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The federal safety inspectors who protect kids from dangerous and deadly toys were not standing guard for nearly six months while this year’s holiday gifts entered the U.S. by the shipload.  Princess palaces and playhouses, water guns and tricycles landed on store shelves and front doorsteps without the usual security checks for lead, chemicals or choking hazards.  Government leaders had secretly sent home the nation’s toy police.  The Consumer Product Safety Commission pulled its inspectors from ports around the country in mid-March because of the threat of COVID-19. Leaders of the fe...

Marcio Jose Sanchez / AP The federal safety inspectors who are supposed to protect kids from dangerous toys weren’t standing guard for nearly six months while this year’s holiday gifts entered the United States by the shipload, a USA Today investigation has found. Princess palaces and playhouses, water guns and tricycles landed on store shelves and front doorsteps without the usual safety checks for lead, chemicals or choking hazards because federal government leaders had secretly sent home the nation’s toy police. The Consumer Product Safety Commission pulled inspectors from ports in...

The FDA late Friday authorized the Pfizer vaccine for emergency use. President Donald Trump hailed it as a 'medical miracle.' Latest COVID-19 news.

Ten months and 20 days after the first case of COVID-19 was confirmed in the United States, the Food and Drug Administration has granted emergency authorization to a vaccine that data shows is highly effective at preventing a disease that has killed nearly 300,000 Americans.  The vaccine, from Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech, was developed at a historically swift pace, besting early estimates that projected it would be a year or more before a COVID-19 vaccine would be authorized. Cutting-edge science and extraordinary funding helped compress that timeline, leading to a vaccine believe...

Coronavirus live updates: Trump says first Pfizer vaccines will be administered 'in less than 24 hours' Elinor Aspegren, Cara Richardson, Joshua Bote, Grace Hauck and Joel Shannon, USA TODAY Will you be required to take a COVID-19 vaccine to go back to work? Replay Video UP NEXT Ten months and 20 days after the first case of COVID-19 was confirmed in the United States, the Food and Drug Administration has granted emergency authorization to a vaccine that data shows is highly effective at preventing a disease that has killed nearly 300,000 Americans.  © AFP PHOTO / MOUNT SI...