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Twenty-three years ago, a firefighter rushed into a burning home in Poughkeepsie with two young brothers inside. One of them died in the fire, but the other, a 3-year-old, was rescued, and over the weekend, he reunited for the first time with the man who saved him.

After a year of physical distancing, a New York City grandmother finally received a prescription she had been waiting for: a hug.

A woman unexpectedly reunited with her lost wallet has met the once anonymous Good Samaritan who went out of his way to deliver it to her home

Christine Pathak has marked every milestone in a hospital — most of them inside St. Mary’s in Queens. Everything from trick-or-treating to Thanksgiving to Christmas to birthdays were celebrated at the hospital. That all changed Friday. It was during her time hospitalized, when there were moments that standing seemed impossible for the now 2-and-a-half-year-old. The fact that she walked through…

A good Samaritan is being praised for his kind-hearted act of anonymously returning a Florida woman’s lost wallet

A good Samaritan is being praised for his kind-hearted act of anonymously returning a Florida woman’s lost wallet.

One woman’s search for an adorable toddler who was sitting in the stands at the Super Bowl on Sunday as a cardboard cutout is over. Tampa Bay resident Caitlin Katz reunited 18-month-old Jet and his family with his cutout over Zoom on Wednesday after she took to social media in search of the boy and other owners of the...

It was an emotional reunion as 6-year-old German shepherd Sadie bounded into the lap of Brian Myers as he exited his rehab facility, weeks after helping save his life during a medical episode in the middle of the night

Denver-based Prodigy Coffeehouse has a mission to help young adults who have not found success in traditional school or work structures

What happens when one of the world’s fastest supercars takes on an $80 million fighter jet in a drag race? The ‘Top Gear’ YouTube channel decided to find out.

Sean “Diddy” Combs released a guided meditation on the audiobook site, Audible, that’s meant to help you relax before bed and fight fatigue. Here’s how to start meditating today.

In Amsterdam, one restaurant will allow visitors to eat inside individual greenhouses as a way to implement social distancing measures during the coronavirus pandemic.

Sara Blakely, founder and CEO of Spanx, recently made an offer on Instagram: Brides who postponed their wedding due to COVID-19 can borrow her dress. And it’s not the first time she’s done it.

“It came full circle. I could feed people. People are donating. They’re able to sponsor a bowl. That then brings my staff back in to work, and now people have jobs. They feel hope,” chef Joseph “JJ” Johnson, owner of FieldTrip in Harlem, New York City, tells CNBC Make It.

Across the country, Covid-19 is affecting the way people are celebrating events and holidays. Here’s how they’re “getting together” and following traditions over long distances.

Buddy and Barley, aka “The Brew Dogs,” accompany their humans on beer deliveries, helping Six Harbors Brewing Company in Huntington, New York stay afloat during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Researchers at MIT and Brigham and Women’s Hospital have a created a new type of face mask that could be a game-changer for healthcare workers. The new design is reusable, and can easily be sterilized. Plus, in tests, it performed as well as the standard N95 respirators. Take a look at the innovations.

Restaurateur Luca Di Pietro and his team have become known as the “lasagna guys” among New York City’s frontline workers. That’s because Di Pietro has helped deliver more than 64,000 meals to healthcare workers amid the Covid-19 pandemic.

A grad student in Philadelphia, Pa., has raised $30,000 to help combat hunger in the area by baking pizzas and “dropping” them out of his second-story window.

As 2020 draws to a close, CNBC Make It looks at some of the major breakthroughs achieved this year and the positive shifts they foretell for 2021 and beyond.