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Boris Johnson is a Conservative British politician famous for some decidedly undiplomatic utterances. But on Wednesday he became the UK's new foreign secretary, a role in which he oversees the country's diplomats and discusses sensitive matters with his global counterparts.

As more oil fields come on line and America's oil boom gets back on track, there simply won't be enough people to do the required drilling, well completion and other logistical work. Cheap oil wiped out nearly 170,000 oil and gas jobs since late 2014 as desperate companies scrambled to cut costs and avoid bankruptcy.

Some of Hillary Clinton's claims to Congress have now been proven false. But does that constitute perjury? Not necessarily. Read more at FactCheck.org

When people encounter tragedies, either in their own lives or the lives of others, they often try to make sense of it all.

Should parents kiss their children on the lips? That's the debate Victoria Beckham unintentionally started when she posted a photo with her daughter Harper.

The key to robbing frustration of its oxygen is perspective. Here's how to get some, quick.

It's something akin to raising the dead.

CEO Howard Schultz said the company will create a new brand of stores, called Starbucks Reserve-only. The new stores will offer premium, small lot reserve coffee in more of a cafe environment than the current Starbucks stores.

A memorial honoring fallen police officers in Richmond, Virginia was vandalized with red paint, authorities said.

Hillary Clinton has a new line of criticism against Donald Trump -- he's not fit for kids.

Hundreds of us were stopped dead in our tracks -- awestricken by an alien spaceship-looking thing that was literally floating over our heads.

A young boy takes the stage. In a shaky voice, he says, "My name is Royce. My poem is titled, 'White Boy Privilege.'"

Dylan Noble died in June after police shot him four times: twice as he approached officers, twice while he was on the ground, still moving.

As Donald Trump's Trump University lawsuit moves forward in court, CNN's Drew Griffin sits down with a former instructor who said he was the best salesman at the school.

It was the largest nuclear disaster since Chernobyl, and since March 11, 2011, parts of Fukushima, Japan, have lain silent, abandoned in the days and weeks following a nuclear meltdown at the Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant.

NBA stars Carmelo Anthony, Chris Paul, Dwyane Wade and LeBron James kicked off the ESPY Awards by promoting social change.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has deemed whole-body cryotherapy a sham -- and a risky one at that.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is collecting semen from hundreds of men in the United States in order to figure out how long the dreaded Zika virus lasts in the bodily fluid.

The United States is trying to verify that an airstrike recently killed a high-ranking ISIS commander, and the Pentagon confirmed Wednesday that in a separate action it took out a commander of the Pakistani Taliban who was responsible for the deaths of more than 130 children.

America is reeling after a heart-wrenching Independence Day week.