The US electoral college is expected to certify Donald Trump as president on Monday, despite a last-minute effort to thwart the Republican. The institution's 538 electors will vote at state capitols nationwide.
President-elect Donald Trump has rejected as "ridiculous" a CIA assessment that Russian hackers tried to sway the election in his favour.
Dr Ben Carson will be nominated as the next secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Trump transition team announced Monday.
The bodies of 50 players, coaches and staff from a Brazilian football team tragically wiped out in a plane crash in Colombia arrived home on Saturday for a massive funeral.
Universities and colleges in several US states are considering labelling themselves "sanctuary campuses" amid fears from immigrant students and pressure from activists following the election of Donald Trump.
Dozens of people are feared dead after a fire broke out during a rave at a converted warehouse in Oakland, California.
Colombian authorities say evidence is growing that a plane carrying a Brazilian football team crashed because it ran out of fuel as it tried to land. The plane had no fuel on impact, an official said, corroborating audio of the pilot asking to land because of a fuel shortage and electric failure.
President-elect Donald Trump has announced he is to leave his business empire to focus on the presidency and avoid perceived conflicts of interest.
Donald Trump has said he will "terminate" the deal between the US and Cuba if the Cuban government does not improve the deal on offer.
Seven people have been taken to hospital with injuries after a reported shooting at Ohio State University.
US President-elect Donald Trump has asserted he won the popular vote on 8 November "if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally". The Republican, who won the all-important Electoral College count, offered no evidence to back his claim.
Republican President-elect Donald Trump has described an impending recount of votes in Wisconsin as a "scam".
Cuba's former leader Fidel Castro was a "brutal dictator", US President-elect Donald Trump has said, hours after the 90-year-old's death was announced.
Green Party nominee Jill Stein launched a bid Wednesday to seek a vote recount in three key Rust Belt states as pressure builds among liberals to challenge election results.
People everywhere have been wondering what kind of president Donald Trump will make. Will his shocking statements during the campaign turn out to have been political theater, or a sign of what's to come?
![President Michel Temer receives the coffin of a Chapecoense player who died in the plane crash in Colombia [Paulo Whitaker/Reuters]](/images/2016/DECEMBER/Dec4/brazilplayers.jpg "President Michel Temer receives the coffin of a Chapecoense player who died in the plane crash in Colombia [Paulo Whitaker/Reuters]")
![University of New Mexico students and professors present a proposal to declare the campus a 'sanctuary university' [AP]](/images/2016/DECEMBER/Dec4/usacolleges.jpg "University of New Mexico students and professors present a proposal to declare the campus a 'sanctuary university' [AP]")
