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If you’re active on TikTok, you’ve probably seen the video.  A group of dancers pose on stage in matching black and white uniforms. When the music starts and the women turn to the front, the crowd bursts into cheers. Their dance is sharp, energetic and confident — and when the …

In a case that exposed Silicon Valley’s culture of hubris and hype, Elizabeth Holmes was convicted Monday of duping investors into believing her startup Theranos had developed a revolutionary medical device that could detect a multitude of diseases and conditions from a few drops of blood. A jury convicted Holmes, …

A shooting spree that began in Denver Monday evening and ended up in the nearby city of Lakewood left five people dead, including the suspect, and three wounded, including a police officer, CBS Denver reports. Police said the gunman managed to elude officers twice. It wasn’t immediately clear what his …

Elon Musk said he will pay more than $11 billion in taxes this year, a week after taking to Twitter to say he will face the largest tax bill out of “any American in history.” Earlier this year, the Tesla CEO and SpaceX founder became the first person in the …

The mother of a Black motorist who was fatally shot by a suburban Minnesota police officer during a traffic stop testified that she was saw her son’s lifeless body in the driver’s seat on a video call just after the shooting. Daunte Wright’s mother, Katie Bryant, testified about the moment …

The body of five-year-old Elijah Lewis was found in a state park in Abington, Massachusetts, on Saturday, according to CBS Boston. The boy from Merrimack, New Hampshire, had been reported missing on October 14. Ames Nowell State Park was closed to the public as police searched the area Saturday morning. Investigators returned to …

A Florida girl who was allegedly abducted by her father in 2007 when she was 6 years old was reunited with her mother at the U.S.-Texas border, police said Monday. The girl’s mother, Angelica Vences-Salgado, said she received a message on social media from a woman in Mexico claiming to …

President Biden will travel to Queens, New York, and Manville, New Jersey, next week to survey storm damage from the remnants of Hurricane Ida, the White House said Saturday. He will make the trip on Tuesday, days after visiting Louisiana, which was also battered by Ida.  At least 49 storm-related …

Pitchers will be ejected and suspended for 10 games for using illegal foreign substances to doctor baseballs in a crackdown by Major League Baseball that will start June 21. The commissioner’s office, responding to record strikeouts and a league batting average at a more than half-century low, said Tuesday that …

Elon Musk hosted “Saturday Night Live” for the first time last week and the innovative business mogul made a personal announcement. “I’m the first person with Asperger’s to host SNL,” Musk revealed during his monologue. “Or at least the first to admit it,” he joked. While American psychiatrists no longer use …