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WLS(CHIGAGO) — A Chicago Fire Department diver died and two others were injured Monday night while searching for a missing boater in the Chicago River, officials said. The Chicago Fire Department confirmed via a Twitter [Read More…]

Martin H. Simon-Pool/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — The number of journalists imprisoned on dubious charges brought by the governments they cover is on the rise, and some experts say “fake news” is to blame. At least [Read More…]

Scott Olson/Getty Images(SANTA FE, Texas) — Santa Fe High School students were greeted by community members holding signs of support as they returned to class Tuesday morning for the first time since a mass shooting [Read More…]

Atlantide Phototravel/Getty Images(SEATTLE) — For four hours Tuesday, more than 170,000 Starbucks employees will set aside the Frappuccinos and espresso machines to learn how to avoid the kind of racial bias that many say led [Read More…]

ABC News(NEW YORK) — Subtropical Storm Alberto made landfall Monday evening near Laguna Beach, Florida, but because the system is comparatively disorganized, there was no major wind damage in the Southeast. The highest wind gusts [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(PARIS) — A West African migrant is being praised in France for scaling a building to save a boy hanging from a fourth-floor balcony in Paris. The man, Mamoudou Gassama, will be made a French [Read More…]

@MartinFLSheriff/Twitter(STUART, Fla.) — A large fire ripped through a senior-citizen condominium community in South Florida late Monday, injuring two people and destroying at least 10 units at the property. Emergency officials responded to Cedar Pointe [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(LIEGE, Belgium) —  Two policewomen were among three people killed in Belgium on Tuesday when a man stabbed them, took their guns and shot them in what authorities have since deemed a terror attack. The [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(LIEGE, Belgium) — Two police officers were among three people shot and killed in Belgium on Tuesday. A gunman fired on the officers and a passerby near a school in Liege, about 60 miles east [Read More…]

Sanrio/Western Japan Railway Co.(TOKYO) — For a limited time, a high-speed bullet train featuring the lovable Hello Kitty will launch in summer of this year. The railroad cars will be stylishly embellished with the character’s [Read More…]

U.S. Geological Survey via Getty Images(PAHOA, Hawaii) — Ten more homes in the path of Hawaii’s Kileaua volcano eruption have been destroyed overnight by fast-moving lava, a spokesperson for the Hawaii County Civil Defense told [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(PARIS) — The father of a 4-year-old boy who was rescued from a Paris balcony this weekend had been out grocery shopping and playing Pokémon Go instead of watching his child, according to a French [Read More…]

@michaelscig72/Instagram(NEW YORK) — Alberto, the first named subtropical storm of the 2018 season, has made landfall on the Florida panhandle, bringing heavy rain, gusty winds and flash flooding to the area. The storm, which began [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(SANDUSKY, Ohio) — Amusement park-goers enjoying their Memorial Day at Cedar Point in Ohio had to be escorted off rides after a section of the park lost power, a spokesperson confirmed to ABC News. The [Read More…]

KTRK-TV(HOUSTON) — An angry Texas Jack in the Box customer said “buy you a ticket back to Mexico” to a worker after a dispute over a coupon, according to a video of the exchange. Footage [Read More…]