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The influential US Preventive Services Task Force urged behavioral counseling for children and teens with very high BMI. Notably the group did not include Ozempic-like drugs in the recommendation.

It's called a use tax. Accountants and tax lawyers are some of the only people who pay it.

Still looking for a last-minute Christmas gift? A new poll finds that most people find cash or gift cards an acceptable holiday gift.

President Biden's latest speech on democracy comes the day after the Republican debate, as a government shutdown looms and as House Republicans hold an impeachment inquiry hearing.

At issue is the way the Republican-dominated state legislature equalized the population of its congressional districts.

Humans are still pumping enormous amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. That puts this decade's climate goals further out of reach.

Heavy rain from Ophelia will also pose a risk of flash flooding from Virginia to New Jersey, according to the National Hurricane Center.

United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is in Sri Lanka to discuss how to handle the quarter-million people displaced by that island nation's 25-year civil war. The government said more than 6,200 of its forces were killed and almost 30,000 wounded in the final three years of its war against the Tamil Tiger rebels, which ended last weekend.

At least 20,000 people were killed by a 7.6-magnitude earthquake along the Pakistan-Indian border on Saturday. Pakistani Kashmir was hardest hit. Robert Siegel talks with NPR's Philip Reeves about the latest developments.

For Groundhog Day in 2024, Punxsutawney Phil did not see his shadow, elating a massive crowd at Gobbler's Knob.