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The White House says the federal employees union is doing its members a disservice by urging them not to resign with the promise of administrative leave until September.

Doctors across the country have been debating the question of prospective mothers' ages, as reproductive technologies make it possible for women in their 60s to have children. Michele Norris talks with Dr. Elizabeth Ginsburg of Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston about her hospital's current debate over age limits for motherhood. We hear from Dr. Robert Stillman of the Shady Grove Fertility Center in Rockville, Md., who believes limits must exist. Finally, we talk with Margaret Janicki LaBarbera, who had her first child at 54.

The 54-year-old, who belongs to one of the most prominent families in South Carolina, faces a sentence of 30 years to life in prison for each murder conviction.

Howard University's Showtime Marching Band will be part of the inaugural activities. Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, a Howard graduate, often included drum lines in her campaign events.

Democrat Tim Kaine became the first candidate on a major-party White House ticket to deliver a speech in Spanish. He spoke at a church in Miami Sunday.

Can online comments be redeemed? That conversation, plus highlights from our tech coverage on-air and online, are in our latest week in review.

As part of our summer series on sweat, we get answers to the questions: Do we need to sweat during sleep? And, why does a warm bath help you sleep, even if it makes you sweat?

In a stark rebuke of Russia, Ukraine joins the West in celebrating Christmas on Dec. 25 instead of Jan. 6-7 as it traditionally has done.

A New Jersey jury found 19-year-old Rutgers University student Dharun Ravi guilty of a hate crime for using his webcam to spy on his roommate Tyler Clementi. Clementi was having an intimate encounter with another man in their dorm room and a few days later he committed suicide. Host Michel Martin discusses the case with law professor Jessica Henry.

Are you more an apple or a pear? If it's the former, you've got company. Americans' waistlines are growing, even though obesity rates have plateaued. And more belly fat increases health risks.