's daughter, appears slated to be more involved in Trump's new political empire than his old business one.

President-elect Donald Trump will select ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson to serve as secretary of state, multiple sources told CNN Monday night, setting up a heated Senate confirmation battle and signaling a desire to ease Washington's estrangement with Russia.

Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman John Podesta on Monday backed Electoral College electors who are asking to receive an intelligence briefing on foreign interventions into the 2016 election ahead of their December 19 vote.

Mitt Romney confirmed Monday night he's not Donald Trump's pick for secretary of state.

Donald Trump's team maintains there is no evidence that Russia hackings favored him in the presidential race, but a top adviser also said the President-elect would not "interfere" in any congressional investigations into what happened.

Former CIA Director James Woolsey defended President-elect Donald Trump Monday night amid criticism that he reportedly skips intelligence briefings.

Donald Trump won't get Rex Tillerson as secretary of state without a fight.

China has warned that it's "seriously concerned" after President-elect Donald Trump questioned whether the United States should keep its long-standing position that Taiwan is part of "one China."