Good news on the economy means bad news for Wall Street, with stocks tumbling Friday on worries a still-strong U.S jobs market may actually make a recession more likely. The S&P 500 sank 2.8% after the government said employers hired more workers last month than economists expected.  Even though job …

An El Paso woman is accused of kidnapping the baby of a migrant woman who had recently crossed the border and holding him for ransom for several months. Jenna Leigh Roark, 45, was arrested in September on charges of hostage-taking and aiding and abetting, according to a federal criminal complaint. …

Washington — Republican Sen. Rick Scott of Florida declined to criticize former President Donald Trump’s recent comments attacking Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, arguing the former president was talking about the harmful effects of inflation on low-income families when he claimed McConnell has a “death wish” after supporting a short-term …

Washington — Staffers in Democratic Rep. Andy Levin’s office have voted to form a union, becoming the first in Congress to do so, according to the Congressional Workers Union. The vote last week was the first union election in a congressional office in U.S. history, the Congressional Workers Union said …

Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones took the stand Thursday at his defamation trial in Connecticut as he tries to limit the damages he must pay for promoting the lie that the 2012 Sandy Hook school massacre was a hoax. More than a dozen family members of some of the 20 children …

Nearly every single Alaskan got a financial windfall amounting to more than $3,000 Tuesday, the day the state began distributing payments from Alaska’s investment fund that has been seeded with money from the state’s oil riches. The payments, officially called the Permanent Fund Dividend or the PFD locally, amounted to …

The independent arbiter tasked with inspecting documents seized in an FBI search of former President Donald Trump’s Florida home said Tuesday he intends to push briskly through the review process and appeared skeptical of the Trump team’s reluctance to say whether it believed the records had been declassified. “We’re going …

Law enforcement officials are investigating whether the reported package explosion at Northeastern University on Tuesday was a hoax, sources told CBS News on Wednesday. Authorities were called to the scene on Tuesday night after receiving a 911 call saying that a package sent to a campus building had exploded when …

The National Rifle Association is slamming the credit card industry’s new effort to track gun purchases, describing the plan as “creating a national registry of gun owners.” The NRA is pushing back against decision on Friday from the International Standards Organization (ISO), which sets rules across the financial services industry, …

A Las Vegas-area elected public official was ordered to be held without bail after he was arrested for the fatal stabbing of a veteran newspaper reporter whose investigations of the official’s work preceded his primary loss in June. Clark County Public Administrator Robert “Rob” Telles, a Democrat, was taken into custody …