BARACK OBAMA

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks alongside President Barack Obama during a historic trip to Pearl Harbor.

Israel’s environmental protection minister has accused Vice President Joe Biden Biden of interfering in the vote.

Russia's Foreign Ministry took umbrage with the latest National Defense Authorization Act signed by President Obama.

Researchers in Detroit hope that zebrafish will help them to figure out what pesticides may trigger leukemia.

The justice ministry said officials seized a record total of 890 kilograms (1,962 pounds) of methamphetamines in raids this month.

Buckingham Palace said the British monarch did not attend Christmas Day service as she was suffering from a “heavy cold.”

President Denis Sassou-Nguesso will meet with President-elect Donald Trump to discuss the ongoing crisis in Libya and other issues concerning the African continent.

Abe will refrain from apologizing for the Japanese attack during his visit Tuesday.

President Barack Obama refuses to sit on the sidelines if Trump raises "foundational issues about our democracy."

Iran's beleaguered aviation industry is set for a major remodel after last year's nuclear deal lifted sanctions against Tehran.

Republicans are united in their opposition against Obamacare, yet unsure of how to handle revising Obama's major health care reform.

Raymond Kelly maintained that the surveillance of Muslim communities was simply "misunderstood" and similar "pro-active policing" would be needed to prevent attacks such as the one targeting a Berlin Christmas market last week.

A UN Security Council resolution passed Friday said Israel's settlements have "no legal validity" and urged all states to distinguish between Israel and "the territories occupied since 1967."

Israel slammed Friday's U.N. resolution to "cease all settlement activities in the occupied Palestinian territory, including East Jerusalem."

An upstate New York businessman made shocking statements after being asked by a local newspaper what he'd like to see happen in 2017.

"I would prefer Islam not to be mentioned in vain alongside terrorism," the Russian president said at his annual year-end press conference Friday.

"Let it be an arms race. We will outmatch them at every pass and outlast them all," the president-elect said.

On Thursday, the president-elect alarmed nonproliferation experts when he called for the U.S. to "greatly strengthen and expand its nuclear capability."

Former Sen. Joseph Lieberman says he thinks Arabs and Israelis are closer to peace than ever, but nothing will happen until the Palestinian issue is resolved.

Both investors and environmental activists fear the new administration will quash an SEC rule that pushes companies to address the impact of climate change.

The president-elect may find it hard to overturn Obama's decision to earmark parts of the Arctic and Atlantic Oceans as “indefinitely” off-limits to offshore oil and gas drilling.