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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.

Sears is shutting down 150 more stores, yet another sign of how tough it is for former kings of the retail industry to compete in a world now dominated by Amazon.

Staffs for the incoming and outgoing administrations are forging what both sides describe as effective, even sometimes warm, working relationships in the weeks before Inauguration Day, even as their visions for the country remain deeply at odds.

Reports of mass sex assaults against women on New Year's Eve in Bangalore, India, have sparked calls for action. CNN's Ravi Agrawal reports.

Jesse Watters, the troublemaking Bill O'Reilly sidekick best-known for his ambush interviews, is getting his own show on Fox News.

Senate Democrats are calling on the House Office of Congressional Ethics to launch an investigation into Rep. Tom Price, President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for Health and Human Services secretary, to probe the congressman's financial investments and stock holdings.

Tucker Carlson will take over for Megyn Kelly on Fox News next week, the network announced Thursday.

Researchers have tracked a mysterious radio signal to a tiny galaxy 3 billion light-years from Earth.