A shooting last weekend at a children’s birthday party in California that left four dead was the 17th mass killing this year — the lowest number recorded since 2006, according to a database maintained ...

More than half of all mass shootings in the U.S. since 1966 have taken place in the last 20 years. From 2014 to 2022, the U.S. saw around 4,000 mass shootings, resulting in around 21,000 deaths or ...

Every mass shooting in the U.S. raises calls for better policies to prevent such tragedies. There's evidence suggesting that certain kinds of laws may reduce deaths from mass shootings, say scientists ...

Mass shootings in major metropolitan areas in the United States disproportionately affect Black people, and structural racism may play a role, according to a study published on Wednesday in the ...

Rep. Lori Trahan, D-Mass., said Saturday that she and her family had been targeted by a bomb threat and that local police are working with the U.S. Capitol Police to investigate the incident. “This ...

An abdominal mass is any abnormal growth that occurs within the abdomen. There are various causes of these masses, including cysts in the stomach or other organs, medical conditions, and cancer. A ...

New moves by Pope Francis mean changes for Catholics dedicated to the Traditional Latin Mass —and for the priests and bishops responsible for these communities. Even though these Catholics represent a ...

There are numerous possible causes of a lump or mass in the stomach. A person may be able to feel the mass, or it might only be detectable with imaging or other diagnostic tests. In this article, we ...

If you have any familiarity with the Salem Witch Trials, you already know something about mass hysteria, also known as mass psychogenic illness. Mass hysteria refers to an outbreak of unusual and ...

Catholics and even non-Catholics around the world have recently been imploring Pope Francis to refrain from implementing a rumored ban on the Tridentine Mass, also known as the Traditional Latin Mass ...

The Higgs field gives mass to elementary particles, but most of our mass comes from somewhere else. The story of particle mass starts right after the Big Bang. During the very first moments of the ...