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Heads up, American women (and the men who love them): House Speaker Paul Ryan said Thursday the GOP is moving forward on its plan to repeal Obamacare, and would also include removing federal funding for Planned Parenthood.

Secretary of State John Kerry said he couldn't predict how Donald Trump's officials would act act once they take office -- and that they might not know either.

Lawmakers and senior US intelligence officials are drawing a line in the sand for President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday, presenting a united front before Congress on their conclusion that Russia is a major threat to the United States and was behind election hacking -- a conclusion Trump has refused to accept.

Republicans are moving at lightning speed to repeal Obamacare.

Conan O'Brien's late night variety show "Conan" is, contrary to reports, remaining nightly instead of going weekly. But it may not stay that way for long.

For the second time in a week, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was questioned in an ongoing corruption investigation, according to Israel's Channel 10.

The nation's top drug officer is visiting China for the first time in more than a decade to discuss banning more of the synthetic drugs being manufactured by chemists there and illegally sold in the United States.

President-elect Donald Trump completed a deposition earlier Thursday over his legal battle against chef José Andrés, Trump transition team spokeswoman Hope Hicks told CNN.

The Pentagon announced Thursday that four inmates were transferred from the Guantanamo Bay prison to Saudi Arabia, dropping the prison's population to 55.

An 8-year-old girl was killed after her home was struck by a falling tree in Otis, Oregon.

No one disputes the horror of a special-needs teen getting beaten as another teen broadcasts the torture on Facebook Live.

Two people were killed in an explosion near a courthouse in Izmir, Turkey. CNN's Hala Gorani and Sara Sidner report.

More than 150 financial institutions hold the debt of President-elect Donald Trump and his businesses, according to an analysis by The Wall Street Journal.

ESPN's NFL coverage is losing one of its most popular talents and one of its biggest voices.

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders brought a giant printout of one of Donald Trump's tweets, in which the President-elect promised not to cut Social Security, to the Senate floor.

The mesentery, the organ that connects the intestine to the abdomen, plays a critical body function, according to new research. CNN's Christiane Amanpour reports.

Some time in May 2014, Paul Overby, an American writer in his 70's, disappeared as he was traveling between Khost in Afghanistan and North Waziristan in Pakistan -- a region rife with the Taliban and terror groups such as al Qaeda.

President-elect Donald Trump picked a fight with the US intelligence community in recent days, elevating the statements of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and Russian President Vladimir Putin over his own nation's top spies.

Facebook has long been reluctant to admit that it has become a news organization -- and not just a news organization, but perhaps the most important one.

Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul is set to meet Thursday morning with members of the conservative House Freedom Caucus in an effort to heighten concerns about deficit spending -- even as doing so could imperil the Republican effort to immediately repeal President Barack Obama's health care law.