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After decades of increases, U.S. obesity rates overall seem to be flattening out, the CDC says. But obesity is rising among middle-aged women, and particularly among black and Hispanic women.

On an app that allows users to remain anonymous, the person warned black students to stay off campus. The University of Missouri said the suspect was apprehended off campus.

Hanging in orbit just 3,700 miles above the surface of Mars, the planet's closest moon, Phobos, seems to be undergoing a "structural failure," NASA says.

The plane crashed into a small apartment building while attempting to land at a nearby airport.

Donald Trump met with black pastors Monday in an event that was at first billed as an endorsement. Trump has been criticized for his suggestion that a Black Lives Matter protestor who was roughed up at a Trump event deserved it.

On Sunday, Ferguson, Mo., marked 1 year since the shooting death of Michael Brown by a police officer. Later there were 2 incidents in which shots were fired — a man was critically wounded.

Daniel Holtzclaw was convicted of raping and sexually assaulting multiple women while on the job. A judge has sentenced him to 263 years, served consecutively — the maximum possible sentence.

Not since the fallout from the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre has China's economy grown at such a slow pace: at just below 7 percent last year.

The U.S. lost three points from its 2014 score. Despite gains in some countries, an annual index shows that 68 percent of the world's countries have "a serious corruption problem."

The White House is proposing more than $1 billion in new funding to fight heroin and opioid drug abuse.