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Tim McGraw will be saluting veterans in a big way while on tour this summer. The country music superstar is giving away 25 mortgage-free houses — one for each stop on his upcoming "Brothers of the Sun" tour — to wounded or needy service members.
New York Universtiy alum Alec Baldwin, whose home in the Lower Manhattan neighborhood also lost power on Tuesday, walked room-to-room lifting the spirits of students who had been evacuated from their dorms earlier that day. The 30 Rock star also had been quietly helping his neighbors, like the elderly in his building who couldn't use the stairs.
The Atlantic reported on this Twitter exchange between Star Trek star, William Shatner, and a Canadian astronaut who is currently serving on the International Space Station…
It was a star-studded night. After recording her new song at Rotation Records, Amy Hosmer left the studio. She was greeted by about 75 enthusiastic fans. She smiled shyly and thanked everyone for coming. Not what we'd expect from a rock star. But Amy isn't a typical star.
Elton John and Yamaha are teaming up taking piano technology to a new level next week, performing a concert that will reproduce on 20 different pianos LIVE around the world. John will play at Disneyland's Hyperion Theater in Anaheim, Calif., on Jan. 25 with a 70-piece orchestra. The performance — note for note and in real time — will be reproduced through a Yamaha DisklavierTV piano and RemoteLive technology
George Clooney has once again shown himself to be the perfect gentleman. Fearing that he and his party had been too loud while dining at the Grill Royal restaurant in Berlin, the actor picked up the $120 tab for a nearby table.
I knew something had to be done, said Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice, whose foundation was adrift without a focus. The final straw came on Easter Sunday when a 15-year-old girl in nearby Maryland took her own life after months of cyber-bullying. Thus began this 5-foot-8 running back's pro-kindness crusade.
After a three-year battle with cancer, Joshua Jones may be in his final days. A group of family and friends pooled their money to buy four front-row seats so he could see his beloved Dodgers one last time. Dodger player Matt Kemp had promised to sign an autograph after the game, but instead was moved to do more, including giving the shirt off his back -- and his shoes.
A 'hail mary' pass from professional basketball arenas to the Oklahoma tornado victims has resulted in four million-dollar donations, beginning with Kevin Durant, a player with the Oklahoma City Thunder, who donated $1 million to Red Cross relief efforts through his foundation.
A Buffalo, New York bus driver who talked a depressed woman off of a bridge is scheduled to appear on celebrity chef Rachael Ray's Thanks for Giving episode airing Monday in the US. The show says Darnell Barton's story is one of four to be highlighted in the show, which features an audience full of people who've been hailed as heroes.
Independent bookstores, with their paper-thin profit margins and competition from Amazon, have found a sugar daddy in the person of famous author, James Patterson. The best-selling author has started a program to give away $1 million of his personal fortune to dozens of bookstores.
Comedic actress Amy Poehler launched Smart Girls, an online community which is thriving by encouraging every girl to 'change the world by being yourself.'
Aelita Andre is a Russian abstract painter who has already been compared to Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dali, and Jackson Pollack -- and she is just four years old. Her parents both paint as a hobby and from the start gave her all the canvas and tubes she needed to express to her heart's content.
Bullied every day for years because of his lisp, Josh moved to London, Ontario, in 2011. Determined not to be put in a box by his new classmates, the remarkable young man dramatically changed the trajectory of his life with one small idea: he would hold open the door at school each day. He held the door open for hundreds of teenagers that first morning - and every morning since. At first they didn't know what to make of the stranger, but then, something happened.
A business owner realized, It's time to give back, after years of seeing needy people selling their stuff in his jewelry-exchange business. Rankin Paynter was shopping at a Kmart that was closing its doors in Winchester, Kentucky and decided on-the-spot to buy the rest of its contents and give it away to charity.
A terrified kitten has been rescued on Dublin's busy M50 thanks to the police (gardaí) and a driver for the Dublin Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. The four month old kitten was spotted by passing motorists shuddering and alone as cars sped by within several feet.
AAA is about to roll out the nation's first fleet of mobile electric-vehicle quick chargers. The trucks are poised to hit the road in Portland, Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Knoxville and Tampa, Florida.
Researchers at the University of British Columbia say they've found a way around the nuisance and potential danger of repeatedly having to plug in an electric car to get it moving again. The university's physics department says it has developed a way to wirelessly recharge the vehicle.
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