Stephen C. Webster

A police officer who was caught on camera hosing down a group of student protesters with pepper spray for no apparent reason has filed for worker's compensation, asking taxpayers to pay him for a "psychiatric injury" he claims to have sustained in the incident's wake.

Dozens of protesters were arrested Thursday night for singing in Wisconsin capitol, in the second round of arrests triggered by a judge's ruling that all groups over 20 people must obtain a permit before demonstrating.

A group of U.S. Ssnators have sent a letter urging President Barack Obama to appoint Federal Reserve vice-chair Janet Yellen as the nation's first female chair of the Federal Reserve bank, according to The Wall St. Journal.

A rabid skunk attacked a 5-month-old Minnesota boy on Thursday, biting him several times on the face and even "inside of his mouth," according to local police.

The airborne particles put off by low-cost 3-D printers may be harmful to human health, U.S. researchers warned in a study published in the November issue of the journal Atmospheric Environment.