In his final year-end press conference, President Barack Obama had some harsh words for Russia, which he described as a "smaller," "weaker" country than the United States.

An apparent medical emergency interrupted President Barack Obama's final news conference of 2016 on Friday.

President Barack Obama is scheduled to hold his final end of the year news conference at 2:15 p.m. ET on Friday. Watch live below via NBC News:

President-elect Donald Trump will spend the holidays at his private club Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, a transition spokesman told reporters on Friday.

Trump transition spokesman Jason Miller told reporters on Friday morning that the President-elect remains committed to moving the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem from its current location in Tel Aviv.

Miller's comments came after Trump's intended nominee as U.S. ambassador to Israel, attorney David Friedman, said in a statement that he looks forward to working from "the U.S. embassy in Israel's eternal capital, Jerusalem." Friedman's remarks prompted questions about whether Trump would quickly act to move the embassy to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv, where it has remained through successive American administrations.

President-elect Donald Trump lashed out at White House press secretary Josh Earnest on Thursday night, calling him a "foolish guy."

White House press secretary Josh Earnest suggested on Thursday that President-elect Donald Trump knew when he called on Russia to hack into Hillary Clinton's email earlier this year that it would benefit his own presidential campaign.

The Trump Organization said Thursday that it has terminated three overseas licensing deals: two in Rio de Janeiro and one in Baku, Azerbaijan.

The federal judge presiding over a lawsuit Donald Trump brought against a celebrity chef who cancelled plans to open a restaurant in his new Washington, D.C. hotel has ordered the President-elect to sit for a deposition in New York during the first week of January.

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) suggested in a Thursday interview that his vote to confirm Rex Tillerson as President-elect Donald Trump's secretary of state will depend on the ExxonMobil CEO's position on imposing new sanctions on Russia.