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Family photo via KTRK-TV (HOUSTON) — Police are ramping up the pressure to find the person who shot a 9-year-old girl in an apparent road rage incident in Houston. Ashanti Grant is improving, but remains in critical condition and “fighting for her life” following the Feb. 8 shooting, Houston Police Chief Troy Finner said at […]

(NEW YORK) — The megadrought that has been plaguing the Southwestern U.S. for at least two decades is causing the region to experience its driest conditions in 1,200 years, according to new research. Researchers analyzed tree ring patterns, which provide insights about soil moisture levels over long timespans, and found that the current megadrought has […]

(BRUNSWICK, Ga.) — A jury has been seated in the federal trial of three white Georgia men charged with hate crimes stemming from the murder of Ahmaud Arbery, a 25-year-old Black man who was out for a jog in 2020 when he was chased and gunned down. The 16 jurors, including four alternates, were empaneled […]

WABC-TV (NEW YORK) — A 35-year-old woman was stabbed to death in her downtown Manhattan, New York apartment in what appeared to be a random attack. Christina Lee got out of a cab at about 4:23 a.m. Sunday and was followed into her Chinatown apartment building, according to New York City police. When officers responded […]

Tempura/iStock (NEW YORK) — As the COVID-19 pandemic has swept the globe, more than 5.8 million people have died from the disease worldwide, including over 919,000 Americans, according to real-time data compiled by Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Systems Science and Engineering. About 64.4% of the population in the United States is fully vaccinated against […]

(NEW YORK) — A Charlotte, North Carolina, city bus driver has died after being shot while at the wheel and on his route with passengers aboard in what police are investigating as a possible road rage incident, authorities said. Ethan Rivera, 41, a driver for the Charlotte Area Transit System, died at a hospital Saturday […]

(NEW YORK) — The deaths of two young aspiring rappers last week have reinvigorated the debate about drill music, a popular subgenre of rap, and its connection to violence. Jayquan McKenley, an 18-year-old aspiring rapper from the Bronx known as CHII WVTTZ, was shot and killed Sunday morning while leaving a recording studio in the Brooklyn […]

(NEW YORK) — The world’s biodiversity is constantly being threatened by warming temperatures and extreme changes in climate and weather patterns. And while that “doom and gloom” is the typical discourse surrounding how climate change is affecting biodiversity, another interesting aspect of the warming temperatures is how different species have been adapting over the decades, as […]

(NEW YORK) — In the five years since Utah passed the strictest legislation in the country on blood alcohol driving limits, there have been fewer traffic deaths overall in the state and lower driver alcohol involvement, a federal study found. A law that lowered the state’s legal blood alcohol concentration limit to .05 from .08, the […]

Tim Drivas Photography/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A South Korean diplomat was punched in the face in New York City on Wednesday night during what police described as an “unprovoked” attack. Officers responded to a 911 call about an assault in the area of Fifth Avenue and West 35th Street in Midtown Manhattan at around […]