A teen wrestling champion was video-chatting with her sister about Halloween costumes minutes before she was shot and killed while parked in her car outside her Chicago home on Saturday night.

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Hours later, her family called for justice as gun violence continues to take a devastating toll on the city.

Chicago police said that 18-year-old Melissa de la Garza, who had recently graduated high school and was headed to college at the prestigious Ar...

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An Arkansas man who evaded law enforcement authorities for more than a year before being caught was sentenced to two life sentences on Monday after pleading guilty to killing his girlfriend and her 4-year-old son in June 2019.

Appearing in Ouachita District Court, Jory John Worthen, 26, pleaded guilty to two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of 20-y...

Playing through the greenery and litter of a mini forest's undergrowth for just one month may be enough to change a child's immune system, according to an experiment in Finland. 

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When daycare workers rolled out a lawn, planted forest undergrowth (such as dwarf heather and blueberries), and allowed children to care for crops in planter boxes, the diversity of microbes in the guts and on the skin of young kids appeared healthier in a very short space of time. 

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Australia has lost about 30% of its koalas over the past three years, with the marsupials hit by drought, bushfires and developers cutting down trees, the Australian Koala Foundation said on Tuesday.

© Lisa Maree Williams/Getty Images A koala affected by the Australia's wildfires last year is released back into native bushland following treatment at the Kangaroo Island Wildlife Park in Parndana.

The independent non-profit group estimated the koala population has dropped to less than 58,000 thi...

Mars is the solar system’s near-miss world. Earth may have gotten everything right when it came to sustaining life—atmosphere, water, proximity to the sun. Mercury, Venus and the outer planets, with their extreme temperatures and inhospitable chemistry, may have gotten everything wrong. Mars, on the other hand, came so close, yet fell short.

© NASA/JPL-Caltech This image was captured while NASA's Perseverance rover drove on Mars for the first time on March 4, 2021.

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An 18-year-old boxer is dead after she was knocked unconscious during a match this weekend at IGA Stadium in Montreal.

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Jeanette Zacarias Zapata sustained injuries to her brain while fighting Canada's Marie-Pier Houle on Saturday night, according to the Associated Press. Footage from the match showed the 18-year-old Mexican boxer being hit with a flurry of punches near the end of the fourth round, and Zapata appeared to convulse after 31-y...

The rapper reportedly ran after the shooting and police insist Money Mitch's gunshot wound was self-inflicted. Lil Baby paid tribute.

Mysonne called out Wack 100 for being a "BIG BAD Blood" who had a three-hour interview "with the rat that told on the Bloods."