Dozens of America's wealthiest taxpayers -- including hedge fund legend Michael Steinhardt, super trial lawyer Guy Saperstein, and Ben Cohen of Ben & Jerry's fame -- have appealed to President Obama not to renew the Bush tax cuts for anyone earning more than $1 million a year.
Like countless small-business owners, Lola Gonzalez agonizingly resolved to trim her firm's nine-person staff when the economic recovery began to sputter last spring. Unlike other entrepreneurs, she picked an unlikely employee to lay off: herself.
A UK graduate student invented a solar-powered fridge that uses zero electricity, keeping food cold for families in Namibia, South Africa, Zambia, Botswana and Zimbabwe. It works through evaporation and can be used to keep perishable goods such as milk and meat cool for days.
Walking the red carpet at this year's CNN Hero awards tribute show on Thanksgiving night, will be movie stars like Halle Berry, Grammy winners like John Legend, and the famed Chilean miners as special guests. But the real stars of the night will be the top ten CNN citizen heros of 2010, one of whom will win the $100,000 cash prize for exemplary work on behalf of others.
This afternoon in the East Room of the White House, President Obama presented the Medal of Honor for conspicuous gallantry to Staff Sergeant Salvatore Giunta, U.S. Army -- the first living servicemember from the Iraq or Afghanistan wars to receive it, the highest award for military bravery. Sergeant Giunta, repeatedly and without hesitation, you charged forward through extreme enemy fire, embodying the warrior ethos that says, "I will never leave a fallen comrade." Your actions disrupted a devastating ambush before it could claim more lives. Your courage prevented the capture of an American soldier and brought that soldier back to his family.
A woman whose group has rescued more than 12,000 women and girls from sex slavery has been named the 2010 CNN Hero of the Year. She won the majority of two million votes cast, and CNN's Anderson Cooper revealed that result at the conclusion of the fourth annual CNN Heroes: An All-Star Tribute.
A Philadelphia man is leading the charge to reclaim an 86-acre city park that had become overgrown with weeds and trash while becoming a haven for crime. His love for the park stems from family outings as a child and led to a working army of volunteers.
Victor Perez launched an improbable car chase that resulted in the recovery of an 8-year-old girl abducted in Fresno, Calif. 'This guy is a true action hero,' said California's governor.
Sisters in Knoxville, Tenn. began a service more than a quarter century ago catering to people with the five H's, helping local residents who are homeless, hungry, helpless, hopeless or homebound.
Here are ten of the most innovative service programs, particularly noteworthy because their creators refused to be daunted by the breadth of the challenge, the absence of any model to guide them, or even a lack of expertise. The efforts of these everyday Americans are having an impact and millions are benefiting in the process.
Luck Mervil, a Haitian-born Canadian singer, has taken leave from a successful musical career to help the earthquake-displaced people in his homeland by spearheading the building of a village of homes that will withstand any natural disaster by using retired shipping containers.
The winner of Mitchum's Hardest Working Man in America contest was awarded $100,000 last month for his labor of love: hauling tires, trash -- and even rusty cars -- out of the nation's rivers on behalf of his non-profit conservation foundation.