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NEW YORK — (CNN) The obesity epidemic has gone global, and it may be worse than most thought. A new study in The Lancet says that if current trends continue, 18% of men and 21% of women will be ...

SACRAMENTO, CA — (CNN) California has become the first state in the nation to approve a statewide $15 minimum wage. Both the State Assembly and State Senate passed the measure on Thursday aftern...

CHICAGO — (CNN) Eighty-year-old Betty Johnson has lived in Chicago’s Roseland neighborhood since 1968. She raised two children and several grandchildren on the city’s far south side,...

Starbucks is one of the latest companies to sign a letter asking North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory to repeal the state’s anti-LGBT law. The letter originally came out on Tuesday with the signa...

Apple has updated Siri’s response to statements such as “I was raped” after research found the digital assistant’s responses were “insufficient.”A recent study publ...

DOHA, QATAR (CNN) — He’s the migrant worker busting a gut to build Qatar’s shiny soccer stadiums that will host FIFA’s World Cup in 2022 — at a price.For Prem — a m...

MINNEAPOLIS (CNN) — Minneapolis police Officers Mark Ringgenberg and Dustin Schwarze will not face charges in the November shooting death of 24-year-old Jamar Clark, Hennepin County Attorney Mik...

TULSA, OKLAHOMA (CNN) — The blare of tornado sirens filled the Oklahoma night Wednesday as at least one tornado struck the state, according to the National Weather Service office in Tulsa.Seven ...

 WASHINGTON (CNN) — Nearly 14 million Americans are living in extremely poor neighborhoods, more than twice as many as in 2000, a new report has found.The economic downturn in the early 200...

WASHINGTON (CNN) — Ben Carson excused Donald Trump’s comment that women who undergo abortions should face “some form of punishment” — and his subsequent reversal — ...