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Gas Stove Ban 'On The Table' For Federal Agency: Reports

(Fox 9) -- The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission is considering a ban on gas stoves as concerns surrounding indoor air pollutants from the appliances continue to rise, according to reports. Bloomberg reported that the agency plans to act on the…

Chief: 6-Year-Old Boy Shot Virginia Teacher During Class

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (AP) — A Virginia police chief says a 6-year-old student fired the handgun that wounded a first-grade teacher while she was teaching class. Newport News Police Chief Steve Drew on Monday offered the first description of how…

Bills Safety Hamlin Back In Buffalo To Resume Recovery

ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) — Doctors who treated Damar Hamlin said the Bills safety was back in Buffalo on Monday, an uplifting sign of the remarkable progress he has made a week after going into cardiac arrest and having to be…

McCarthy’s Next Big Task: Win GOP Support For House Rules

WASHINGTON (AP) — After an epic 15-ballot election to become House speaker, Republican Kevin McCarthy faces his next big test in governing a fractious, slim majority: passing a rules package to govern the House. The drafting and approval of a set of rules is…

US Approves Alzheimer’s Drug That Modestly Slows Disease

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. health officials on Friday approved a closely watched Alzheimer’s drug that modestly slows the brain-robbing disease, albeit with potential safety risks that patients and their doctors will have to carefully weigh. The drug, Leqembi, is the…

2 Years After Jan. 6, Speaker Scrap Paralyzes Congress Again

WASHINGTON (AP) — Such are the fractures in the country, between the political parties and inside the Republican Party itself, that one time-honored specialty of Washington — memorializing and coming together over national trauma — isn’t what it used to be. Friday’s…

McCarthy Fails For 3rd Long Day In GOP House Speaker Fight

WASHINGTON (AP) — For a long and frustrating third day, divided Republicans left the speaker’s chair of the U.S. House sitting empty Thursday, as party leader Kevin McCarthy failed and failed again in an excruciating string of ballots to win enough GOP…

Bills: Safety Damar Hamlin Showing ‘Remarkable Improvement’

ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) — Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin has shown what physicians treating him are calling “remarkable improvement over the past 24 hours,” the team announced Thursday, three days after the player went into cardiac arrest and had…

Biden Restricting Nicaraguans, Cubans And Haitians At Border

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration on Thursday said it would immediately begin turning away Cubans, Haitians and Nicaraguans who cross the U.S.-Mexico border illegally, a major expansion of an existing effort to stop Venezuelans attempting to enter the U.S. Instead, the…

McCarthy Fails Again In Bid For Speaker, GOP In Disarray

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans flailed through a second day of multiple balloting Wednesday, unable to elect Rep. Kevin McCarthy as House speaker or to come up with a new strategy to end the political chaos that has tarnished the start of…

Idaho Slayings Suspect Agrees To Extradition To Face Charges

STROUDSBURG, Pa. (AP) — A criminology graduate student arrested for the November slayings of four University of Idaho students agreed Tuesday to be extradited from Pennsylvania, where he was taken into custody last week, to face charges in Idaho. Bryan…

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