Committing to a consistent exercise regimen isn't easy. Aside from finding the time to hit the gym or a fitness class, paying for memberships and class passes can add up quickly – especially for those on a stringent budget.

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Large sections of the Amazon rainforest are engulfed in flames, their smoke turning Sao Paolo’s midday skyline to total darkness. Brazilian forest fires are common at this time of year but have spiked since 2018. Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, who has encouraged logging in the Amazon, admits the situation is “chaos” and is mustering the military for a response. William Brangham reports.

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The manufacturers and distributors of opioid prescription painkillers have supplied billions of pills throughout the U.S. An investigative series by The Washington Post looks at the opioid epidemic through the DEA's newly public database that tracks every pain pill sold to pharmacies across the country. Steven Rich, The Post's data editor, joins Hari Sreenivasan with more.

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Billionaire and conservative mega donor David Koch has died. After expanding the Kansas-based Koch Industries into one of the world's largest privately held corporations, Koch and his brother contributed hundreds of millions to GOP candidates through their Americans for Prosperity PAC. David Koch also supported many philanthropic causes and declined to endorse President Trump. John Yang reports.

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It’s understandable if you’ve been waiting to see Italy.

The country has a reputation as a playground for the wealthy, with the likes of George and Amal Clooney hanging out around Lake Como or Chrissy Teigen and John Legend taking their children to Portofino.

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Do you struggle trying to fall asleep? Do you feel you don’t get enough sleep and you feel sleepy during the day? You are not alone. The American Academy of Sleep Medicine has found that one in three American adults have symptoms of insomnia. Data show there are about 100,000 crashes each year related to drowsy driving which results in 1,550 fatalities and 71,000 injuries. The Institute of Medicine reported that the long-term effects of sleep deprivation can cause serious health consequences such as hypertension, diabetes, heart attack, stroke, and depression.

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Most of the cultural conversation about vaccines focuses on children: Which children are getting them, which children aren’t and why, and how those decisions impact the rest of the population. So if you have memories of going to a pediatrician or health clinic as a kid, you might assume that you’ve had all the vaccinations you’ll ever need. You never have to think about it again, right? Unfortunately that’s not how immunity works.

“Adults need vaccines, too, to help them protect against preventable diseases,” David Kim, M.D., M.P.H., deputy associate director for Adult Immunization in the Immunization Services Division at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), tells SELF.

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If you’re a keen golfer but your putting game sucks, you might want to try getting hold of Nissan’s self-driving golf ball.

Tap Nissan’s high-tech ball on the green and watch as it whizzes off by itself, swerving this way and that before it finally finds the hole and drops in. Awesome shot every time!

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I was five minutes late for an interview. The receptionist made a point of saying, “You’re here for your 11 a.m. interview?” I didn’t want to call attention to being a few minutes behind, figuring that five minutes isn’t really late. Should I have said something?

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President Donald Trump told American congresswomen of color to “go back” to where they came from. He vowed to revive a racial slur to tear down Elizabeth Warren, promoted a wild conspiracy theory linking a past political opponent to the death of a high-profile sex offender and blamed Friday’s stock market slide on a low-polling former presidential candidate.

And that was just over the past six weeks.

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