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By the age of 6, girls already consider boys more likely to show brilliance and more suited to "really, really smart" activities than their own gender, according to a new study.

Donald Trump's young presidency has been marked by palace intrigue, a wave of public squabbles with government agencies, rogue social media accounts and critical news reports press secretary Sean Spicer called "demoralizing" to the White House.

It's no surprise that candidate Donald Trump's disdain for the truth has carried over into his presidency, with its Orwellian embrace of "alternative facts." Nor should we be shocked that his claim that he is "to a large extent, an environmentalist" has been brutally refuted by every action he's taken since he won the election. Rich fossil fuel executives surely felt like they won the lottery last November.

President Donald Trump wants to impose at 20% tax on imports from Mexico to pay for the border wall, according to his White House press secretary.

The Williams sisters were unheard of schoolgirls in the Los Angeles suburb of Compton when their father Richard, a man with no previous experience in tennis coaching, wrote an 85-page plan for his daughters.

Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg is sharply criticizing President Trump on abortion policy.

President Trump's executive order to block federal funds from so-called sanctuary cities may be more easily said than done.

President Donald Trump, angered over a National Park Service retweet comparing his inaugural crowd size to Barack Obama's in 2009, called the acting director of the National Park Service on Saturday to complain, two sources with knowledge of the call told CNN.

First, Gwyneth Paltrow raved about vagina steaming; now her lifestyle website, Goop, wants you to stick a $66 rock up your hoo-ha.

A suspected serial killer, who used various aliases during a cross-country homicide spree, took his darkest secrets to his grave.

An Adel, Iowa, basketball game ended with a buzzer-beater shot that wowed the crowd.

Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto said Wednesday his country "will not pay for any wall," defying the claims US President Donald Trump has made. But he did not cancel his trip planned for the United States next week.

Donald Trump will get his first shot at face-to-face diplomacy on Friday when he welcomes his first foreign visitor to the Oval Office, British Prime Minister Theresa May.

A former sheriff's deputy in Florida has been arrested and accused of sexually assaulting a woman while he was on duty, St. Lucie County Sheriff Ken Mascara said.

America had another year of sluggish growth.

Robin Mead had a brain tumor, but no health insurance. And when doctors discovered it, she was defiant.

Two senior administration officials said Thursday that the Trump administration told four top State Department management officials that their services were no longer needed as part of an effort to "clean house" at Foggy Bottom.

10-year-old Eden Hasson came dangerously close to what is believed to be a shark at Samurai Beach in Port Stephens, Australia.