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Higher levels of BPA in urine taken from mothers during pregnancy were associated with slightly "worse behavior" among their 3-year-olds, especially in girls, researchers found. But BPA exposure after birth didn't show the same pattern.

Federal prosecutors are set to file criminal charges Wednesday against Rajat Gupta, a board member of Goldman Sachs. He's been investigated for his ties to hedge fund manager Raj Rajaratnam, who was sentenced to 11 years in prison. Also, IBM has announced a new CEO. Virginia Rometty will be the first woman to run the 100-year-old technology company.

In Frankfurt, Germany's financial capital, all eyes are on the debt crisis meeting in Brussels. Frankfurt is home to Europe's leading stock exchange and some of the largest banks and investment firms on the continent. More recently it's also home to street demonstrators sharply critical of the current state of capitalism. The two worlds have yet to meet.

Ari Shapiro speaks with San Francisco Chronicle reporter Matthai Kuruvila about Tuesday's dramatic clashes between police in Oakland, California, and protesters supporting the Occupy Wall Street movement.

Ari Shapiro talks with Edward DeMarco, the director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, about the Obama administration's efforts to help more Americans refinance their homes.

An unnamed actress is suing Amazon for more than a million dollars for revealing her age on the Amazon-owned Internet Movie Database, or IMDB. The lawsuit says the actress is many years older than she looks, and that being "perceived to be over the hill" will hurt her career.

Rajat Gupta led the elite consulting firm McKinsey & Company and was on the board at Goldman Sachs. His attorney has said Gupta did nothing wrong.

Sgt. 1st Class Kristoffer B. Domeij, 29, was killed by an improvised explosive device. Few others likely spent as much time in the war zone over the past decade.

Two nonprofit advocacy groups in Colorado are trying to take back the moniker as something to be proud of. The president has said he likes the term, which has been used derisively by opponents of the health overhaul.

Since 2006, 40,000 people have been murdered in Mexico as drug cartels battle each other and the Mexican military. Journalist Ioan Grillo traces how Mexico came to control drug trafficking in El Narco.