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Elon Musk has added Twitter to the list of his companies, which includes Tesla and SpaceX. Here are the major twists and turns in his tumultuous courtship of the social network.

Scientists at the University of Tokyo found that rats possess the ability to keep the beat to musical pieces from Mozart.

Jake Flint married his wife Brenda on Saturday and died in his sleep a few hours later on Sunday morning, according to news reports.

Your Christmas celebration is about to get funkier — and, it goes without saying, better.

The White House will tomorrow renominate more than a dozen candidates for judicial positions on federal courts, a person familiar with the administration's plans tells NPR. The Senate failed to vote on the nominees last year.

Two-year-old Taylen Mosley of St. Petersburg, Fla., was declared missing the same day his mother was found stabbed to death in her apartment, police said.

Bronny James committed to join the University of Southern California's basketball team in May. He was practicing with the team earlier this week when he went into cardiac arrest.

Nominations for the 79th Academy Awards were announced today. The musical Dreamgirls garnered eight nominations — but won't be considered for best picture or best director. Babel netted seven nominations, followed by Pan's Labyrinth and The Queen, with six each.

For the first time in five years, the poverty rate in the United States did not increase, according to new numbers released by the Census Bureau. The national poverty level remained steady at 12.6 percent. That's about 37 million people living in poverty, the U.S. Census Bureau says.

Flint Community Schools said it has concerns about the national landscape of gun violence across the nation. The ban went into effect Monday.