Miles Parks

Presidents Trump and Erdogan exchanged warm statements about the future of U.S.-Turkey relations, even after a decision by the U.S. to arm a group in Syria that Turkey considers terrorists.

President Trump has shown warmth toward Turkey's authoritarian leader, but a military decision last week puts the two countries completely at odds.

A year and a half ago, James Comey, then the head of the FBI, said "part of doing our work well is to make sure we don't talk about it."

The president seemed to caution the ex-FBI director against leaks to the press, but Trump's spokesman wouldn't say if recordings exist. Four candidates will be interviewed for Comey's job on Saturday.

The former FBI director also said he will "miss ... the mission deeply," CNN reports. The White House maintains that James Comey was fired because of his handling of the Clinton email investigation.

Turkey views the Kurdish groups in Syria as terrorists, but the Pentagon sees them as the best chance to retake an ISIS stronghold.

"I think I know the gospel pretty well," a White House spokeswoman said after the House passed a health care bill without the official legislative scoring, "and I'd say the CBO is not the gospel."

In an interview that aired Monday, President Trump spoke highly of Andrew Jackson, and wondered why more people don't ask why the Civil War happened, asserting Jackson could have prevented it.

Ros-Lehtinen, the first congressional Republican to publicly support gay marriage and a fierce critic of Cuban politics, will retire after almost three decades in the House of Representatives

Trump had a "very friendly" phone call with Rodrigo Duterte, a leader accused of leading a mass killing of drug addicts in his country who also once called Barack Obama "the son of a whore."

The National Weather Service reported multiple tornadoes Saturday in northeast Texas. Flooding in Arkansas has killed at least three people so far, from storms that continued into Sunday.

Trump cast his election win as a triumph for gun rights at the National Rifle Association convention. He also returned to familiar attacks on Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren and border wall promises.

Political outsider Emmanuel Macron has come in top place in the first round of the election with around 24 percent of the vote. Far-right candidate Marine Le Pen trailed with 22 percent.

Kuki Gallmann, the conservationist and author of the book that became a film starring Kim Basinger, was shot Sunday in Kenya. Tensions continue to boil between land owners and cattle herders there.

The former child star who played Joanie Cunningham on the sitcoms Happy Days and its spinoff, Joanie Loves Chachi, has died, according to authorities in Indiana.

Artist and philosopher Jonathon Keats didn't need to create anything new to show the absurdity of human problem-solving. All he had to do was give human technology to animals.

Conflict and drought have ravaged four countries across North Africa and the Middle East, leaving more than 20 million people in desperate need of food.

For the second time this month, the Turkish president compared a European Union ally's government to that of Nazi Germany.

The bombing, near a revered cemetery on the border of the old city of Damascus, appears to have targeted Shiite visitors from Iraq. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack.

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has asked for more time away from the country to finish medical tests, as officials there continue to insist he's in perfect health