BARACK OBAMA

Raymond Kelly maintained that the surveillance of Muslim communities was simply "misunderstood" and similar "pro-active policing" would be needed to prevent attacks such as the one targeting a Berlin Christmas market last week.

A UN Security Council resolution passed Friday said Israel's settlements have "no legal validity" and urged all states to distinguish between Israel and "the territories occupied since 1967."

Israel slammed Friday's U.N. resolution to "cease all settlement activities in the occupied Palestinian territory, including East Jerusalem."

An upstate New York businessman made shocking statements after being asked by a local newspaper what he'd like to see happen in 2017.

"I would prefer Islam not to be mentioned in vain alongside terrorism," the Russian president said at his annual year-end press conference Friday.

"Let it be an arms race. We will outmatch them at every pass and outlast them all," the president-elect said.

On Thursday, the president-elect alarmed nonproliferation experts when he called for the U.S. to "greatly strengthen and expand its nuclear capability."

Former Sen. Joseph Lieberman says he thinks Arabs and Israelis are closer to peace than ever, but nothing will happen until the Palestinian issue is resolved.

Both investors and environmental activists fear the new administration will quash an SEC rule that pushes companies to address the impact of climate change.

The president-elect may find it hard to overturn Obama's decision to earmark parts of the Arctic and Atlantic Oceans as “indefinitely” off-limits to offshore oil and gas drilling.

Social media users demanded answers as to why Tumblr would not load, leading some to speculate whether enemy action was involved.

Despite Donald Trump's choice for secretary of state, Moscow sees the incoming administration as a source of greater NATO-Russia conflict, a Kremlin spokesman said.

A leaked Department of Defense memo reportedly shows President-elect Donald Trump's biggest security concerns, and Russia isn't one of them.

Sen. Leila de Lima is one of the few domestic critics of President Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs campaign, which has killed nearly 6,000 people.

The president-elect says he plans to end Barack Obama’s executive order, which provides temporary protection for undocumented immigrants who entered the U.S. as children.

The action comes after a considerable push made by environmental groups and 14 Democratic senators.

The campaign allows people to download a personal message from NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden in place of the “ordinary voice message” used for out-of-office replies.

Riyadh has consistently denied any ties to the plotters of the 9/11 attacks, 15 of whom were Saudi nationals.

Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, in an interview Monday evening, vowed to get to the bottom of the issue but said a new Senate committee to look into cybersecurity was unnecessary.

The interview, titled "First Lady Michelle Obama Says Farewell to the White House: An Oprah Winfrey Special," aired Monday on CBS.

The president hopes to help build up future leaders of the party once he leaves office.