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Also: Some senators continue talks ahead of the looming federal debt ceiling crisis; South Dakota ranchers lose thousands of cattle to this month's blizzard; two tropical storms churn just off Mexico's Pacific coast; and the Nobel Prize in Economics goes to three Americans.

Also: The Medicare administrator will testify to a House panel about issues with the government's health exchange website; lawmakers compromise to defer flood insurance premium increases; former congressman Ike Skelton (D-Mo) dies; and apps for safe trick-or-treating.

Also: The Obama Administration will briefly delay the health insurance penalty deadline; Germany summons the U.S. ambassador over allegations of spying; military training is implicated in one Australian bushfire; and the Vatican's newly formed cricket team will play a Church of England team.

From hand sanitizers to anti-bacterial soaps, we go to great lengths to keep our skin microbe-free, but is all that scrubbing necessary, or even healthy?…

Keno sales in New Hampshire have topped $1 million in just over a month.The electronic bingo game Keno kicked off in December. It’s now in 45 bars and…

The Senate Armed Services Committee hears testimony from Navy Vice Adm. Albert Church, whose Pentagon report on treatment of detainees in U.S. custody did not find any senior-level responsibility for abuses.

To help guide you as findings from the Jan. 6 hearings emerge over the next few weeks, NPR has rounded up a list of books about the assault on the U.S. Capitol and the people and groups involved.

In a year filled with gripping health stories, here are the ones that were the most popular with Shots readers. Think beauty pageant queens, pronouns and Ebola.

Gov. Ralph Northam is being called on to resign after a racist photo surfaced. The two Democratic officials in line behind him to assume the governorship are both embroiled in scandals of their own.

President-elect Barack Obama's top choice for U.S. attorney general seems to be Eric Holder. Holder was the No. 2 official in the Justice Department under President Clinton. The Obama team says no final decision has been made.