Fidget spinners emerged this spring, seemingly from out of nowhere, as a must-have gadget. Before December 2016, Google searches for the words "fidget spinner" were basically nonexistent.

Certain fidget spinners being sold at Target contain as much as 330 times the federal legal limit for lead in children's products, according to the U.S. Public Interest Research Group.

In the first 12 days of June, there were 9.9 fidget spinner videos in the top trending list on average, up from 7.5 videos on an average day in May and 1.4 videos on an average day in April.

Helen Holden heard about fidget spinners last month when her 7-year-old twins demanded she stop at a 7-Eleven to buy them. “I thought it was a drink,” says the bank vice president and blogger ...

Fidget spinners are supposed to be calming and fun, especially for students struggling to focus. But after some dangerous incidents involving the popular gizmos, the US Consumer Product Safety ...

According to the SpinnerList, a database for fidget spinners and makers, 32 percent of the largest high schools in the United States have banned the toys or plan to ban the toy by the end of the week.

Fidget spinners are the hot new toy. Kids love them. Teachers and schools, not so much. If you've never heard of a fidget spinner, it's a toy with a ball bearing in the middle and prongs (usually ...