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Justin Sullivan/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — Tesla will not be going private after all. Oft-eccentric billionaire owner Elon Musk announced his company will remain a public company despite a surprisingly Twitter missive to the contrary earlier [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — A Parks Department worker in New York City happened upon a grisly scene on a sidewalk outside Crotona Park on Friday when he found two black plastic bags with human body parts [Read More…]

Justin Sullivan/Getty Images(SANTA CLARA COUNTY, Calif.) — Verizon will stop imposing data restrictions on emergency first responders battling natural disasters, the communications giant announced Friday. Santa Clara County Fire Chief Anthony Bowden accused Verizon in [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(CHICAGO) — Parents are calling for the resignation of a Chicago school principal after she said students were barred from wearing certain items of clothing to keep them from being sexually assaulted. Melanie Beatty-Sevier, the [Read More…]

Yana Paskova/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — Michael Cohen’s striking accusation on Tuesday that then-candidate Donald Trump directed him to negotiate hush agreements to help the campaign, which violated campaign finance laws, sharpened interest in a separate [Read More…]

FWC(HUDSON, Fla.) — After hours of searching the waters off the coast of Florida, rescuers on Thursday found a missing diver who they said had spent an entire night alone, lost at sea, but said [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo.) — A bear attacked and injured a 10-year-old boy who was hiking with his family along a trail in Yellowstone National Park on Thursday morning. The unidentified family of four from [Read More…]

Cook County Sheriff’s Office(CHICAGO) — A Chicago-area man has been arrested for allegedly threatening to “shoot” and “blow up” the conference of conservative high school students held in Washington last month that grabbed headlines when [Read More…]

Mario Tama/Getty Images(HONOLULU) — As Hurricane Lane lurches north, the Category 3 storm has already dumped more than 31 inches of rain on Hawaii’s Big Island, bringing catastrophic flooding. The life-threatening flooding could even lead [Read More…]

GMA/ABC News(WILMETTE, Ill.) — A mother in Illinois said she felt “shock, anger and fear” after being investigated by state child services when a neighbor called authorities to report her 8-year-old daughter walking the family [Read More…]

Janet Weinstein/ABC News(CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas) — On the same South Texas beach pummeled by Hurricane Harvey this time last year, the Weeks family stretched out in the sand. Daughter Annabella, now 6, built sand castles [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(OLYMPIA, Wash.) — When witnesses told authorities they saw several men in white plastic jumpsuits grab and restrain three children in an Olympia park and put them in the back of a red truck, they [Read More…]

ABC News(HONOLULU) — Parts of Hawaii’s Big Island have already reported receiving more than 2 feet of rain as Hurricane Lane lurches northward at about 6 mph. The biggest threat from the Category 3 hurricane [Read More…]

Google(NEW YORK) — A 22-year-old man accused of firing a handgun at a high-rise building on Manhattan’s Upper East Side has turned himself in to police. Farris Koroma has been charged with two counts each [Read More…]

Mark Wilson/Getty Images(CHICAGO) — With “at least seven priests with connections to Illinois” identified in the recent grand jury report in Pennsylvania that revealed more than 300 priests allegedly assaulted more than 1,000 children, the [Read More…]

(HONOLULU) — Hurricane Lane is bearing down on Hawaii, dumping up to a foot of rain on the Big Island and lashing the state with rough winds. The Category 3 storm may bring over 30 [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — #TipTheBill is the latest challenge to explode on social media, and is showing how generosity and kindness can be contagious, as well as helping some lucky servers make ends meet. The origins [Read More…]

Google(NEW YORK) — New York City authorities have identified a man and women believed to be the snipers taking shots at a high-rise Upper East Side apartment building from across the East River, an NYPD [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(GAINESVILLE, Fla.) — While examining the invasive python population in Florida, researchers stumbled across the unexpected: a kind of hybrid super snake. A small number of the invasive pythons were found to be a crossbreed [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) — In the 2016 presidential election Facebook and other social media platforms were utilized by political campaigns and interest groups to run advertisements with very few rules regulating their disclosure and little public information [Read More…]