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In this Feb. 1, 2017 file photo, National Security Adviser Michael Flynn speaks during the daily news briefing at the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Mueller: FBI is not to blame for Flynn's false statements

The special counsel's office pushed back Friday at the suggestion that the FBI acted improperly in its interview of former national security adviser Michael Flynn, saying he "chose to make false statements" and did not need a warning that it was against the law to do so.

In this Feb. 9, 2016, file photo, then-Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump gives thumbs up to supporters during a primary night rally in Manchester, N.H. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)

Federal prosecutors are investigating Trump inaugural committee: reports

Federal prosecutors are reportedly investigating the finances of U.S. President Donald Trump's inaugural committee and whether foreigners contributed to its events using straw donors.

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko speaks during a news conference in Minsk, Belarus, Friday, Dec. 14, 2018. (Vasily Fedosenko/Pool Photo via AP)

Belarus' leader slams Russian talk of taking over his nation

The leader of Belarus on Friday accused some politicians in Russia of floating the prospect of incorporating his nation, and vowed that he wouldn't let it happen.

McDonald's iconic golden arches are shown in this file photo. (The Canadian Press Images/Lee Brown)

Woman run over at Florida McDonalds by man who snatched her purse

Florida authorities have jailed a man who they say snatched a handbag from an elderly woman at McDonald's and then ran her over in the parking a lot.

A person walks past the building where the 'Warsaw Ghetto Museum' will be located, in Warsaw, Poland, Friday, Dec. 14, 2018. (AP Photo/Alik Keplicz)

Historian lays out vision for new Holocaust museum in Warsaw

The Warsaw Ghetto Museum should be an ambitious state-of-the art facility --'the major Holocaust museum in Poland' -- when it opens in 2023, its newly appointed chief historian said Friday.

The human heart was transported in a thermally controlled box stored in the plane’s cargo hold.

Plane forced to turn around after donated human heart left behind by mistake

A flight headed to Texas was forced to make a U-turn after a human heart intended for donation was forgotten on the plane. 1

Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May delivers a speech outside 10 Downing Street in London, Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2018. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

May aims to rescue Brexit plan; EU says ball's in U.K.'s court

British Prime Minister Theresa May launched a rescue mission for her ailing Brexit deal Friday, after the European Union rebuffed her request to sweeten the divorce agreement so she can win over hostile lawmakers at home.

This photo released by Kensington Palace on Friday Dec. 14, 2018, shows the photo taken by Matt Porteous of Britain's Prince William and Kate, Duchess of Cambridge with their children Prince George, right, Princess Charlotte, center, and Prince Louis at Anmer Hall in Norfolk, east England, which is to be used as their 2018 Christmas card. (Matt Porteous/Kensington Palace via AP)

Royal couples release contrasting Christmas card images including unseen wedding photo

Meghan Markle and Prince Harry have released an unseen wedding photo for their first Christmas card as husband and wife. 3

Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis arrives to give House members a classified security briefing, with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, not shown, on the murder of Jamal Khashoggi and Saudi Arabia's war in Yemen, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 13, 2018. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Senate rebukes Trump, Saudi Arabia over Khashoggi, Yemen war

In back-to-back votes against Saudi Arabia, the Senate delivered an unusual rebuke of U.S. President Donald Trump's response to the death of journalist Jamal Khashoggi and signalled new skepticism from Capitol Hill toward the longtime Middle East ally.

Michael Cohen, right, President Donald Trump's former lawyer, arrives at federal court for his sentencing for dodging taxes, lying to Congress and violating campaign finance laws in New York on Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2018. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

Ex-Trump lawyer claims Trump knew hush money payments wrong

Shaken and facing a prison term, U.S. President Donald Trump's longtime personal lawyer said Friday that Trump directed him to buy the silence of two women during the 2016 campaign because he was concerned their stories of alleged affairs with him "would affect the election." He says Trump knew the payments were wrong. 8

In this Jan. 4, 2016, file photo, a U.S. Border Patrol agent patrols Sunland Park along the U.S.-Mexico border next to Ciudad Juarez. A 7-year-old girl who had crossed the U.S.-Mexico border with her father, died after being taken into the custody of the U.S. Border Patrol, federal immigration authorities confirmed Thursday, Dec. 13. (AP Photo/Russell Contreras, File)

U.S. says 7-year-old who died in custody had not appeared ill

U.S. immigration officials on Friday defended their actions in the detention of a 7-year-old Guatemalan girl who died two days after she and her father were taken into custody along a remote stretch of the U.S. border. 2

A Spirit Airlines airplane at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., on June 13, 2010. (Lynne Sladky / AP)

Indian man gets 9 years in prison for sex assault on flight

An Indian man living in the U.S. on a work visa was sentenced to nine years in prison Thursday for sexually assaulting a sleeping woman during an overnight flight to Detroit.

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