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Twenty-six North Koreans are in Japanese custody after being pulled from a sinking cargo ship off the coast of Japan late Wednesday.

The "Hamilton" cast performs "One Last Time" to bid farewell to President Obama at the White House.

President-elect Trump's curious decision to take on the US intelligence community -- a community that will soon report to him -- over its assessment of Russian hacking and disinformation during the 2016 campaign has needlessly muddied the waters about a matter of national and international significance. "[T]here was absolutely no effect," said Trump after receiving a special highly-classified briefing, "on the outcome of the election including the fact that there was no tampering whatsoever with voting machines." But here's the problem: the intelligence community never publicly accused the Russians of tampering with voting machines or that the effort had decided the election. In any case, whether the hacking had any effect on a US domestic election is something that the intelligence community is not in the business of measuring.

Fox News host Shephard Smith defended CNN's Jim Acosta and CNN's reporting after President-elect Donald Trump called CNN "terrible" at his first press conference as President-elect.

The latest round in the epic health care reform battle has begun.

If you were suddenly hit with a $500 unexpected bill, would you be able to cover it?

President-elect Donald Trump's Cabinet nominees have been facing Senate scrutiny for two days now. Congress has more hearings scheduled for Thursday.

A large white SUV pulls up outside a hospital. An anxious-looking man lifts the patient from her seat and carries her into reception where she waits patiently to be seen by medics.

Though not a first-time mom, LaQueena Grover's fourth child shocked her and her husband.

It's not a law that you have to post a selfie before, during, and after every activity. But for kids, it's pretty much mandatory.

Rep. Mike Pompeo, Donald Trump's pick for CIA director, heads into his Senate confirmation hearing Thursday, taking questions at a time when the President-elect has expressed skepticism of the intelligence community and Russia's meddling in last year's election.

During Michelle Obama's final appearance as first lady on "The Tonight Show," she wrote funny thank you notes with Jimmy Fallon.

Kenya has long been known for the wildlife that gathers around its water holes.

"The Kremlin does not have 'kompromat' on Trump."

Rex Tillerson, the retired ExxonMobil CEO who President-elect Donald Trump nominated to be secretary of state, was something of an unknown before his Senate confirmation hearing Wednesday.

A seven-year-old Syrian girl, who has captured international attention tweeting about daily life in rebel-held eastern Aleppo, shared a message late Sunday night that her house had been bombed.

Two suspects have been charged in connection with the November 2015 Paris attacks, Belgium's Federal Prosecutor said Thursday.

The deed to the home where Ivanka Trump and husband, Jared Kushner, are reportedly moving publicly posted on Wednesday.

Alabama Rep. Mo Brooks said in a radio interview on Tuesday that criticism of Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions, who is Donald Trump's pick to be attorney general, is part of an ongoing "war on whites" by Democrats.

Donald Trump's Cabinet picks are dropping some of his signature policy positions under the scrutiny of Senate confirmation hearings.