MEXICO CITY - Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto on Thursday canceled a planned visit to the White House amid outrage in Mexico about President Trump's efforts to start building a border wall, in what appeared to be one of the most serious rifts in ...
Washington (CNN) In a closed-door meeting Wednesday, House and Senate Republican leaders stressed the importance of party unity and to avoid intraparty fights that could threaten the GOP hold of Washington.
That's the somber conclusion of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, a group of scientists who maintain the “Doomsday Clock,” a symbolic representation of humanity's proximity to apocalyptic destruction.
(CNN) President Donald Trump could sign an executive order or presidential memorandum initiating an investigation into voter fraud as early as Thursday, a senior administration official tells CNN.
Chelsea Manning, the former Army intelligence analyst who was convicted of leaking classified documents to Wikileaks, critiqued the legacy of President Barack Obama just over a week after the former commander-in-chief made the controversial decision to ...
LONDON - Since Donald Trump was elected president, perhaps no U.S. ally has gone to greater lengths to make friends than British Prime Minister Theresa May.
Passengers at the Beijing West Railway Station. Hundreds of millions of Chinese are traveling to their hometowns for the Lunar New Year, the country's most important holiday.
Banjul (Gambia) (AFP) - Jubilant Gambians on Thursday welcomed home their new President Adama Barrow, who was elected almost two months ago but forced to flee to Senegal when his predecessor refused to step aside.
Transparency International has released its latest rankings of corruption around the world and, as ever, there is little to cheer about in the Middle East, with five of the world's ten most corrupt countries coming from the region.
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson's job running the State Department just got considerably more difficult. The entire senior level of management officials resigned Wednesday, part of an ongoing mass exodus of senior foreign service officers who don't ...
A Florida man accused of killing his pregnant ex-wife, and then fatally shooting a police officer during a manhunt that left another cop dead, is competent enough to waive his right to a lawyer, a judge ruled on Thursday.
PHILADELPHIA - Congress will pass legislation to remake health care, reform the federal tax system and secure the U.S. border with Mexico by year's end, House Speaker Paul D. Ryan said Thursday, confirming that lawmakers intend to aggressively push ...
Mike Pompeo, President Trump's C.I.A. director, after he was sworn in on Monday. He said in a confirmation hearing that he would not agree to reinstate torture.
U.S. stock indexes were mostly flat in morning trading Thursday, the day after the Dow Jones industrial average closed above 20,000 for the first time.
(CNN) Before he departed office, President Barack Obama encouraged British Prime Minister Theresa May to form a close relationship with incoming President Donald Trump, according to a British official familiar with their conversations and a former ...
After pocketing $1.5 billion from selling Actelion Ltd., co-founder and Chief Executive Officer Jean-Paul Clozel gets to return to his roots with a shot at another payday.
Facebook's VR team just got a new boss, and it's former Xiaomi exec Hugo Barra. Barra, who had been serving as global lead of the Chinese smartphone manufacturer, announced his departure earlier this week to return to Silicon Valley.
Ever since Windows 8, Microsoft's control panel and software settings have been split between the old Windows 7 Control Panel-style interface and the newer Settings pages that debuted in Windows 8 and Windows 10.
President Trump is still tweeting from his old Android phone in the White House, even after being given a new, secure device just before his inauguration, according to a report in The New York Times.
Mary Tyler Moore battled hardships from brain tumors to diabetes throughout her marriage to Dr. Robert Levine, and he stood by her side through it all.
Take an Internet-beloved celebrity who courts controversy, add a Trump element and a live camera, and trouble is bound to follow. Shia LaBeouf's protest art project He Will Not Divide Us, a four-year-long installation, got the actor arrested after just ...
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) CoCo Vandeweghe set two goals for herself at the start of the season: to make the quarterfinals of the Australian Open and then, at some point in the year, go one step further and reach her first Grand Slam semifinal.
This was the rare case when a benching turned into a benefit. That had guard Dion Waiters praising coach Erik Spoelstra in the wake of Wednesday night's victory over the Brooklyn Nets that extended the Miami Heat's winning streak to five.
The NASA astronauts who fly aboard Boeing's new spaceship will wear sleek, blue suits that are lighter, simpler and more comfortable than the bulky orange gear of the space shuttle era, company representatives said.
Embryos that are less than 0.001% human - and the rest pig - have been made and analysed by scientists. It is the first proof chimeras - named after the mythical lion-goat-serpent monster - can be made by combining material from humans and animals.
One of the stories that generated a fair bit of coverage today was the rise of “rogue” Twitter accounts popping up for agencies like the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), National Park Service (NPS) and National Aeronautics and Space ...
Soda habits among kids and adults in the U.S. are still going strong: About two-thirds of children and half of adults report drinking at one least one sugar-sweetened beverage a day, two new reports find.
(CNN) The Finnish government has set an ambitious goal for residents in a bid to benefit their health -- and their bank balances. Officials plan to make the country tobacco-free by 2040, meaning they want less than 2% of their adults to consume tobacco ...
(CNN) Washington state reported Wednesday that there have been 278 confirmed and probable cases of mumps across five counties since October: King, Pierce, Snohomish, Spokane and Yakima.
A chimera, left, created with a Wistar rat, middle, and a mouse, right. The rat-mouse chimera was generated by injecting mouse iPS cells into a rat embryo.
