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White House press secretary Sean Spicer on Air Force One said that one of the executive orders President Donald Trump will sign this afternoon will be a follow up on the announcement of the voter fraud probe.

Mary Tyler Moore was a role model in so many ways to a generation that valued treating each other with respect and dealing with each other as humans with both flaws and saving graces rather than as caricatures, writes Doug Wilson.

Washington State reported on Wednesday that there have been 278 confirmed and probable cases of mumps across five counties since October 2016: King, Pierce, Snohomish, Spokane and Yakima. Mumps is a contagious disease caused by a virus spread from person to person through saliva and mucus.

It's time to talk about the wall.

President Donald Trump's chief strategist has escalated the administration's war with the media, labeling it "the opposition party" and suggesting that it "keep its mouth shut."

On Australia Day at the Australian Open, Americans ruled in the women's semifinals.

A Dallas school district is investigating an employee who posted a video of a person shooting a water gun at President Donald Trump's image while yelling "Die!" according to a video posted to social media.

It's been almost a week since her husband took office, and first lady Melania Trump still has not officially announced her own White House team. While she won't be a full-time DC resident until son Barron, 10, completes his school year at a New York City private school, a spokesperson for the first lady this week told CNN that Trump would be "splitting her time between Washington and New York for the next few weeks."

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich told CNN Thursday that his wife, Callista, is being considered by President Donald Trump to be the ambassador to the Holy See.

A series of potent winter storms that lashed Northern, and more recently Southern California, has erased the worst of the long-term drought that plagued the Golden State for three years.

Humanity might well be edging closer to annihilation than ever before.

The chief of US Border Patrol has departed the agency, Customs and Border Protection said in a statement Thursday -- the day after President Donald Trump signed executive orders aimed at beefing up border security.

Mexican products have plenty of red, white and blue in them.

In excavating the medieval site of the St. Mary Magdalen hospital cemetery and chapel in Winchester, England, researchers were looking to genotype a strain of leprosy. They wanted to shed light on the origins and evolution of the epidemic that plagued Europe in the Middle Ages.

This is not a drill.

So much for Trump warning of a "big, fat, ugly" bubble. Now that he's in the White House, the new U.S. president is actively cheering on the stock market to go higher -- much higher.

Before he departed office, President Barack Obama encouraged British Prime Minister Theresa May to form a close relationship with incoming President Donald Trump, according to a British official familiar with their conversations and a former senior administration official.

Greece's Supreme Court ruled Thursday that eight servicemen who fled Turkey after an attempted coup last July will not be extradited -- a decision that brought an immediate protest from Turkey.