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(MEMPHIS) — Four children, including a 3-year-old and a 6-year-old, were shot Sunday night in Memphis, Tennessee, according to police. The shooting occurred around 9:54 p.m. at a home in the Hickory Hill area. Memphis Police and Fire Departments responded to the scene, where they found four juvenile victims. Two 15-year-old victims — one male […]
Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen; Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images (FREMONT, Neb.) — A man and two children were killed in a large explosion at a Nebraska plant, officials said Wednesday. The incident occurred midday Tuesday at Horizon Biofuels, a manufacturer of fuel pellets and animal bedding located in Fremont, located approximately 40 miles […]
Carl David Goette-Luciak/Miami Herald/Tribune News Service via Getty Images (MIAMI BEACH, Fla.) — Two children participating in a youth sailing program are dead after a barge struck their sailboat in Miami Beach Monday, officials said. The sailboat capsized in Biscayne Bay, between Monument Island and Hibiscus Island, according to the Miami Beach Police Department. All […]
STOCK PHOTO/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — More than 14 million children around the world have not received a single dose of any vaccine, according to new data from the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF. This is 4 million more children than the 2024 target set by the WHO and 1.4 million more children than in […]
Photo by Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Images (Ukraine) — About 70% of children in Ukraine — roughly 3.5 million — do not have access to basic goods and services, such as adequate food or shelter, more than three years into the country’s ongoing war with Russia, according to new data published Thursday from UNICEF. This is a […]
Oliver Helbig/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Five people, including two children, were killed Sunday in a plane crash in upstate New York, police said. The victims were family members from Georgia. They were headed back to Atlanta after a trip to Cooperstown, New York, for a baseball tournament, police said. The victims were Roger Beggs, […]
ABC News/ WKBW (BUFFALO, N.Y.) — A 3-year-old boy was killed and his 7-year-old sister was injured after being hit by gunfire while at a family gathering in Buffalo, New York, officials said. Police who responded to the Friday night incident rushed the boy to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead. His sister suffered […]
Sasi Ponchaisang / EyeEm/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Diagnoses of children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) have surged in the United States over the last several years, according to a new study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The study, which examined data from more than 45,000 parent responses to the 2022 National Survey […]
Palestine Children’s Relief Fund (NEW YORK) — Four Palestinian children who were injured or fell ill amid the ongoing Israel-Hamas war have arrived in the United States to receive medical treatment, according to an aid organization. The children, three boys and one girl between ages 3 and 11, were evacuated to Egypt and then flown […]
Mostafa Alkharouf/Anadolu via Getty Images (GAZA) — Five children were allegedly killed in the Gaza Strip by a humanitarian aid airdrop from an unidentified foreign country on Friday, the Hamas-run Gaza Ministry of Health said. Several Palestinian civilians were also injured in the airdrop, according to the Government Media Office in Gaza, which called the […]
