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A growing number of doctors have stopped recommending weight loss when they see patients, arguing that it can be counterproductive.

Dozens of women and kids held hostage by Hamas for nearly two months returned home to Israel this week. Experts say reacclimating is a process — and there are ways professionals and parents can help.

New EPA rules require oil and gas companies to slash climate-changing methane from their operations.

Lina Lyte Plioplyte sees menstruation as a "beautiful cycle" that happens to half of the world's population — one that "we're not supposed to talk about it." Her new film aims to break the stigma.

What does it mean to live in a nation where one 1 of every 3 people is obese? In countless ways, obesity is changing the way we work, live, eat and travel. Here, a sampling of some of those changes.

In the aftermath of Japan's nuclear disaster, many countries are reassessing their own nuclear policies. This interactive map explores those nations that rely on nuclear power for a portion of their electricity, and those that have no nuclear plants, but hope to build them soon.

China has been steadily increasing its foreign investments outside of bonds in recent years. Explore where China is investing and where it has construction contracts in an interactive map.

For many Central American migrants crossing illegally through Mexico to the U.S., the journey starts as they hop a freight train. But the already perilous trip is more risky as they now fear kidnapping by Mexican drug cartels. Last year, hundreds of migrants went missing or were killed in Mexico.

The latest measure in Republican Gov. Greg Abbott's border crackdown "Operation Lone Star" makes it a state crime to enter Texas illegally from a foreign country.

Republicans blocked a procedural vote on a national security funding bill over demands for additional border security measures.