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Just weeks after ISIS suffered a major loss when its chief spokesman was killed in an air attack, the US quickly targeted his designated successor in a strike, but the outcome is not yet known.

Donald Trump on Thursday again refused to say whether he believes President Barack Obama was born in the US, despite recent efforts by his top surrogates to downplay the "birther" controversy.

Up to 40 US Special Operations Forces are accompanying Turkish troops as they clear ISIS from northern Syria, two US officials told CNN Friday.

Hundreds of US troops have arrived at an air base 40 miles south of Mosul to support Iraq's efforts to liberate that city from ISIS, a US defense official told CNN.

Ohio Gov. John Kasich will meet with President Barack Obama at the White House Friday as part of an effort to push the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal.

Is Donald Trump still a birther? His campaign says no.

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Any decision by Donald Trump to publicly say whether he believes President Barack Obama was born in the US is only up to him, campaign senior adviser Boris Epshteyn said Friday in a heated exchange with CNN's Chris Cuomo.

Harry Reid fired back against Donald Trump on Friday, as the two political opponents continue their war of words.

The Food and Drug Administration issues warning letters to retailers for selling e-cigarettes and other tobacco products to minors.

Hillary Clinton used humor Friday to address her recent pneumonia diagnosis, telling an audience of black women in Washington that the upside was that it "finally got some Republicans interested in women's health."

Sen. Bernie Sanders sarcastically dismissed a statement from Donald Trump's campaign saying that the Republican nominee now believes President Barack Obama is a US citizen, arguing that the "birther" movement is about "delegitimizing the first African-American president in the history of our country."

Lt. Gen. Vincent Stewart, the first African-American director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, has the weight of the country's safety on his shoulders -- and then some.

Donald Trump Jr. vigorously denied that he was referencing the Holocaust when he sarcastically cited "warming up the gas chamber" in an interview this week, saying Friday that he "didn't say anything about the Holocaust" and that the controversy was an example of media bias.

Musician Leafar Seyer has a message for Latinos who might feel singled out by what he sees as the divisive rhetoric in this presidential campaign: "Unidos jamas seran vencidos," which means: "United, we will never be defeated."

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said Friday that Donald Trump's comments on President Barack Obama's birth are a reflection of other Republican lawmakers.

Bill Clinton's irrepressible love of balloons was on full display Thursday night when Comedy Central's "Daily Show" host Trevor Noah surprised him with a convention-style balloon drop, prompting the former president to quip, "I really am in my second childhood."

The Trump kids aren't alright.

Friday marks POW/MIA Recognition Day, meant to mark the sacrifice made by American prisoners of war and those still missing in action.

The crash of a Blue Angels flight while it was preparing for an air show in Tennessee in June was a result of pilot error, a Navy report says.