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Donald Trump is historically unpopular and often named as the worst president ever.

Fifty years after the Woodstock festival became a highpoint of 1960s counter-culture, featuring performances by Jimi Hendrix, Joe Cocker, Janis Joplin and other icons of the era, an anniversary event is planned at the same site in New York.

North Carolina Republicans on Friday demanded that their party’s candidate be declared winner of a disputed U.S. congressional race following legal developments that threatened to derail an ongoing state probe into possible election fraud.

As the government shutdown entered its seventh day and the Trump administration advised furloughed federal employees to pay their rent by performing household tasks for their landlords, panelists on CNN's The Lead debated whether President Donald Trump would make good on his threat to also shut down the border.

On Friday, the executive director of the North Carolina Republican party appeared on CNN to dispute charges that election irregularities improperly aided Republicans in the state during the midterm election.

A 37-year-old door-to-door salesman claims an off-duty cop pulled a gun on him because he's black, reports the San Gabriel Valley Tribune. 

Friday marked day seven of the government shutdown that has left 800,000 federal employees without pay over the holidays.

The government shutdown in Washington continues with no resolution in sight, a fitting conclusion to the news cycle in 2018, which seemed to lurch from crisis to crisis.

Did Michael Cohen travel to Prague during the 2016 campaign as part of a covert conspiracy with Russians to interfere in the 2016 election? The simple question has become increasingly vexed as Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation ramps up.

A top Chinese university has cracked down on a campus student Marxist society, replacing its leadership after its former head was detained and questioned by police on the sensitive 125th birthday of the founder of modern China, Mao Zedong.

The quintet of tech stocks known as FAANG — an acronym for Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix and Google — were once lauded as market's darlings, included in many institutional portfolios and lauded as reliable and robust ticker symbols that consistently delivered returns and served as a bellwether for the economy at large.

U.S. oil prices rose on Friday to claw back some of the ground they lost in the previous session, but growth in U.S. crude stockpiles and ongoing concerns about the global economy kept markets under pressure.