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A recount of Election Day results that fully legalized pot use in the state has begun.

Mayor Bill de Blasio will ask for $35 million from the federal government to increase security at Trump Tower, which houses the president-elect's transition team and his family.

Originally, the site of one of the worst mass shootings in the country's history was to be sold for $2.25 million to the city of Orlando, which planned to turn the club into a permanent memorial.

The businesswoman has taken public stances on several policy issues, from child care to maternity leave.

Separate overdoses within a few blocks of each other left six people dead Sunday night, and police blame a "bad batch" of the drug.

The president-elect is a firm Second Amendment supporter and has called for a national open carry law.

The country's health minister said he would not block the new bill from moving forward.

NASA wants to restore the old mission control room used for the Apollo missions.

The Green Party nominee is seeking recounts in Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania — three states where Donald Trump trailed in the polls but won on Election Day.

The likely next attorney general could reverse most U.S. efforts to legalize pot.

The Golden State is readying two bills that would effectively make President-elect Donald Trump's campaign promises to deport millions of undocumented immigrants much more difficult.

Seventeen car crashes were reported Sunday because of the accumulating snow.

The president-elect added the CEO of a Fortune 500 company and a former NATO commander to his growing list of secretary of state choices.

While Massachusetts emerged on top of the list with the country’s wealthiest and most highly educated populations, Mississippi — also the poorest state in the country — was ranked the lowest.

The gunman told police he came to the restaurant to “self-investigate” a false election-related conspiracy theory involving Hillary Clinton.

Police officers in Prescott apprehended Ebonice Johnson, a store employee who had a .22-caliber rifle which she said she planned to use.

The ruling comes after the Green Party’s presidential candidate Jill Stein filed a lawsuit against Michigan’s election officials to speed up the recount bid.

David Petraeus, shortlisted by President-elect Donald Trump for secretary of state, had pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge in 2015 for leaking classified information to his biographer.

An investigation into the California mother's mysterious disappearance continues days after she was found "heavily battered."

After months of protests in North Dakota, a final decision has been handed down regarding the completion of the controversial pipeline.

Sen. Dick Durbin says he hopes the bipartisan legislation will be ready before the inauguration.

As his spokespeople sought to downplay the importance of the president-elect's phone call with Taiwan's leader, Trump tweeted more criticism of China.

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"We are calling on 'Conscientious Electors' to protect the Constitution from Donald Trump, and to support the national popular vote winner," the Change.org petition reads.

Jill Stein's vote recount campaign will move the case to a federal court as it was dropped at the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania following the demand of a $1 million bond.

About a fifth of the Ghost Ship Warehouse has been searched in the wake of the blaze that erupted during a dance party.

While Americans celebrate the unemployment rate's nine-year low, the labor force participation rate continues to lag.

With the late Justice Antonin Scalia's Supreme Court seat still vacant, and three other justices far above retirement age, President-elect Donald Trump could soon reshape the country's highest court.

The 86-year-old, who was the second man to walk on the moon, was visiting Antarctica when he fell ill and was immediately flown to a hospital in Christchurch, New Zealand.