FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - A gunman, apparently acting alone, opened fire at random on passengers in a baggage claim area at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International airport Friday, killing five people and injuring eight, before being taken into custody, ...
... □ President-elect Donald J. Trump declared that the hacking of “the Democrat National Committee” had “absolutely no effect on the outcome of the election” after the nation's intelligence chiefs briefed him at Trump Tower.
Tilikum, the orca who killed a trainer at SeaWorld Orlando in 2010, has died, his owners have announced. SeaWorld said it was "deeply saddened" by the killer whale's death, saying Tilikum had suffered serious health issues but did not give a cause of ...
Michelle Obama used her last official White House speech to deliver a passionate pep talk to the nation's young people, especially immigrants, Muslims and others who might feel slighted by the incoming Trump administration.
Russia said Friday it is withdrawing its aircraft carrier and other warships from the waters off Syria, following orders from President Vladimir Putin to scale back his forces as he casts himself as a peacemaker for the Middle Eastern country.
A statue of a girl representing the Korean women forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese military being unveiled during a rally in front of the Japanese Consulate in Busan, South Korea, last week.
Bouake (Ivory Coast) (AFP) - Soldiers seized control of Ivory Coast's second city Bouake on Friday in a protest over pay, firing rocket launchers in the streets and terrifying residents, as the government called for calm.
Freshly dug graves for inmates who died during a prison riot, at the cemetery of Taruma in Manaus, Brazil, on Wednesday. Credit Ueslei Marcelino/Reuters.
(CNN) Four young people accused of torturing a Chicago special-needs teen and broadcasting the incident on Facebook Live were ordered held without bail Friday afternoon.
Donald Trump is now the real, official, actual, no-more-doubt-about-it president-elect of the United States, after Congress certified the results of the electoral college Friday.
ATLANTA (AP) - The Latest on the winter storm moving across the South (all times local):. 3:25 p.m.. Snow-slickened roads in Tennessee are being blamed for hundreds of fender benders and other non-injury accidents around Nashville, some involving ...
Retired Marine Gen. James N. Mattis has resigned from the board of the beleaguered Silicon Valley blood testing company Theranos, according to a person with direct knowledge.
One of the two nuclear reactors at Indian Point in Westchester County will cease operations by April 2020, while the other must be closed down by April 2021.
Neiman Marcus has pulled the plug on its plan to list shares on a stock exchange, a tacit acknowledgement that the struggling luxury retailer would probably only fetch bargain basement prices for its shares.
Apple CEO Tim Cook had a better year in 2015. Photo by James Martin/CNET. Apple failed to meet its annual sales goals in 2016, and CEO Tim Cook paid the price.
When police in Bentonville, Arkansas were faced with an unsolved murder last year, they looked to a nearby Amazon Echo. The owner of the house where the murder occurred, and chief suspect in the case, had purchased Amazon's popular new personal ...
SEOUL— Samsung Electronics Co. delivered a reminder of the company's central role in the global technology supply chain with a strong earnings forecast on Friday.
Former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger shamed Donald Trump on Friday, calling the president-elect out for the petty tweets Trump sent, mocking Schwarzenegger's ratings on his reality show, The New Celebrity Apprentice.
The 60-year-old Star Wars star and her 84-year-old mother, a veteran actress known for movies like Singin' in the Rain, were honored at a joint funeral at the Forest Lawn Memorial Park in the Hollywood Hills Friday morning.
Kim Kardashian West and Kanye West have been plagued with nasty rumors about their marriage over the past three months - and the KUWTK star has made it her mission to show that her family is united through her return to social media.
SEATTLE -- The Mariners landed another option for their pitching rotation Friday, acquiring right-handed pitcher Yovani Gallardo from the Baltimore Orioles for outfielder Seth Smith.
The Associated Press 2016 NFL All-Pro Team is showing off the new wave of pro football stars. Three rookies among 17 first-time selections highlight the team, including Dallas running back Ezekiel Elliott, and Kansas City's Tyreek Hill, who is a ...
Minnesota was projected by most to finish 12th-or-worse in the Big Ten in this season that's been described by some as a make-or-break year for Richard Pitino.
A giant iceberg larger than Rhode Island is set to break off of Antarctica, British scientists announced Friday. If it occurs, it would be one of the biggest icebergs on record.
Elon Musk has ambitious goals for SpaceX in the next couple of years. The company plans to launch its new massive rocket, the Falcon Heavy, as it works toward flying an unmanned spacecraft to Mars next year.
Billions of years ago, an unknown object sent a seriously bright burst of radio waves into space. They traveled across the universe, past galaxies and clouds of gas and who knows what else.
A team of astronomers is making a bold forecast: A binary star found in the summer constellation Cygnus the swan will burst into a red nova sometime in 2022.
(CNN) Cancer remains the second leading cause of death in the United States. Still, there's reason for hope: Overall, the death rate from all cancers fell 25% between its peak in 1991 and 2014, the most recent year for data, according to a report from ...
Most babies should start eating peanut-containing foods well before their first birthday, say guidelines released Thursday that aim to protect high-risk tots and other youngsters from developing the dangerous food allergy.
A Detroit family is demanding answers after their 9-year-old daughter died within hours of having a tonsillectomy— the third most common childhood procedure, with 530,000 operations performed per year.
It's generally been thought that the brain doesn't grow in adulthood - that we start off life with extra brain tissue and it “self-prunes” away within a few years after birth.
