LAS VEGAS -- The story seemed straightforward: The unarmed security guard approached Stephen Paddock's room on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino, distracting the gunman and potentially saving lives.

With a gunshot wound to his leg, he helped point officers to the gunman's location and stayed behind to evacuate hotel guests.

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MILWAUKEE -- What you would probably notice first about Thomas Richards are his eyes.

He's just 17 months old, but perhaps because he is unable to speak, he uses his eyes the way other babies coo and babble. All the subtle little muscles around his eyes go to work. They engage you.

And then comes the grin. Once Thomas has caught your eyes, he ...Read more

DES MOINES, Iowa -- Democrats in the Midwest know that the way to win back voters in states such as Iowa is to talk about the economy, but they're debating how exactly to do it.

As a state that can make or break presidential campaigns, and one that had regularly sent liberal Democrats to Washington, Iowa now serves as a test of whether ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Rep. Mark Sanford is facing what is arguably his first competitive re-election campaign since returning to Congress in mid-2013 -- and both his Republican and Democratic challengers raised more money than the South Carolina lawmaker this summer.

Sanford, however, holds a major cash advantage in the latest round of fundraising ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- The White House is rebuffing a House committee's bipartisan request for detailed information about the Trump administration's use of private email for government work and executive branch use of government and chartered aircraft.

In two letters Monday from White House congressional liaison Marc Short, the top Republican and ...Read more

As guardians of health and gatekeepers to the world of medicine, primary care doctors are expected to plunge dauntlessly into the most delicate topics with their patients. Now, in the wake of the worst mass shooting in recent U.S. history, a new campaign is challenging these physicians to talk to their patients about guns.

As doctor questions ...Read more

SANTA ROSA, Calif. -- The Sonoma County Search and Rescue Team arrived Sunday on Dover Court around 2:30 p.m. The neighborhood was gone. There was nothing recognizable as a home, except the chimney, and the rough outlines of a foundation.

They had very little to go on. They knew her name was Mary. She was elderly. And she lived alone.

She had ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- A conservative group is launching a six-figure television ad buy targeting Democratic senators in three states that President Donald Trump won, pressing them to embrace a Republican-led push for a tax overhaul.

The ad buy from the Job Creators Network is the latest in what the group says will be a multimillion-dollar campaign ...Read more

ATLANTA -- A 24-year-old mother of four is accused of killing her two youngest sons "by placing them in an oven and turning it on," according to an arrest warrant obtained Monday by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

An official autopsy is pending.

The arrest warrant alleges Lamora Williams put her sons in the oven sometime between midnight ...Read more

Senator calls on Ivanka Trump to cut tie to World Bank women's fund

WASHINGTON -- Ivanka Trump should cut ties with a World Bank fund focusing on women's empowerment, an initiative the U.S. president's daughter has championed, because her clothing brand may benefit from her involvement, Sen. Ben Cardin said in a letter to Treasury Secretary ...Read more

NEWARK, N.J. -- The bribery charges against Sen. Robert Menendez have survived a legal challenge for now, a relief for government prosecutors negotiating a tricky new landscape for corruption cases that the Supreme Court created with a decision a year ago.

Menendez, D-N.J., once the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, was ...Read more

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- A nursing home staff worker called 911 seeking help for an 84-year-old woman in cardiac arrest, citing the facility's lack of air conditioning.

"I just noticed, because we don't have any air conditioning, so I saw her slouch over," the attendant tells 911, according to audio recordings released by the city of Hollywood ...Read more

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- A woman driving a Hyundai Santa Fe that struck and killed a toddler who ran into a Deerfield Beach street was dragged out of her SUV and beaten, the Broward Sheriff's Office said Monday.

Neallie Junior Saxon III, who would have turned 2 on Dec. 12, was struck by a maroon 2007 Hundai Santa Fe at about 4:45 p.m. local ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Ivanka Trump should cut ties with a World Bank fund focusing on women's empowerment, an initiative the U.S. president's daughter has championed, because her clothing brand may benefit from her involvement, Sen. Ben Cardin said in a letter to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin.

Cardin, a Maryland Democrat, wrote that Trump, who ...Read more