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An elementary school lunch lady is 100 pounds lighter after she ate her own cafeteria food every day for a year.

When Donald Trump takes the stage on Monday night's prime-time presidential debate, one of the few faces he will see will be that of a fellow billionaire that has tried to savage him in public.

The Clintons are building a compound in Chappaqua, New York.

A congressman who represents North Carolina apologized Thursday for saying there are riots in Charlotte because the protesters "hate white people."

Take a look at 40 photos of the week from September 16 through September 22.

A series of high-profile breaches and warnings from national intelligence leaders has elections directors in critical battleground states seeking federal help against possible cyberattacks.

The video above is hard to watch. If you'd prefer not to, here's what it shows: A woman who has collapsed in the middle of a dollar store, and her toddler daughter, screaming and crying and clutching her mother's listless body.

South Korea has elite troops on standby ready to assassinate Kim Jong Un if the country feels threatened by North Korean nuclear weapons, the country's defense minister revealed this week.

He probably won't vote for her, but Hillary Clinton did get an endorsement of sorts from Kid Rock.

Hopes by Donald Trump's campaign that it can mobilize enough white voters to win in November is a case of self-delusion, according to GOP pollster Whit Ayres.

Social Security is running out of money. America gives too much aid to other countries. Nothing is made in the U.S.A. anymore. Those are some of the reasons why working class whites feel the economy is headed in the wrong direction.

Before he made it to his 40th birthday, serial fraudster Glen Burke had become the target of eight different government agencies, racked up six figure penalties and even earned a lifetime ban from telemarketing

Yahoo said data "associated with at least 500 million user accounts" have been stolen in what may be one of the largest cybersecurity breaches ever.

This weekend, the world's most famous family hits Canada for a quick-fire round of 30 engagements across British Columbia and Yukon. Dozens of national and international reporters and photographers will try to keep up as the Cambridges embark on what's set to be a landmark week-long royal tour.

Two people at a parts manufacturing plant in eastern Tennessee were shot and killed Thursday by a co-worker, Athens police Chief Charles Ziegler said

In New York, smartly-dressed world leaders launch a war of words over a short-lived ceasefire in Syria.

I WAS COVERING the 2016 presidential election at CNN for more than a year when I made a confession to my husband: I felt a pang of sadness whenever I heard the national anthem at a Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton rally.

The real lesson of the Yahoo hack, in which 500 million user account details were stolen in 2014, is this: any account details you enter into an online storage system will probably get hacked at some point. It might just be your email and (encrypted) password, or it might - as with Yahoo - be more details such as name, address, phone number, birthday and even answers to security questions you use to verify who you are.

Being approached by a US Coast Guard boat when you're on the water is normally not a good thing. But when you're with the crew of the M/V OCEARCH shark research vessel, it feels as if anything can happen.