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The "angry black woman" label that Michelle Obama has been tagged with by some is a caricature rooted in other people's fears, the first lady said in an interview airing Monday.

President-elect Donald Trump continues to question whether Russia was behind the hacks during the 2016 presidential campaign. Just two years ago, however, Trump said he was very aware of Russia's hacking, calling it out -- along with China -- as a "big problem."

The nation's largest retailer announced it will close at 6 p.m. this Saturday. In recent years it has closed at 8 p.m. on Christmas Eve.

President Barack Obama faulted his party's campaign strategy in an interview airing Monday, arguing Democrats suffered stinging electoral losses in last month's vote because they failed to campaign in hard-hit rural areas.

ISIS claimed responsibility Tuesday for an attack on a popular tourist attraction in Jordan over the weekend that killed 10 people.

Top Republicans and Democrats are quietly maneuvering to force a vote on the Senate floor establishing a new committee to investigate the Russian cyberattacks on the US political system, a move that could put GOP leaders who oppose the idea in an awkward spot just as Donald Trump comes into power.

While Michelle Obama was a harsh critic of Donald Trump on the campaign trail, the first lady says in an interview that she is supportive of the country's incoming new leader.

Donald Trump might have been a conservative hiding in plain sight this whole time.

A truck rammed into a crowded Christmas market in Berlin, killing at least 12 and injuring at least 48.

General Motors is cutting almost half the jobs at its only plant inside Detroit city limits.

Amid all of his relationship drama, Rob Kardashian says he wants to do better.

Witnesses describe the chaos as a truck barreled through a Berlin Christmas market.

Contrary to the gravity-defying action of the past six weeks, the stock market can't go up in a straight line forever.

Peter Bergen: Terrorists have turned to a frightening weapon that often is within easy reach and is particularly hard to guard against: Using cars and trucks as killing machines

The Chinese government has returned the US unmanned underwater drone it seized last week in the South China Sea, according to Chinese and US officials.

2016 will be remembered as the year that Donald Trump, a reality TV star and real estate mogul with zero political experience, was elected president. But it will also be remembered as a year of heightened, vicious online harassment.

British tourist Emma Rushton was sitting with friends, soaking up a quintessential German Christmas market scene.

In 2014, the North Carolina General Assembly passed a series of laws to create a series of new state agencies. Republican Gov. Pat McCrory deemed the move to be a power grab launched by his own party. So he did the only thing he could think of to protect his office: Sue the legislature.

A man suspected of injuring three people in a shooting at an Islamic center in the Swiss city of Zurich was found dead near the site of the attack, police said Tuesday.

The apparent violent truck assault on Berlin's crowded Breitscheidplatz Christmas market had all the hallmarks of Islamic State terrorism -- the same type of semitruck, the same high speed of 40 miles an hour, the same mass of holiday revelers -- as the horrific attack on the Promenade des Anglais in Nice last summer. In both cases, there were multiple deaths and scores of maimed and injured left in their wake.