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Two studies suggest that antibiotics early in life may contribute to childhood weight gain. Experiments in mice and a look at the weight of more than 11,500 British babies point in the same direction.

A 6-year-old boy's day off from school Friday left him with a vivid story to tell his classmates, after he was seized — and eventually released — by an alligator in South Florida. The attack occurred at a wildlife refuge where the boy's father had taken his son for a canoe ride.

April job growth and unemployment figures are coming Friday morning. Economists expect to hear that employers added about 150,000 jobs to their payrolls and that the jobless rate stayed at 7.6 percent. But they worry about another negative surprise.

Everybody tries to figure out who will win. How about predicting the first surprise? Which teams will get bounced out before they "should" have been?

The Census Bureau estimates 1.5 million Americans claim Arab ancestry. But some advocates say the Arab-American community is more than double that size.

The 6% spike in hate crimes reported by the FBI for 2020 follows a recent upward trend in incidents. But some experts and advocacy groups say the true number is probably even higher.

The Democratic-led committee is targeting the communication records of individuals who've been charged with crimes related to the attack, and those who participated in a rally preceding the riot.

The number of people on the planet is growing at the fastest rate in history. U.N. demographers say the world's population will be up by 4 billion at the end of the century.

Relief payments moved 11.7 million people from poverty in 2020, according to new Census Bureau data.

The former president is suing the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack, as well as the National Archives, to prevent the turnover of documents related to the event.