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The Facebook (FB, Tech30) CEO and cofounder said Tuesday that his New Year's resolution is to visit and meet with people from every state in the U.S. by the end of 2017.

Janet Jackson might be the most famous symbol of a growing trend: the 50-year-old mom.

British pop singer Rebecca Ferguson says she has been invited to perform at Donald Trump's inauguration, but her response may not be the RSVP the President-elect's team were expecting.

Donald Trump, either by design or default, sure got the headline he wanted on Tuesday. There it was, on CNN.com: "House Republicans pull plan to gut independent ethics panel after Trump tweets."

Face down in the mud, a baby boy lies still after being washed up on a river bank near a Rohingya refugee camp. CNN's Saima Mohsin reports.

House Speaker Paul Ryan will sit down with CNN's Jake Tapper for a prime-time town hall just one week before President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration.

Megyn Kelly will leave Fox News later this year and join NBC News.

President-elect Donald Trump revived the hot-button topic of Guantanamo Bay Tuesday, warning against further prisoner transfers from the detention facility during the waning days of the Obama administration. The White House, however, signaled it wouldn't follow Trump's lead, indicating further transfers were in store before President Barack Obama leaves office.

Paul Ryan was easily re-elected Speaker of the House of the 115th Congress, following a vote in the chamber Tuesday.

Former President George W. Bush and former first lady Laura Bush will attend President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration, the 43rd president's office said in a statement Tuesday.

United Airlines is investigating how a baggage handler became locked in the cargo hold of a regional jetliner and remained trapped during an hourlong flight.

Carrie Fisher was a complicated handful, high maintenance and off the wall, but a treasured friend for decades, "Star Wars" co-star Mark Hamill writes in a tribute to the late actress-writer.

A group of bipartisan senators is preparing a bill that would offer sanctions against Russia, lawmakers confirmed as the Senate convened a new session of Congress on Tuesday.

President-elect Donald Trump has made a bold bet on North Korea, saying the secretive country won't test an intercontinental ballistic missile that could reach the United States.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says an investigation of corruption allegations against him will find "nothing," according to a Tuesday post on his Facebook page.

Four people were killed when a tree fell on a home as a tornado swept through a rural Alabama community on Monday evening, authorities said.

A federal judge ruled Monday that Dylann Roof, convicted of killing nine people inside an African-American church in Charleston, South Carolina, is mentally competent to represent himself at the sentencing phase of his trial.

Republicans are wasting no time in their effort to repeal Obamacare.

The act of watering the ground after applying pesticide may seem innocuous, but it was enough to kill four children in Texas.

Syrian rebels are suspending talks in the lead-up to planned peace negotiations due to what they call "Syrian regime violations" of a four-day-old nationwide ceasefire agreement.