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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 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…]

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…]

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…]

Kevin Moloney/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — The injured middle school teacher who tackled a gunman in his Indiana classroom said, “my actions on that day, in my mind, were the only acceptable actions I could have [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — A historic expedition is scheduled for next week when long-distance swimmer Ben Lecomte begins a roughly 5,500-mile swim across the Pacific Ocean. Lecomte will start in Japan Tuesday and swim to San [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — The season’s first named subtropical storm, Alberto, is nearing landfall by Pensacola, Florida, as it brings heavy rain from Florida to Georgia to the Carolinas. As of 5 a.m., the storm was [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…]

KSTP(MINNEAPOLIS) — An 11-year-old boy in Minnesota is being hailed for helping to rescue a 3-year-old girl who nearly drowned at a beach over the Memorial Day weekend. Revelers enjoying unseasonably hot temperatures in Arden [Read More…]

Holly Hill Police Department(NEW YORK) — An employee closing up shop at a Little Caesars restaurant in Florida on Saturday night shot and killed a man in a clown mask after he was attacked with [Read More…]

ABC News(HONOLULU) — Allen Bertram heard the calls to evacuate, but decided to stay put unless lava came near his Hawaiian home. A week ago his home was surrounded by a hellish pool of fire. [Read More…]

Andrew Burton/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — As Starbucks prepares to shut down 8,000 company-owned stores on Tuesday for a mass employee teaching session on combating racial bias, the president of one of the nation’s oldest and [Read More…]

John Greim/LightRocket via Getty Images(NEW YORK) — A New Jersey police officer was recorded repeatedly punching a Philadelphia woman as they wrestled on the ground at a New Jersey beach over the Memorial Day weekend. [Read More…]