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US President-elect calls Clinton's effort to force recount in three states as 'sad', adding 'nothing will change'. Hillary Clinton's decision to join an effort to force recounts of votes from the November 8 election in up to three crucial states has been labelled "sad" by ...

By Stephen Collinson, Jeremy Diamond and Daniella Diaz, CNN Washington (CNN)Donald Trump's campaign says the billionaire now believes President Barack Obama was born in the United States -- but the Republican nominee still can't bring himself to say it out loud and in public. Instead, the...

Fatimah Hussein was born in Somalia and immigrated to Minneapolis when she was 6 with her family, fleeing civil war. Ms. Hussein and her sister played softball when they were young, but in middle school they stopped, as did many of their Muslim peers. “It...

The U.S. military says it has carried out three "precision airstrikes" in southern Somalia that killed six members of the al-Shabab extremist group. A U.S. Africa Command statement says the strikes occurred Wednesday morning about 260 kilometers (160 miles) south of the capital, Mogadishu. The...

By Barbara Starr Washington (CNN)The US has reached the preliminary conclusion that Russian warplanes bombed an aid convoy and warehouse belonging to the Syrian Arab Red Crescent, two US officials told CNN. "All the evidence we have points to that conclusion," one of the officials said. However,...

This weekend, Ifrah Mansour performs her one-woman show, "How to Have Fun in a Civil War," at the Children's Theatre Company in Minneapolis. The show is not only suitable for kids — it's told from a child's point of view. She says she wrote the play...

US Vice-President Joe Biden has a blunt suggestion for President-elect Donald Trump: It is time to "grow up." Asked about a few of Trump's controversial remarks and tweets since winning the November election, Biden had some intemperate comments of his own. "Grow up Donald, grow up,...

Democrat Hillary Clinton called on Friday for voters to reject the "bigotry" of Donald Trump's White House campaign, releasing a television ad criticizing his efforts to appeal to black voters and saying she was reaching out to people from all parties who are troubled...

WASHINGTON Yahoo said Wednesday personal data from over a billion users was stolen in a hack dating back to 2013 — twice as big as another breach disclosed just three months ago. In a huge blow to the struggling internet pioneer, Yahoo said it made the...

By Marcus Harton, Esha Sarai WASHINGTON — Each visitor has a minute to pick just five items to take on their mock-refugee journey. Choices include cards representing water, shoes, a fishing pole, medicine, blankets and other more sentimental items, like family photos. "Connectivity, identification ..." a...