The official, who works at the US Consulate in Guadalajara, Mexico, is in stable condition, the Mexican Attorney General's Office said. Authorities haven't released the identities of the official or the suspect. And investigators haven't revealed a motive behind the shooting.

This would be the first time in Senate history that a sitting senator will testify against another sitting senator for a Cabinet post during a confirmation. "I do not take lightly the decision to testify against a Senate colleague," Booker said.

Trapped behind a barbed wire fence, the white-haired, elderly farmer hacks at the bare branches of his fruit trees, scavenging much needed fuel to ward off the biting cold of the Georgian winter. "They don't let me go," he says, plaintively. "I'm stuck here. Where should I go?

Attorney general nominee Jeff Sessions faces his first Senate confirmation hearing ahead of President Obama's farewell speech on January 10, 2017.

The Reina nightclub can be accessed two ways, by land or by sea. Its beautiful large wooden terrace sits on the water and opens up to a stunning view of the Bosporus. Towering above the club is the bridge that links two continents, Asia and Europe.

A serious peanut allergy can lead to anaphylaxis and, rarely, even death, which means some parents avoided introducing peanuts to their children. But on Thursday, an expert panel published new guidelines about when to introduce some infants to peanut-containing foods as a way to prevent food allergies, a technique validated by the Learning Early About Peanut allergy, or LEAP, study.

Democrats are maneuvering to claim the interests of the American people on their side, with a rallying cry of transparency. They're decrying a combination of quick hearings -- several key nominees will testify next week -- with what they say is a slow pace of nominees returning standard paperwork for vetting.

One official told CNN the administration has traced the hack to the specific keyboards -- which featured Cyrillic characters -- that were used to construct the malware code, adding that the equipment leaves "digital fingerprints" and, in the case of the recent hacks, those prints point to the Russian government.

In the wake of her second straight lopsided defeat, Ronda Rousey left the Octagon to an uncertain fighting future. Hollywood is waiting for her, and Madison Avenue beckons, and with those options, the prospect of suffering the bumps, bruises and blows of mixed martial arts must seem less appealing by the day.

At least five other people were hospitalized in Monday's incident. Fire Capt. Larry Davis said a family member used water to try to wash off the aluminum phosphide, which had been administered before by someone beneath the residence. The incident preliminarily has been ruled an accidental poisoning.

On a warm summer night in July, artist Tanya Lucia Bernard stood in the middle of the cavernous galleries at the Museum of Contemporary Art's Geffen Contemporary and softly sang a refrain from a civil rights anthem: "We who believe in freedom cannot rest until it comes."

No matter how divided our politics and our times, Americans can agree that our status as a strong, democratic nation rests on the bedrock of free and fair elections. That confidence is what was targeted when Russia, one of our oldest, most determined foreign adversaries, invaded American computer networks and released thousands of pages of documents to undermine the legitimacy of the 2016 election.

Though Brown voted for Hillary Clinton in November, he told CNN's Brooke Baldwin later Tuesday he came away from the meeting with a heart-warming sense of positivity. "I fell in love with him because he really talks about helping African-American, black people and that's why I'm here," said Brown, a man many consider to be one of the NFL's greatest running backs.

Police responded early Monday to a report of a man with a revolver acting strangely, said Bakersfield Assistant Police Chief Lyle Martin. Francisco Serna was shot after police said he failed to respond to orders to stop approaching and remove his hands from his jacket.

The man accused of murdering nine people in a church basement in Charleston, S.C., last year told investigators he is guilty, according to a confession video played in court on Friday. The jury in the trial of Dylan Roof, 22, watched an excerpt of a nearly two-hour conversation between Roof and investigators from the FBI, recorded shortly after he was taken into custody.

JAKARTA, Indonesia - At least 45,000 people have been displaced by the powerful earthquake that hit Indonesia's Aceh province, authorities said Saturday, as the government and aid agencies pooled efforts to meet the basic survival needs of shaken communities.

"The first thing we have to do is pry the enormous weight of Obamacare off the national economy," Vice President-elect Mike Pence said on ABC News on Sunday. "It's all going to begin right out of the gate by repealing this disastrous policy that's been killing jobs."

The tech giant is investing in the Chinese wind power industry, turning to the world's most populous country to help it achieve its goal of getting 100% of its energy from renewable sources. The iPhone maker struck a deal this week to buy a 30% stake in three subsidiaries of Goldwind, China's biggest wind-turbine manufacturer.