Rep. Tom Price (R-Ga.), President-elect Donald Trump's choice to head the Department of Health and Human Services and one of Congress's most vehement critics of the Affordable Care Act, told senators on Wednesday that “it is absolutely imperative” for ...
President Barack Obama frequently used his trips abroad to highlight the importance of a free press, making leaders from more repressive regimes - from China and Ethiopia to Cuba and Vietnam - stand at his side and answer questions from the media.
Scott Pruitt, Donald Trump's choice to head the Environmental Protection Agency, questioned the human impact on climate change and called his personal opinion on the issue "immaterial" during his confirmation hearing Wednesday.
This story has been updated. In a powerful testament to the warming of the planet, two leading U.S. science agencies Wednesday jointly declared 2016 the hottest year on record, surpassing the previous record set just last year - which, itself, had ...
Former president George H.W. Bush was under observation at an intensive care unit in Houston on Wednesday after being treated for an “acute respiratory problem stemming from pneumonia,” according to a statement from his office.
For most of the past seven years, Chelsea Manning has been a tailor-made villain for the conservative media. Her disclosure of secret diplomatic and military documents to WikiLeaks allowed folks such as Sean Hannity to do two of their favorite things ...
An image released by Doctors Without Borders shows people walking at the site of an accidental military airstrike at an internally displaced persons camp in Rann, Nigeria, Jan. 17, 2017.
South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley departed sharply from President-elect Donald Trump on a range of foreign policy issues Wednesday, creating some awkwardness as she fielded questions from senators on Capitol Hill.
Donald Trump sat down with Fox News Channel anchor Ainsley Eardhardt on Wednesday. He talked about his rapidly-approaching inauguration as well as his Twitter habits.
THE BIG IDEA: No senator has done more to shield a Donald Trump cabinet pick from scrutiny and tough questions than Lamar Alexander has for Betsy DeVos.
Missouri police are hunting for a college student who went missing early Sunday morning after she texted her boyfriend that she had been pulled over for a routine traffic stop.
Billionaire investor Wilbur Ross singled out changes to the nation's free trade agreement with Mexico and Canada on Wednesday as “the first thing” he would address if confirmed to lead the Commerce Department in President-elect Donald Trump's ...
DAVOS, Switzerland—Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said Wednesday he hopes to meet U.S. President-elect Donald Trump in Washington next month and that he believes the incoming administration will continue to support Ukraine.
New York (AFP) - Goldman Sachs and Citigroup closed earnings season on a good note Wednesday, as major US banks saw profits boosted by the election victory of Donald Trump, who promised to dismantle financial regulations.
Google is taking over Twitter's mobile app developer platform Fabric, as well as its Crashlytics crash reporting system, Answers mobile app analytics, Digits SMS login system, and FastLane development automation system.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified in a Dallas court yesterday as part of a lawsuit claiming that Oculus VR, the startup Facebook acquired for roughly $2 billion, was based on stolen technology.
Slack today is rolling out message threads inside its familiar chat window, allowing teams to have more focused conversations inside a new "flex pane" that appears next to the main chat.
Valve founder Gabe Newell took to Reddit yesterday for another hour-long AMA/Ask Me Anything session. Among the topics broached: Is Valve still working on singleplayer games?
The 10-episode comedy will bring the original stars and creators back to the network during the 2017-18 broadcast season. It's official: Will & Grace is returning to NBC.
Chrisley Knows Best star Savannah Chrisley is recovering after a serious car accident on Monday left her with broken vertebrae and pain throughout her body.
Lady Gaga has reportedly been told by the NFL she can't talk about Donald Trump or the election during her Super Bowl performance, according to Entertainment Tonight.
Giants safety Landon Collins looks back on his teammates' trip to Miami and believes it didn't affect the team's focus leading up to their game against Green Bay.
Atlanta Falcons owner Arthur Blank addressed the possibility of the team losing offensive coordinator Kyle Shanahan, who is expected to be offered the San Francisco 49ers' head-coaching position once NFL rules allow.
Ice in the Arctic Ocean's Chukchi Sea region. “What's going on in the Arctic is really very impressive; this year was ridiculously off the chart,” said Gavin A. Schmidt, head of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies.
No one is certain what causes the enigmatic “fairy circles” of the Namib Desert. The rings of burnt orange dirt, each impeccably round and enclosed in a fringe of tall, tufted grass, emerge suddenly from the spare landscape.
"People keep asking me, how close are we to going off the cliff," says Dr. James Johnson, professor of infectious diseases medicine at the University of Minnesota.
Flu cases are rising across the state, with particularly high levels of hospitalization in the east central counties, according to the Ohio Department of Health.
