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Basketball Hall of Famer Shaquille O’Neal recently offered refreshing takes on reality over the year and had another bit of wisdom on social media. The former Los Angeles Laker took to X and discussed what he’s realized more as he’s gotten older, with the post receiving over three million impressions. He wrote, “The older you…

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Kayleigh Williamson, 33, made history as the first woman with Down syndrome to finish the New York City Marathon. Thousands of spectators cheered for Kayleigh as she crossed the finish line after her 10 hour journey. Her mother, Sandy, ran alongside her daughter the entire time, describing the experience as “emotional.” “New York changed the…

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Pro-surfer Bethany Hamilton recently visited the place where a shark attacked her and took her left arm 20 years ago. She captioned the three photos on Instagram, “20 years later, this was the location of my shark incident as a 13-year-old girl.” Her story was portrayed in the film “Soul Surfer.” In the first, 13-year-old…

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Actor Matt Damon recently joined the fight to save a historic 12-member church on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City from being sold to developers who want to destroy it to make way for a $30 million luxury condominium. Damon’s effort to save the West Park Presbyterian Church, located at 165…

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A Maryland woman’s response to a TikTok prompt has gone viral after she shared how she chose to keep her baby after becoming pregnant after being sexually assaulted. Today, Angela Harders is a homeschool advocate and founder of PAX ministries, a ministry that seeks to “provide education, information, and inspiration for physical, mental, emotional, relational,…

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Stacy Wakefield, the wife of Boston Red Sox great Tim Wakefield, who passed away at 57, shared a message she found from her husband. Wakefield, who was suffering from brain cancer, had words of wisdom in a note that his wife shared with Boston Bruins legend Bobby Orr. He posted the message on his X…

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Kyndra Smith was preparing to board her flight when she got a phone call delivering heartbreaking news. As she broke down in the middle of the airport, God sent two strangers to comfort her. Social media is typically a place where kindness, civility, and common courtesy go out of the window. Not only that, but…

Dramatic bodycam footage showing a New York Police Department officer pleading with a man not to commit suicide displays the emotional toll officers typically face in the field. NYPD Officer Carl Fayette’s body camera captured his attempts with fellow Officer Eleodoro Mata to talk a man off the ledge literally. NYPD 26tth Precinct wrote in…

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While Adele was in the middle of singing her song “When We Were Young,” during her Las Vegas show, she stopped the performance after she recognized the doctor who delivered her 10-year-old son in the crowd. While she was walking through the aisles of the concert hall in Ceasar’s palace, the singer noticed a familiar…

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A bus driver from the Dallas-Fort Worth area is receiving praise after performing the Heimlich maneuver on a choking first grader. Dallas Independent School District (ISD) bus driver Raquel Radford Baker was letting students off at school last month when 7-year-old Preston came up to her to tell her there was a penny in his…
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