Introducing FunctionGemma

Following the death of her daughter, Trista Hamsmith turned her grief into action to help make button batteries harder for kids to access — but the law that passed didn’t apply to toys. Hamsmith tried to get the Consumer Product Safety Commission to apply the standard to toys, but the effort stalled over the summer. The agency has lost key leadership and staff, and now, two former CPSC commissioners are issuing warnings to consumers:

I Picked Up a 'Velcro Cat' - The Stray That Refuses to Leave My Body Today's rescue story took a wild turn. I thought I was heading out to check on a lost or abandoned cat after my neighbor sent me a video of a clean-looking kitty following him around. I figured it might be wandering near the neighborhood, and there was no way I'd let it freeze outside - especially during weather like this. So I grabbed my tools, some cat food, and went on the rescue mission. When I finally found the cat, it did