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See pictures of first daughters Malia and Sasha Obama as they grew up before the nation.

US Secret Service Director Joseph Clancy wants to set the record straight about President-elect Donald Trump's private security team and whether it's causing conflict with his agents.

Michael Hayden, a former head of the CIA and National Security Agency, said Saturday that the newly-released intelligence report describing Russia's efforts to undermine the US election was "a brick short of a load."

US intelligence agencies released on Friday an alarming report about a hostile foreign country's efforts to subvert America's system of government, and the incoming president does not seem to understand the danger of the situation.

Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz discusses the Fort Lauderdale airport shooting and the security in baggage claims areas.

Esteban Santiago went to baggage claim Friday afternoon and picked up his one piece of checked luggage. There were no other bags, just a case with a handgun inside.

American malls just got emptier. The Limited, a once-popular women's clothing brand that offers casual attire and workwear, no longer has any storefronts.

"Ain't nobody laughing now."

President-elect Donald Trump is continuing to resist conclusions reached by US intelligence agencies on Russian involvement in the 2016 election, and on Saturday defended his long-held belief that closer ties with Russia would be good for the US.

Now that he's about to assume office, the real costs of the "great, great" wall Donald Trump promised to build during his campaign are beginning to settle in -- and threaten to divide the President-elect and thrifty Republicans on Capitol Hill.

A Taiwanese politician got a very different funeral procession, involving 50 pole dancers on jeeps.

The torture of a special-needs teen that was streamed on Facebook Live has raised new questions about the use of social media platforms to spread videos glorifying abuse and humiliation.

In the first days of 2017, legislators in five states have introduced so-called "bathroom bills" restricting access to public accommodations.

Bloopers from a Minnesota car dealership commercial are taking the Internet by storm.

A deadly car bomb Saturday rocked the center of the rebel-held city of Azaz in northern Syria, near the Turkish border, according to activists.

Divers recovered the cockpit voice recorder, pieces of debris and possible human remains from an airplane that went missing over Lake Erie on Dec. 29, Cleveland city officials said Friday.

A top Russian lawmaker accused the Obama administration Saturday of undermining US democracy, saying Republicans had more trust in Russian President Vladimir Putin than in the Democrats.

A large sheet of ice is set to break away from Antarctica and scientists say it will be one of the largest breaks of its kind recorded.