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The Rutledge family of Simsbury, Conn., decided to make a sign for their front yard to thank essential workers during the pandemic – then the requests from neighbors started rolling in. The family of five has now made almost 1,000 signs and raised $11,000 in donations to help make PPE for nearby medical facilities.

Their city is under siege, their age group at particular risk and their lives increasingly isolated — but every Monday morning, one group of older New Yorkers is finding plenty to laugh about

Self-isolating Americans are bringing glimpses of normalcy, decency and solidarity to an uncertain world.

A baby girl in New York City was born three months premature but the miracle of her birth may have saved the life of her mother — who was struggling to fight COVID-19. Tasnim Shaheen’s prognosis was grim when she was admitted to Jamaica Hospital in Queens on March 24 after she contracted the novel coronavirus, said OBGYN Dr. Kavitha…

The Kansas farmer who sent a spare N95 mask to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo became a college graduate after having dropped out to take care of his mother over five decades ago. Kansas State University and Gov. Laura Kelly awarded Dennis Ruhnke with an honorary degree in agriculture on Tuesday. Ruhnke was going to be a first-generation college graduate…

Self-isolating Americans are bringing glimpses of normalcy, decency and solidarity to an uncertain world.

While a lot has been taken away from the class of 2020, learning where they have been accepted to go to college remains a thrill — especially for twin sisters Nicole and Jessica. The Alexander sisters earned acceptance letters from five Ivy League schools: U-Penn, Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Dartmouth. “Coming from Clifton, we’re not producing people going to Ivy…

Self-isolating Americans are bringing glimpses of normalcy to a locked-down world. In this week’s edition: Life finds a way.

The grandson of famed sportscaster Howard Cosell has recorded nearly 600 introductions since he began a month ago, and he recently noticed the calls had been coming from a certain group of people

Since March 17th, a daily series called “One Good Thing” reflects the unheralded sacrifices everyday people make to benefit others that might go unnoticed, but deserve to be told.

Self-isolating Americans are bringing glimpses of normalcy to a locked-down world. In this week’s edition: hope on a bus, love in a bucket truck, kindness at the supermarket and music in the air

Michael Che says he will pay rent for all the residents at a New York City Housing Authority building where his grandmother once lived to honor her after she passed away from coronavirus complications. The “Saturday Night Live” comedian made the announcement in an Instagram post on Wednesday, saying “its crazy to me that residents of public housing are still…

A South Florida mother is cheering on a FedEx delivery driver who cleaned and sanitized a delivery box to help protect her immunocompromised daughter against the novel coronavirus.

In recent days, workers at New Orleans’ Ochsner Medical Center who take the familiar stroll from the parking lot to the main entrance have been greeted with expressions of gratitude from an unnamed artist, sketched out in chalk on the sidewalk

The COVID-19 pandemic has thrown daily life across the U.S. into chaos. Families suddenly losing loved ones cannot come together to mourn. Health care professionals are putting their lives at risk to treat the untreatable. And the leaders to whom we turn in times of crisis don’t have all the answers. One bit of good news is there is...

Kids around the country are using chalk to spread positive messages on the sidewalk.

As more and more people survive the new coronavirus, hospitals want them to line up to donate some blood

A man in the UK is dressing up as Spider-Man to cheer up kids stuck inside during the coronavirus pandemic.

A father in South Dakota shared a heartwarming photo of his 6th-grade daughter getting help from her math teacher, Chris Waba. In the snapshot, the middle schooler could be seen holding up a possible notebook, while Waba drew math equations on a whiteboard outside.