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For nearly six decades, Bette Nash has been sharing her contagious smile with the world -- from 30,000 feet.

While the President-elect's refusal to release his taxes remains a point of contention with his critics, Donald Trump's fans maintain it's not an issue.

Howard Schultz, the visionary leader of Starbucks, will be stepping down next year as CEO of the iconic coffee giant.

The musical "La La Land" has danced its way into snagging a biggie at the New York Film Critics Circle Awards.

Rep. Luis Gutiérrez (D) says he will not attend Donald Trump's presidential inauguration but will march with protesters in Washington.

Many a child spent their youth scrambling up trees and building secret dens in the branches.

As birthdays go, Magnus Carlsen's 26th will take some beating.

Donald Trump vowed to bring the nation together and said thank you to Ohio on Thursday, saying the state had heard history's call and helped him win the presidency, even though his supporters called for his former opponent Hillary Clinton to be put in jail.

A President-elect stuns the political world by picking his onetime archenemy to become a member of his Cabinet. The two men had been public rivals, and the new president could not forget the slights his nemesis had inflicted -- including initially refusing to release his delegates to the nominee at the party convention -- but he gives him the Cabinet post anyway.

Menacing black smoke hangs over the town of al-Qayyara. The air here is poison.

The child sex abuse scandal that has rocked the English football world has taken a new twist after a former player accused one of the world's biggest clubs of buying his silence.

Four weeks after the election, tensions between top operatives at the Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton campaigns erupted during a Harvard Kennedy School Institute of Politics discussion that was intended to record history by drawing out the internal deliberations of both campaigns.

The creators of the hit play 'Harry Potter and the Cursed Child' are in exclusive talks with the Ambassador Theatre Group to bring the show to The Lyric Theater in New York.

North Korea has furiously rejected United Nations sanctions, accusing Security Council members of being puppets of the United States.

Four weeks after the election, tensions between top operatives at the Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton campaigns erupted during a Harvard Kennedy School Institute of Politics discussion that was intended to record history by drawing out the internal deliberations of both campaigns.

Many of Africa's leaders are turning up for Fidel Castro's funeral in what reads like a who's who of the continent's longest-serving presidents.

Sen. Jeff Sessions, Donald Trump's pick to be United States attorney general, launched a public campaign as Alabama attorney general in 1996 to prevent a gay rights group from holding a conference at the University of Alabama, according to a KFile review of contemporaneous press accounts and legal filings.

North Korean state media has released images of leader Kim Jong Un commanding military drills after the UN imposed new embargoes. CNN's Saima Mohsin has more.

Hundreds of thousands of Indonesians took to the streets Friday to protest Jakarta's embattled governor.

A federal jury in Dallas has ordered Johnson & Johnson and its subsidiary DePuy Orthopaedics to pay more than $1 billion to a group of plaintiffs over artificial hip replacements.