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Avid_creative/Getty Images(JUPITER, Fla.) -- One person is dead and four others were injured after they were electrocuted in a fountain at the Harbourside Place in Jupiter, Florida, first responders said. Around 3:30 p.m. police and firefighters responded to a call that a child was in the fountain in distress, which is located in front of a stage, and found multiple people, adults and children, who were hurt from the electric shock, Palm Beach County Fire Rescue and the Jupiter Police Department...

Karl Tapales/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Dozens of states are taking action Tuesday against Meta, the company that owns Facebook and Instagram, for allegedly harming young peoples mental health. A federal lawsuit and parallel state lawsuits allege that Meta knowingly designed and deployed harmful features on Instagram and Facebook that purposefully addict children and teens. The states also allege Meta routinely collects data on children under 13 without informing parents or obtaining parental co...

A member of the U.S. Coast Guard works during a rescue of four Canadians about 140 miles off the coast of North Carolina, in a still from a video released by the USCG on Oct. 22, 2023. -- U.S. Coast Guard(WILMINGTON, N.C.) -- Four Canadian mariners were rescued by the U.S. Coast Guard after their boat capsized 140 miles off the shore of Wilmington, North Carolina, the USCG said in a release. The Coast Guard Command Center received an emergency signal at 12:18 p.m. from Moon Dragon, a catamaran o...

Taylor Swift ProductionsTaylor Swift: The Eras Tour topped the domestic box office for the second straight grabbing an estimated $31 million. The concert film added an estimated $10.5 million, for a worldwide total of $164.8 million. Martin Scorseses Killers of the Flower Moon, based on David Granns bestselling book about the serial murder of members of the oil-wealthy Osage Nation, had to settle for a second place debut, earning an estimated $23 million at North American box office. There wa...

Luis Diaz Devesa/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Thousands of people have died and thousands more were injured after the militant group Hamas launched an unprecedented surprise attack on Israel on Oct. 7 and Israel retaliated with a bombing campaign and total siege of the neighboring Gaza Strip, leaving the region on the verge of all-out war. At least 1,400 people have died and 4,629 others have been injured in Israel, according to Israeli authorities. Another 4,651 people have died -- including 1,756...

Marilyn Nieves/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez is scheduled to be arraigned on Monday following new charges accusing him of violating a prohibition on members of Congress from acting as an agent of a foreign principal. He is expected to plead not guilty. His wife, Nadine Menendez, and three New Jersey businessmen accused of conspiring with the senator already pleaded not guilty to the same charges last week. Prosecutors filed a superseding indictment on Oct. 12 accusing Me...

Catherine Delahaye/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- The American Academy of Pediatrics is warning parents and caregivers that excessive exposure to loud noises can be detrimental to children, and sound machines can cause more harm to children than previously thought. In a statement released Saturday, the AAP said: "What families may not realize is that children are exposed to potentially harmful noise from infancy and that the effects are cumulative over a lifetime." ABC News medical correspo...

ABC News(WASHINGTON) -- The U.S. is "concerned" that fighting between Israel and Hamas, in the wake of Hamas Oct. 7 terror attack, could spill over into a broader conflict throughout the Middle East that would imperil American military forces, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Sunday. "Were concerned about potential escalation. In fact, what were seeing is the prospect of a significant escalation of attacks on our troops and our people throughout the region," Austin told AB...

Alex Haenke(EAST LANSING, Mich.) -- Michigan State University has issued an apology following an image of Hitler appearing on the scoreboard before Saturday nights game. Before the rivalry game against Michigan began, the image appeared on the jumbotron as part of a trivia question about Hitlers place of birth. Michigan State issued a statement, without mentioning the image of Hitler directly, saying the school used a third party for the trivia content and will no longer be using that company. &...

Justin Sullivan/Getty ImagesNEW YORK -- Four years before Lehman Brothers collapsed and set off the worst U.S. financial disaster since the Great Depression, Ruhi Maker warned top officials at the Federal Reserve that the nations housing bubble could wreak "enormous" economic damage. Maker, a housing attorney in Rochester, New York, told Fed officials that a flood of faulty home loans could imperil the soundness of major investment banks, even naming Lehman Brothers, according to a tra...