@CowboyAstronut/Twitter(NEW YORK) — Severe weather caused significant damage across southeast Texas on Tuesday, as dangerous tornadoes were confirmed.

A “large and destructive” tornado was confirmed moving over Deer Park, in the Houston metro region,…

Catherine Falls Commercial/Getty Images(EAST BATON ROUGE, La.) — A Louisiana State University student who died after she was hit by a car while on her way home from a bar was allegedly raped shortly before the fatal crash, authorities said.

The East …

Brandon Dill for The Washington Post via Getty Images(MEMPHIS, Tenn.) — Tyre Nichols, the Black man whose death this month at the hands of five Memphis, Tennessee, police officers has triggered national outrage, suffered from “extensive bleeding cause…

Jason Marz/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — The Justice Department and eight other states filed a historic antitrust lawsuit Tuesday targeting Google over what they allege is the Big Tech giant’s monopoly over the online advertising market.

“Monopolies thr…

Yakima Police Dept.(YAKIMA, Wash.) — A man accused of fatally shooting three people at a Circle K convenience store and gas station in Yakima, Washington, early Tuesday is dead following an hours-long manhunt, authorities said.

The suspect died from …

Olena Ruban/Getty Images(EL PASO, Texas) — Patrick Crusius will plead guilty to shooting and killing 23 people at an El Paso Walmart in August 2019, according to a new court filing.

Crusius asked the court for a rearraignment hearing after federal pr…

Douglas Sacha/Getty Images(OAKLAND, Calif.) — At least one person is dead and seven more people have been injured in a shooting in Oakland, California, on Monday night.

The shooting — which comes only hours after the one in Half Moon Bay, California…

Sheila Paras/Getty Images(DES MOINES, Iowa) — Two students have died after a shooting at their Des Moines, Iowa, school on Monday, according to police.

The third victim, a school employee, is in serious condition after the shooting at Starts Right He…

Bloomberg Creative Photos/Getty Images(UVALDE, Texas) — In the hours after the May 2022 shooting at Robb Elementary School, U.S. Border Patrol Chief Raul Ortiz was quick to laud his agents’ actions, writing on Twitter that they “put themselves between…

filo/Getty Images(DALLAS) — A rare and endangered vulture has died an “unusual” death in its enclosure over the weekend in what police and zoo officials say “does not appear to be from natural causes.”

The death comes just days after a clouded leopar…

Lai Lai Ballroom(MONTEREY PARK, Calif.) — The suspected gunman who authorities say killed 11 people Saturday night at a crowded dance studio in Monterey Park, California, was a regular at the studio who “couldn’t get along well with people,” an acquai…

Kali9/Getty Images(HALF MOON BAY, Calif.) — Seven people were killed on Monday in a mass shooting at two locations in Half Moon Bay, California, authorities said.

One person was also taken to a hospital with life-threatening injuries, according to th…

Nhan and Quan Family(MONTEREY PARK, Calif.) — Eleven people have died following a mass shooting at a dance studio in Southern California.

Five men and five women were initially killed in the shooting, which took place near a Lunar New Year celebration…

ilbusca/Getty Images(RALEIGH, N.C.) — Six Raleigh, North Carolina police officers are on administrative leave and a man’s family and friends are looking for answers after he died hours after getting tased by police.

Darryl Tyree Williams allegedly yel…

STEFANI REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images, FILE(MEMPHIS, Tenn.) — The video footage of Tyre Nichols’ interaction with five Memphis police officers is “appalling,” “deplorable,” “heinous,” “violent” and “troublesome on every level,” Ben Crump, attorney for …

Oliver Helbig/Getty Images(DES MOINES, Iowa) — Two students have died after a shooting at their Des Moines, Iowa, school on Monday, according to police.

The third victim, a school employee, is in serious condition after the shooting at Starts Right He…

Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images(MONTEREY PARK, Calif.) — The mass shooting in Monterey Park, California, has compounded ongoing fears of violence against Asian Americans, community members say.

At least 10 people were killed and 10 others injured whe…

ftwitty/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — A federal jury in Washington, D.C. returned a guilty verdict Monday against a rioter seen in images from the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol putting his feet up on a desk in then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office.

T…

amphotora/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — A former top FBI official in New York has been arrested over his ties to a Russian oligarch, law enforcement sources told ABC News Monday.

Charles McGonigal, who was the special agent in charge of counterintelligenc…

ABC News(LOS ANGELES) — Two dance studios that provide space for joy, celebration and movement for their communities found themselves instead at the center of tragedy over the weekend.

Star Dance Studio, based in the Los Angeles suburb of Monterey Pa…

EVA HAMBACH/AFP via Getty Images(NEW YORK) — Scientists revealed on Tuesday that the “Doomsday Clock” has been moved up to 90 seconds before midnight — the closest humanity has ever been to armageddon.

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists moved the met…

ABC News(ALHAMBRA, Calif.) — The night was winding down after a Lunar Near Year celebration at the Lai Lai Ballroom & Studio in Alhambra, California, on Saturday, when Brandon Tsay heard the front door click close behind him.

“That’s when I turned ar…

ABC News(NEW YORK) — Seven months after she was working at a Texas elementary school the day a shooter killed 19 students and two teachers, Emilia “Amy” Marin sat down one Tuesday afternoon to read dozens of letters that had arrived from all over the …

ABC News(NEW YORK) — For the first time in history, Black mayors are leading America’s four largest cities.

ABC News’ Chief Washington Correspondent Jonathan Karl recently sat down with three of them — New York City Mayor Eric Adams, Los Angeles May…

Douglas Sacha/Getty Images/STOCK(BATON ROUGE, La.) — Police are investigating a shooting that injured 12 people at a Baton Rouge, Louisiana, nightclub.

The shooting occurred just after 1:30 a.m. Sunday at 4619 Bennington Ave in Baton Rouge, according…

Eric Thayer/Getty Images(MONTEREY PARK, Calif.) — Eleven people were killed and nine others were injured by a gunman who opened fire at a crowded dance studio in Monterey Park, California, on Saturday night, authorities said.

The suspect — identifie…

GETTY/Joos Mind(FLORIDA) — Police are “currently negotiating” with a woman who allegedly shot her terminally ill husband in his Florida hospital room on Saturday, authorities said.

The Daytona Beach Police Department said midday Saturday that it had …

GETTY/Ashley Cooper(NEW YORK) — Massachusetts man Brian Walshe appeared in court this week on charges he allegedly killed and dismembered his missing wife, Ana Walshe. The case echoes other high-profile cases in recent years involving husbands alleged…

Melina Mara/The Washington Post via Getty Images(NEW YORK) — They were designed to help people keep track of their valuables, devices and other products – but some claim that Apple AirTags have been used to track people.

Reports of people using the q…

ilbusca/Getty Images(HARTFORD, Conn.) — A state representative wants to restore a piece of Connecticut’s pre-colonial history to one of its major water streams.

State Rep. Anthony Nolan introduced a bill this week in the state that would restore the …