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Their East Room parties have been known to stretch into the wee hours of the morning, and on Friday, the Obamas plan to wrap up their term in similar fashion, hosting celebrities and friends for a final blowout.

Tilikum, the killer whale involved in the deaths of three people, including SeaWorld trainer Dawn Brancheau in 2010, has died, SeaWorld reported Friday.

President-elect Donald Trump met with the top editors at Vanity Fair, The New Yorker and other Condé Nast magazines on Friday for a wide-ranging discussion on policy matters.

A teacher in Wyoming promised his eighth-grade class a trip to Disneyland under one condition: earn a college degree. After 18 years, one of his students cashed in on the promise.

Former CIA Director James Woolsey downplayed his role Thursday in President-elect Donald Trump's transition, days after he publicly disputed the President-elect's views on Russia's role in the 2016 election.

These aren't your grandfather's pall bearers.

Republican Rep. Duncan Hunter took matters into his own hands this week and personally removed a painting depicting police officers as pigs hanging on Capitol Hill.

The world is finally hearing from Kim Kardashian West about what she went through when she was robbed in Paris.

Russia has started to cut back its forces in Syria, beginning with an aircraft carrier group, Russian state news agency TASS reported Friday.

President-elect Donald Trump's transition team has signaled to congressional Republican leaders that the President-elect's preference is to fund the border wall through the appropriations process as soon as April, according to House Republican officials.

Michele Obama, who made her mark in her eight years as first lady by tackling childhood obesity and veteran employment, is set to deliver her final set of White House remarks Friday.

Multiple people were killed in a shooting Friday at the Fort Lauderdale airport, the Broward County Sheriff's Office said on Twitter.

Critically acclaimed Indian actor Om Puri has died at the age of 66.

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 the American Cancer Society published online Thursday in CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians.

Vice President Joe Biden has a message for the next President: "Grow up, Donald."

Donald Trump said the focus on Russia involvement in the 2016 election is "a political witch hunt."

"I am so sorry," says an emotional Memet Kocarslan, the owner of the Istanbul nightclub where a gunman massacred 39 people in the first minutes of 2017.

At least 33 inmates are dead following a prison riot in northern Brazil on Friday, according to state-run news agency Agencia Brasil. The riot took place at the Agricultural Penitentiary of Monte Cristo, according to the news agency. In October, 25 people were killed at a riot at the same prison.

For years, the battered 9,500-year-old Jericho Skull has been one of the British Museum's most chilling exhibits -- as well as its oldest portrait.