When you buy something for your home or family, the assumption is that it’s probably safe.  Somebody must be testing these items and paying especially close attention to products marketed for children and infants.  But the federal agency that’s supposed to protect American consumers faces major obstacles before it can …

“Face the Nation” Guest Lineup: Rep. Tom Emmer — (R) Minnesota, chairman of the National Republican Campaign Committee Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney — (D) New York, chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Jen Easterly — Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency David Becker — Executive director and founder for the Center …

A man fatally shot two Dallas hospital employees over the weekend after accusing his girlfriend who had just given birth of infidelity, authorities said. Jacqueline Pokuaa, a 45-year-old social worker, and Katie Annette Flowers, a 63-year-old nurse, were killed in Saturday’s shooting at Methodist Dallas Medical Center, according to police …

Stocks are rising in afternoon trading on Wall Street Tuesday as traders take in a heavy round of earnings reports from big U.S. companies. The S&P 500 rose 62 points, or 1.6%, to 3,859. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 337 points, or 1.1%, to 31,836 and the Nasdaq rose …

Several guns were recovered and three people were detained when authorities investigated a suspicious vehicle near the Capitol, U.S. Capitol Police said Wednesday. The three told officers they were there to deliver documents to the Supreme Court, Capitol Police said.  Tony H. Payne, 80, of Tunnel Hill, Georgia, was later …

More than half a million Americans typically look for extra work around the holiday season. With inflation at a record high and a  possible recession looming, more people are being driven to look for seasonal jobs.  And one expert says that even as the labor market begins to cool, it …

In agony due to a gunshot wound from an ambush that had just killed two comrades, a Connecticut police officer’s bodycam shows him hobbling back behind a police cruiser and firing a single bullet at the suspect. Investigators say the shot was fatal. “Shots fired, shots fired, more cars, send …

Stockholm — This year’s Nobel Prize in economic sciences has been awarded to the former chair of the U.S. Federal Reserve Board, Ben S. Bernanke, and two U.S.-based economists, Douglas W. Diamond and Philip H. Dybvig, “for research on banks and financial crises.” The prize was announced Monday by the …

New York congressman and Republican candidate for governor Lee Zeldin says his family is safe after two teenagers were shot outside his Long Island home Sunday afternoon. The boys, both 17, were walking with a third teenager on the street in Shirley, New York, where Zeldin lives when they were …

Sara Lee, the former WWE wrestler and winner of the reality TV series “Tough Enough,” has died at the age of 30, her mother said in a Facebook post on Thursday. Her cause of death has not been revealed.  “It is with heavy hearts we wanted to share that our …