The official called that figure a conservative estimate. ISIS recruitment also has fallen off. It recruited only several hundred foreign fighters this year, compared with a couple thousand a month last year, CNN has learned.

In the 1990s, long before Stephen K. Bannon became the chairman of Breitbart News and one of Donald Trump 's top advisors, he was just another guy in Beverly Hills who liked Shakespeare and wanted to make movies.

WASHINGTON - President-elect Donald J. Trump has settled on Gen. John F. Kelly, a retired four-star Marine general whose son was killed in combat in Afghanistan, as his choice for secretary of homeland security, placing defense of American territory from terrorism in the hands of a seasoned commander with personal exposure to the costs of war.

You hear a murder scene before you see it: The desperate cries of a new widow. The piercing sirens of approaching police cars. The thud, thud, thud of the rain drumming on the pavement of a Manila alleyway - and on the back of Romeo Torres Fontanilla.

WASHINGTON - The shape of President-elect Donald J. Trump 's domestic agenda is likely to become clearer this week as he continues filling top cabinet posts, focusing his vetting on conservatives with long records of opposing President Obama's approach to social programs, wages, public lands, veterans and the environment.

"There will be a tax on our soon to be strong border of 35 percent for these companies wanting to sell their product, cars, A.C. units etc., back across the border," Mr. Trump said in a series of Twitter messages over the weekend.

Dwight Eisenhower surrounded himself in the White House with such wealthy individuals that his Cabinet was mockingly referred to as "nine millionaires and a plumber." President-elect Donald Trump is about to do him one better. Trump won the election by appealing to America's disaffected working class, promising to drain the Washington swamp of insiders, and railing against segments of the financial elite.

The death toll from the fire that raced through an Oakland warehouse during a music concert rose to 24 as searchers continued sift through the ruin of one of the deadliest fires in modern California history. It could take another two days for the search for victims to end, frustrating frantic family and friends awaiting word about the fate of their loved ones.

Buzz Aldrin, the second man on the Moon, has been evacuated from the South Pole after falling ill. The former 86-year-old astronaut was visiting Antarctica in a tourist group and was evacuated to the US Antarctic Program's research centre. The White Desert tour company said Mr Aldrin was stable under the care of a doctor.

From the section Latin America & Caribbean 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. Civil aviation chief Alfredo Bocanegra said an initial inspection at the site indicated the plane "did not have fuel at the moment of impact".

A version of Shamoon, an aggressive computer virus that targeted the Saudi energy sector four years ago, has been used in a new wave of attacks in Saudi Arabia, according to security experts. The attacks, which Saudi Arabia confirmed, appeared to be the latest use of malware to disrupt high-profile targets.

But Mr. Ji's livelihood is now under threat. Some government officials say Mr. Ji and the unknown number of others like him abuse a law that was meant merely to empower consumers to report fakes. If proposed new government rules get accepted, people like Mr. Ji will no longer be able to go pro.

RALEIGH, N.C. - A Charlotte, N.C., police officer will not face charges in the fatal shooting in September of a black resident, Keith Lamont Scott, a prosecutor said Wednesday. The Sept.

There had been speculation that the ruling African National Congress (ANC) party would hold a vote of confidence on Zuma, nicknamed the "Teflon President" for his ability to survive scandals, at its National Executive Committee meeting over the weekend.

The crash killed at least 71 people during a charter flight to Medellin, including members of the Brazilian Chapecoense soccer squad on its way to the Copa Sudamericana finals. At least three players, two crew members and one journalist survived, Colombian authorities said.

Trump's decision to tap Seema Verma -- Pence's own Medicaid policy consultant in the Indiana governor's office -- to head the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services provided the clearest evidence yet of the prominence Pence and his conservative allies will have in Trump's Washington.