Obama urges nation to ‘forge unity’ after bitter election
By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Three days after Election Day, President Barack Obama used his last Veterans Day speech to urge Americans to learn from the example of veterans as a divided…
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Fort Trump: New security measures ring Trump Tower
By TOM HAYS Being a midtown Manhattan neighbor of Donald Trump now that he’s president-elect has come to this: navigating swarms of police officers, barricades, checkpoints and street closings that…
‘Excellent’ first meeting for Obama, Trump
By JULIE PACE In a cordial beginning the transfer of power, President Barack Obama and President-elect Donald Trump met at the White House Thursday. Obama called the 90-minute meeting “excellent,”…
In last minute twist, FBI clears Clinton on emails
By JULIE PACE, LISA LERER and JILL COLVIN In an extraordinary last-minute twist to a volatile campaign, FBI director James Comey lifted the cloud he had placed over Hillary Clinton,…
26 civilians, 2 US troops dead after Afghan raid on Taliban
By JON GAMBRELL and AMIR SHAH U.S. and Afghan forces came under fire on Thursday while targeting senior Taliban commanders during a joint operation in northern Kunduz province, calling in…
China carfentanil trade thrives as seizures top 400 in US
By ERIKA KINETZ and RAPHAEL SATTER Seizures of the deadly chemical carfentanil have exploded across the United States, with more than 400 cases documented in eight states since July alone,…
More migrants from around the world making way to US border
By ALICIA A. CALDWELL An increasing number of people from far-flung corners of the world quietly have tried to sneak into the United States among the hundreds of thousands of…
If elected, Clinton faces awkward coexistence with Comey
By ERIC TUCKER The relationship between James Comey and Hillary Clinton was never going to be tension-free, not when Comey’s FBI had conducted an election-year criminal investigation into the Democratic…