A day before making his Olympic debut, 22-year-old free-skier Gus Kenworthy found some stray puppies in the Russian city of Sochi and fell in love during his playing with them. He's vowed to help them.
A 6-year-old Afghan boy born with his bladder outside his body has been reunited with the U.S. soldier who arranged for his rare operation in a New Jersey hospital. When Army Maj. Glenn Battschinger came upon the boy while on foot patrol in Afghanistan, he pitied the frail child who had to constantly hold his leaking bladder in his hand, and resolved to do something
It took more than 60 years, but an Army chaplain who died as a prisoner during the Korean War will be awarded the Medal of Honor by President Obama on Thursday. Capt. Emil Kapaun, who was a Catholic priest serving with the 3rd Battalion, will be honored for extraordinary heroism for bravery and service to others -- both in battle and after his capture by enemy troops in November 1950.
Air Force officer James Mitchell, overwhelmed by the hardship and destruction he witnessed in Vietnam, decided to visit the Sacred Heart Orphanage. When baby #889 was placed in his arms, he knew it was meant to be. 19 Years after her adoption from the Da Nang orphanage, Kimberly Mitchell chose a career in the Navy to fulfill her fathers wish.
An 8-year-old Texas boy had been saving for months to buy a new PlayStation 4, but after seeing the TV news report of a devastating fire where a mother and child were killed, he changed his mind.
In the scrub-brush desert town of Queen Creek, Ariz., high school bullies were throwing trash at sophomore Chy Johnson. Calling her stupid. Pushing her in the halls. Chy's mother wanted justice, so she called the captain of the football team, who knew the girl.
There is a school at one Virginia county juvenile detention center where troubled youths work toward high school diplomas and credit their teachers with saving their lives from ruin. The jail's educational program is a little-known entity within Fairfax County Public Schools that offers the students hope for better days ahead.
When she was 15, Sarah Cronk set up her school's first inclusive cheerleading squad at Pleasant Valley High School in Bettendorf, Iowa. Now, at 18 she is the founder of The Sparkle Effect, which helps schools around the country to include boys and first with disabilities in the dance teams and cheerleading squads. While Pleasant Valley's program is now in its 6th season and includes 21 students, Sarah's national program has raised more than $150,000 and generated 65 inclusive squads across the country.
After NBC news profiled a family about to lose their home, after both parents lost their jobs, another American family was moved to help. As a successful businessman, John Vann developed a six-point plan to help the struggling Hidalgo family, beginning with a pledge of $2,000 every month for two years to help them get back on their feet.
Jean Dennis is a nurse near Ithaca, New York, who helps care for Brent Larsen during his trials with Muscular Dystrophy and life on a ventilator.
Neil Young was honored Friday in Los Angeles as the 2010 Person of the Year by MusiCares, an organization that provides emergency care and financial assistance to musicians in need.
Part of the ThinkMTV series entitled True Life, I Have Gay Parents follows three teens through their every day lives in a riveting look at what it means to have gay parents.
A mosque in Ontario is assisting a nearby Catholic church after a traumatic string of vandalism left the Christians with a $10,000 bill for damages.
As Europeans continue to open their hearts and doors to refugees pouring into the EU, the prime minister has stepped up to offer his own home as shelter.
Watch fireman Cory Kalanick rescue an unconscious kitten from a burning house filled with smoke and nurse the tiny animal back to life. The bird's-eye video was shot on the HD HERO3 and posted on YouTube by the GoPro camera company.
A San Diego woman first formed a bond with a Chinese goose at Miramar Lake 20 years ago. After a 10-year break, she went back to the lake to see if he was still there. As soon as she pulled up in the car she said she recognized 'Blanco'. She got out of the car and said, Blanco? His telescoping neck shot up in the air and it was like they'd never been apart.
Israel made a decision to open the main cargo crossing to the Gaza strip for the first time in several months out of humanitarian concerns: "Our war is against terror, not against the residents of the Strip."
The Olive Co-operative has launched an initiative that offers the public an opportunity to sponsor the planting of olive trees in Palestine. The new trees will offset the destruction wrought by years of conflict in the area when 500,000 olive trees have been destroyed
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