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Fisher-Price’s Rock ‘n Play sleeper has been linked to 32 infant deaths. Now the consumer safety agency is considering asking the company to recall the product.

The attorney general has launched an informal look at how and why the decisions were made about the early Russia investigation and by whom. It augurs another new phase of the Russia saga.

As a dramatic score plays, words appear on the screen: “First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they call you racist.” The video used music from The Dark Knight Rises without permission.

Close to 2.2 million people were incarcerated in the U.S. in 2016. Author Emily Bazelon says prosecutors, rather than judges, are responsible for many of the prison sentences defendants receive.

Islands in Southeast Asia were clearly important in the evolution of early humans, say scientists who have turned up 50,000-year-old remains of what they suspect is a previously unknown human species.

Financial aid offer letters look vastly different from one school to the next, and it isn’t always clear how much students will have to pay. “It’s really the Wild West,” one expert says.

The fatalities have forced the horse racing industry, and the public, to take a hard look at the sport and some of the issues that have been debated for years.

Being chief financial officer in a pot business requires lots of workarounds, including hiring heavily armed guards. Few financial firms are willing to service a market that remains federally illegal.

Just 6 episodes — an estimated 7 hours and 20 minutes — remain. Here are our predictions for which characters will (and especially won’t) make it through to the end of the final season — and why.

The guy who always calls it like he sees it remembers a late friend, mentor and outlaw music icon with a new album, GUY.

Without access to Facebook or Twitter, Chinese tech workers have gathered on GitHub, the world’s largest open-source programming platform, to complain about 12-hour days and demand better conditions.

In the Gulf of Mexico, an oil spill triggered by a powerful hurricane has been leaking for more than 14 years with no solution in sight. The federal government is stepping in to try and contain it.

With almost all votes counted, Prime Minister Netanyahu has the best chance of forming a government of right-wing parties.

A nurse was charged with reckless homicide and abuse after mistakenly giving a patient a fatal dose of the wrong medicine. Patient safety experts say this may actually make hospitals less safe.

The House Financial Services Committee is grilling executives from seven banks Wednesday about overdraft fees and executive pay. The hearing comes 10 years after the financial crisis.

Prosecutors allege doctors got kickbacks for prescribing unneeded back, shoulder, wrist and knee braces to elderly and disabled patients and charging the government’s Medicare program.

On Tuesday night, Magic Johnson told reporters he’s stepping down after a two-year stint as the president of basketball operations for the Los Angeles Lakers.

Japan’s military reported on Tuesday that it lost an F-35 stealth jet off the coast of Japan, in the Pacific. Pieces of the plane have been located and a search for the pilot is ongoing.

The song was everywhere during the 1967 gatherings in San Francisco. After it was used in a public service announcement, it became an anthem for the rest of the world.

What was once limited to small-scale side hustles has mushroomed into so-called essay mills on the Internet, becoming a global industry.

British drug maker Indivior faces felony charges after allegedly trying to falsely convince doctors that its opioid products were safer than cheaper generic alternatives.

The Trump administration wants to toughen border enforcement and deter asylum-seekers. New figures show that more than 100,000 migrants were apprehended at the U.S. Southern border in March.

The decision is a victory for the Trump administration’s efforts to pressure schools to abandon affirmative action policies still allowed by the Supreme Court.

The social media company said new artificial intelligence will figure out who has died, and make sure their profile doesn’t appear in “painful ways.”

Demonstrations began in December over the price of bread. Economic concerns have become political demands, and protesters now call for an end to regime of Omar al-Bashir.

Wisconsin created the Green Alert – a statewide call-out when family, friends or caregivers report a troubled veteran is missing. That may save lives, but it exposes a personal crisis to all.

NPR’s Jackie Northam describes what it was like recently sitting across a courtroom from a man accused of atrocities in Rwanda, 25 years after she covered the genocide.

The final results of the Israeli parliamentary election are too close to call. The election is largely seen as a referendum on Israel’s longtime right-wing leader Benjamin Netanyahu.

A “potentially historic spring blizzard” will hit this week, according to the National Weather Service office in Aberdeen, S.D.

Speaking to reporters Tuesday, President Trump restated an earlier falsehood in which he blamed the Obama administration for a policy the Trump administration in fact started.

The mayor signed a set of gun control bills that were introduced after the deadly shooting at the Tree of Life synagogue last October. Supporters faced immediate opposition from gun rights advocates.

The wage increase, which will be phased in by 2021, comes as the strong economy means employers are competing to fill open positions.

Democrats point to a 1924 law that allows Congress to request the tax returns of any taxpayer. But Trump and his defenders say the president’s returns are private and can’t be reviewed by Congress.