US preident-elect leans into previous administration's personnel and experience amid health, economic crises; progressive wing of party calls for more diversity

US president-elect's nominees include pair of '2nd-generation survivors,' an Iran deal and Gaza ceasefire negotiator, and 2 women trailblazers in diplomacy and national security

Eschewing family members and tributes from his selectees, US president-elect puts emphasis on qualified professionals

Ex-Clinton aide to serve as national security adviser, Linda Thomas-Greenfield named next UN envoy, Avril Haines to become first woman director of National Intelligence

Campaigns, voters acknowledge sense of unknown as party begins choosing who to send for November face-off with Trump; former Secretary of State John Kerry denies considering run

Experts say new US policy less dramatic than it sounds as it simply reinstates Reagan-era ambiguity on settlements' legal status. Others warn it prejudges final status of West Bank

Leah Goldin says 2014 Gaza war won't end until bodies of her son Hadar and fellow soldier Oron Shaul are able to receive proper burials

US president says he sent aircraft carrier group to the Persian Gulf because Iranians 'were threatening,' tells reporters 'we have information that you don't want to know about'

Preferring to stand in Jewish state's corner, White House allows Egypt and UN to fill vacuum as mediators during Gaza conflicts in break from traditional policy