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You’d like to be generous, but don’t have any money. You’d love to save the children in Mexico, build a school in India, drill water wells in Ethiopia, sponsor a widow in Sri Lanka or put shoes on all the orphans in Somalia. However, you’ve got $27 in the bank and the rent’s due next…

It seems mom wasn’t feeling all that great and let her 1-year-old and his 3-year-old brother out of her sight for a few seconds. She steps out of the bathroom and finds that the pair have discovered what fun a bag of flour can be. Particularly in the living room! Whee! To see more —…

We have to admit feeling a little guilty for finding this little guy’s condition humorous. However, it’s obvious that he has a loving dad. And, apparently, healthy teeth.

Talk show host Jimmy Kimmel admits he did not expect what happened when he challenged parents across America to tell their kids that Mom and Dad had eaten all their Halloween candy — and that none was left. The result is hilarious, but Kimmel admits that he really did not expect all the weeping. And…

You’ve heard about it — the Jeopardy contestant who made history a few days ago, wracking up $36,000 in a matter of seconds — taking advantage of back-to-back Daily Doubles. Now, ask yourself: do you have any idea what language is spoken in those little countries north of Brazil … or what Bronte sister wrote…

CBS News shares this extraordinary tale of a little girl who technically has been born twice. It seems a life-threatening tumor had to be removed … but she was still in her mommy’s tummy! Doctors carefully performed surgery — taking care not to completely remove her so that Mom’s uterus, in the doctor’s words, “wouldn’t…

So, what if you were meeting the Son of the Almighty Creator of the Universe for a mocha latte? What would you say to Him? In this satirical video, a “pilgrim” plunks an Indian headdress on the Messiah’s head and proceeds to annnoy Him with a lecture on the real meaning of Thanksgiving. From Beliefnet,…

Hunter Schulz, 10, and Carter Sharpe, 9, have been buddies since they were toddlers. So, it’s not surprising that the Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, fourth graders are rather nonchalant about an extraordinary event a while back. It seems Hunter saved Carter’s life. Hunter was plunking around on his mom’s piano. He can’t really play — just…

Hercules, a massive St. Bernard, was only hours away from being “put down” by the local dog pound. He had been found by hikers on Halloween. He was bloody, dehydrated and malnourished. He had been attacked by coyotes and was in such bad shape that the hikers initially didn’t think he was alive. For economic reasons — and…

 “Mom, if you love us and you hear us, move your eyes,” whispered 8-year-old Megan Smith. She’d been brought to Bethesda North Hospital in Cincinnati, Ohio, to say goodbye to her mother, Lori Smith, who the doctors said had suffered irreversible brain damage and would never awaken from a coma. With a heavy heart, dad Michael…

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