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Traveling: It should be a chance to unwind, but often it just winds you up.

President Obama takes aim at Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, saying he doesn't have "basic knowledge" of the world.

Twenty-one years ago, Ann Moliver Ruben designed a T-shirt with a simple empowering message: "Someday a woman will be PRESIDENT!"

Twenty-one years ago, a Walmart store in Florida pulled shirts from its shelves, saying they were "offensive." The shirts had a simple, empowering message: "Someday a woman will be PRESIDENT!"

Wikileaks released a series of voicemails Wednesday from the Democratic National Committee hack showing donors plying top-level officials for favors, and one donor expressing outrage that Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders had won a say in the drafting of the party's platform.

Danny Cevallos: If the prosecutor had probable cause to prosecute police officers in Baltimore, why did she drop the three remaining cases before trial?

A federal judge on Wednesday granted John Hinckley Jr., the man who shot President Ronald Reagan in 1981, "full-time covalescent leave" from St. Elizabeth's Hospital.

The Secret Service has new code names for GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump and Indiana Gov. Mike Pence: Mogul and Hoosier.

Shortly after being elected last year, Baltimore State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby said prosecutors in her troubled city had the "toughest job in America."

The French government says it will mobilize police and military forces to boost security in the wake of the slaying of a Catholic priest, the latest terror atrocity to roil the country.

With all due respect to Scott Baio, there's little doubt about which 2016 convention will end up as the more entertaining. Over the first two nights in Philadelphia, we've seen performances from celebrity guests like Paul Simon, Demi Lovato and Alicia Keys. We've seen appearances from stars like Elizabeth Banks and Meryl Streep.

Both the Republican and Democratic National Convention showcased drama, but here are the best and worst convention entrances and exits. Jeanne Moos has the good, the bad and the awkward.

President Barack Obama's three Democratic convention speeches have, in succession, launched his national career, thrust him into the Oval Office and secured him a second term. On Wednesday, he'll work during his fourth marquee convention address to ensure those earlier efforts weren't for naught.

Much like its title character, "Jason Bourne" is an efficient automaton of a movie, stripping away any pesky qualifiers -- "Identity," "Supremacy," "Ultimatum" -- and getting down to what the whole exercise is about in the bare-bones title.

A suicide bombing killed 48 people, including women and children, Wednesday in northern Syria, the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

Donald Trump went "beyond the pale" in calling on Russia to hack Hillary Clinton's email on Wednesday, former CIA Director and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta told CNN's Christiane Amanpour in an exclusive interview.

Notoriously private Kristen Stewart is opening up about her love life.

Throwback to 2014, the year of the Ellen DeGeneres Oscar selfie, Pharrell's giant hat, and the Ice Bucket Challenge. These fads "broke the internet" (a phrase also coined in 2014) dominating social media feeds across the globe.

Prosecutors are dropping charges against the remaining Baltimore officers who were facing trial in connection with Freddie Gray's death.

Chinese gadget maker Xiaomi has unveiled its first-ever laptop -- a sleek machine with solid performance specs and an attractive price.