If there’s one thing that all Americans can agree upon, it’s that Thanksgiving is made for inaction. You spend all of your time leading up to Thursday afternoon finishing up work, navigating packed ...

A man who climbed over 18 feet to enter a lion's enclosure in a Brazilian zoo was fatally attacked in front of horrified visitors. Gerson de Melo Machado, 19, was mauled to death after he invaded a ...

Around 20,000 people gathered to watch the execution, the largest crowd for a hanging in early American history. The crime? Sedition. Thomas Hickey, a member of George Washington’s personal guard, was ...

A troubled teenager who dreamed of becoming a lion tamer was mauled to death in front of horrified zoo-goers after climbing a 20-foot fence to get into the big cats’ enclosure. Gerson de Melo Machado, ...

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“I am shattered in a way I didn't know a human being could break," the mother of Madison Riley Hull said A 23-year-old woman set to graduate college in six months was mauled to death by three dogs ...

A former World Trade Center worker who “narrowly escaped” the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks has been beaten to death by three teens — one of whom was just 12 at ...

A Brazilian teenager was mauled by a lioness in full view of zoo visitors on Sunday, after scaling a six-meter wall and safety fencing and shimmying down a tree into the enclosure, authorities said.

Gerson de Melo Machado was fatally attacked in Brazil on Sunday, Nov. 30 Latoya Gayle joined PEOPLE as an Associate Editor in 2024. Her work has previously appeared in The U.S. Sun, National World, ...

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