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10 people were murdered on Saturday when a racially motivated gunman targeted Black customers and employees at the Tops Friendly Markets grocery store in Buffalo, N.Y.

Identical twin sisters Jill Justiniani and Erin Cheplak both gave birth to sons on May 5

Harmony Montgomery vanished in 2019, but it took two years until she was reported missing

Samantha Cercena, 22, left school due to a disorder called post-COVID viral gastroparesis. When a local hospital heard, they offered to hold a spot for her in their prestigious training program

Anthony Schmidt, 14, has over 500,000 TikTok followers intrigued by his optical skills

Sherri Papini admitted her 2016 account of being kidnapped was all a lie

Ricky Rodriguez, 12, rallied San Antonio lawmakers to create Jackson Mohr Day on April 22

"I'm deeply honored to be able to serve my country and to do it in such a way that we can have a deep impact," she tells PEOPLE

'I want to know that I can make other children's lives better by doing a little bit of something in my own life,' says Gabriel Clark of Cumbria, England

Ricky Rodriguez, 12, rallied San Antonio lawmakers to create Jackson Mohr Day on April 22

"I'm deeply honored to be able to serve my country and to do it in such a way that we can have a deep impact," she tells PEOPLE

'I want to know that I can make other children's lives better by doing a little bit of something in my own life,' says Gabriel Clark of Cumbria, England

Charges against Harmony's dad and stepmom have continued to mount since police reported last December that the girl had not been seen since October 2019

California mother Sherri Papini, now 39, is charged with lying to a federal officer and mail fraud for staging her own kidnapping in 2016

"We have food. We have a place to stay. We hope everything will be fine," one mom-of-three says

"Citizens should be aware that Russia has stated that it intends to treat foreign fighters in Ukraine as 'mercenaries,' " a government official warned in March — even so, said one vet, "I am ready to ship out"

Identical twins Dr. Delana Wardlaw and Dr. Elana McDonald have been working tirelessly since the COVID-19 pandemic began to give back and keep their community healthy. For PEOPLE's Why I'm Getting Vaccinated Series, they share their personal experience

PEOPLE's "Why I'm Getting Vaccinated" campaign hopes to fight vaccine misinformation and encourage people to get the shot as part of the battle against COVID-19. Noteworthy names and everyday people alike will share their powerful, personal reasons for getting vaccinated.

"She's of a mind that we all have a lot of work to do, and I don't think she'd want a lot of fuss made over her," Melanne Verveer tells PEOPLE

Despite Madeleine Albright's busy schedule, her daughter tells PEOPLE, "she constantly called us, she made it very clear if we ever needed to get her we could get her at any time"

Boris Romantschenko lived through four Nazi death camps. He was killed Friday by a Russian strike on his apartment building in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv

More than 25,000 hosts have used the site, created in just three days: "People from all over the world, every walk of life, are trying to help," says co-developer Marco Burstein

U.S. composer and pianist Calvin Jones was living in the Ukraine capital of Kyiv before he fled Russia's attack: "Music brings us together," he says

Most of the Ukrainian Paralympic athletes returned to Ukraine this week by bus from Poland — and with uncertain futures

Ukraine's wartime leader is "the real deal," experts say, "and his defiance and fighting spirit are inspiring." As one close friend tells PEOPLE, "He is monumental in character"

In PEOPLE's latest issue, family members speak out about the allegations of Papini staging her own kidnapping

Anastasiia Yalanskaya, 26, had reportedly remained in the embattled Ukrainian capital, under Russian fire, to help others

Bronia Brandman, 90, survived the Auschwitz concentration camp, where most of her family was murdered. She first shared her experience a half-century later