CHICAGO (CBS) — A fun evening at Vegandale Festival in Grant Park turned into a stampede as people ran for their lives, the change coming in a matter of seconds. Social media videos of the stampede at ...

During a news conference at his Mar-a-Lago Club on Aug. 8, 2024, former U.S. President Donald Trump claimed the crowd during his speech at the Ellipse in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021, was larger than ...

In mid-June 2025, following the U.S. Army's 250th birthday celebration parade in Washington, D.C., claims (archived) circulated (archived) online about the size of the crowd at the event, which fell ...

A mighty cheer erupts from El Sadar — Pamplona's massive soccer stadium. Ossasuna, the local team, is winning. Iker Zuriguel estimates there are some 20,000 to 25,000 people inside the stadium ...

Crowd scenes present a particular technological challenge for AI image creation tools – especially video. (Smith's team hasn't publicly commented on – or responded to a request from NPR about – how ...

Forget about the economy, the war in Gaza, the perils of global warming. Never mind the crime issue or that favorite Trumpian hobbyhorse, immigration and the border. What really has the Republican ...

An Aug. 10 Facebook post (direct link, archive link) shares a photo of Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz exiting Air Force Two in front of a large crowd of supporters in ...

When people gather in large groups, they often act in ways that are different from how they would behave individually. Crowds can be manipulated in many ways. Mob behavior, swarm behavior, and herding ...

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A group of scientists studying the San Fermín festival in Pamplona, Spain, believe there’s a way to predict the motions of a large crowd. By Ari Daniel Every July, at the opening ceremony of the San ...