Aug. 8 (UPI) -- A New York-based mattress company is seeking professional "sleepers" to get paid for taking naps and documenting the experience on social media.

Aug. 8 (UPI) -- Republican Federal Trade Commissioner Noah Phillips will resign this fall, according to an email sent to FTC staff. Phillips blamed a lack of open discussion and compromise at the agency for his departure.

Aug. 8 (UPI) -- Outgoing Republican Rep. Adam Kinzinger is leading a program to recruit "pro-freedom, pre-democracy" candidates to run for public office and win elections.

Aug. 8 (UPI) -- Artificial Intelligence systems cannot patent inventions because they are not human beings, a U.S. Federal Circuit Court has ruled.

Aug. 8 (UPI) -- Animal rescuers in Iowa said they have successfully captured a peacock that was on the loose for multiple days in a residential neighborhood.

Aug. 8 (UPI) -- The expectation among consumers that the United States will continue to see high inflation "fell sharply" in July with declines in gas prices, according to a survey Monday from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

Aug. 8 (UPI) -- An Idaho man set a Guinness World Record when he used alternating wrists to hit a volleyball 515 times in 1 minute.

Aug. 8 (UPI) -- Firefighters in Texas came to the rescue of a horse that became stuck on its side in deep mud.

Inflation is putting Americans' health at risk, with nearly 2 in 5 struggling to pay for the care they need, according to a new West Health-Gallup poll.

Aug. 8 (UPI) -- A new study found botanical supplements of mucuna pruriens, a tropical legume, contained high levels of levodopa that could harm health -- and "unpredictably complicate" management of Parkinson's disease.