Ames kids raise thousands for Shop with a Cop after their lemonade st...

Nine-year-old twins Katelyn and Elias Smidt had been asking to open a lemonade stand all summer long, their mother Ka...

Shootings and murders are down in Chester as new community-driven pro...

Unlike Philadelphia, Chester has seen a marked decrease in gun violence this year. Part of that, prosecutors believe,...

Walmart Makes College Tuition-Free For Employees

Tuition-free college. No student loans.

Friendly persuasion: Religious push raises COVID-19 vaccine acceptanc...

America’s religious communities have played an important role in upping acceptance of vaccines designed to thwart COV...

Mental Health Response Teams Yield Better Outcomes Than Police In NYC...

A New York City pilot program dispatches mental health and medical care instead of police to some 911 calls. Early da...

Google Maps can now show New Yorkers how busy individual subway cars ...

Google Maps is trialling a new feature in New York and Sydney which tells users which train carriages are the busiest.

Taiwan bumps BioNTech vaccine order to 15 million with Buddhist donation

A major Taiwanese Buddhist group said on Wednesday (Jul 21) it had signed a deal to buy 5 million doses of BioNTech's...

California will begin permanently offering free meals to all public s...

California will permanently begin providing free school meals for students this fall in a move that many advocates ar...

7-year-old cancer survivor donates thousands of toys to hospital

Tripp Hughes just completed chemotherapy and wanted to show his gratitude.

Hundreds offer to donate cars to South Carolina mechanic who fixes th...

"Whatever glowing feeling is inside me, it just transferred from that TV screen and went inside them," he said.

Jeff Bezos Gifts Historic $200 Million to the Smithsonian

The Amazon founder's gift—the largest since the Institution was created in 1846—will support the Air and Space Museum...

Chinese parents reunite with son 24 years after his abduction outside...

Since 1997, Guo Gangtang has traveled over 311,000 miles on his motorbike alone in search of his abducted son.