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Need an Escape? Watch This $2 Million McLaren Supercar Drag Race an F-35 Fighter Jet
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.
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Sean ‘Diddy' Combs Released a Free Meditation to Help You Sleep
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.
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This Amsterdam Restaurant Set Up Individual Greenhouses to Keep Diners Apart—Take a Look Inside
In Amsterdam, one restaurant will allow visitors to eat inside individual greenhouses as a way to implement social distancing measures during the coronavirus pandemic.
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Billionaire Spanx Founder Loans Out Her Wedding Dress to Strangers—Including Brides Affected by the 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.
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Delivering Donated Meals to Coronavirus Workers Is Helping Keep These Restaurants in Business
“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.
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The Coronavirus Pandemic Is Changing the Way People Celebrate Major Events and Holidays—Here's How They're Adapting
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.
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These Golden Retriever ‘Brew Dogs' Help Deliver Beer During Social Distancing—Take a Look
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.
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MIT Engineers Designed an Affordable, Reusable Face Mask That's as Effective as an N95 — Take a Look
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.
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How ‘the Lasagna Guys' Collected $1.26 Million in Donations to Feed New York City's Hospital Workers
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.
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Philadelphia Student Raises $30K for Charity by Selling Pizza From 2nd Story Window
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.
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10 Positive Takeaways From 2020 as the Year Draws to a Close
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.
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‘Miracle on 73rd Street': NYC Firefighters Help Santa Visit Sick Children
This year, for the first time, Santa Claus wasn’t going able to stop by and see the kids at the Ronald McDonald House on the Upper East Side.
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Lasagna Love: Volunteers Needed in CT
If the old saying is true that cooking is love, then lasagna is a nice warm hug. Now a growing volunteer movement is connecting communities during the COVID-19 pandemic through this classic comfort food.
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You Can Have It All — Just Not All at Once, Says First Woman to Head Major Wall Street Bank
She’s about to take the reins of one Wall Street’s largest banks, and Jane Fraser has advice for others: “You can have it all, but don’t expect to have it at exactly the same time.”
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Video Shows Moment NJ Police Officer Rescued Man From Burning Van After Crash
A rookie cop in New Jersey cop a real test in training over the weekend thanks to a trial by fire — literally
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Utah Man Plays Violin for His ICU Caretakers
A Utah man battling coronavirus was unable to thank his caretakers because he was intubated, but found another way to express his deep gratitude.
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Even at 80, One NJ Hospital Worker Hasn't Missed A Day of Work Amid COVID Pandemic
Even amid the COVID-19 pandemic, when the virus was infecting many hospital workers who were treating patients, 80-year-old Julia Kinsey still went to work every day at St. Peter’s University Hospital — as she has for most of the past 60 years.
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Sydney's Taronga Zoo Rehabilitates Orphaned Echidna Puggle
The Taronga Zoo in Sydney, Australia, is treating an orphaned short-beaked echidna after it fell out of a tree onto a balcony below.
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Seasoned Treasure Hunter Reunites Couple With Wedding Ring Lost on CT Beach
A couple celebrating their eighth anniversary never thought they would find the bride’s wedding ring lost to the sands of a Westport beach. It was one week ago that lifestyle blogger Julia Dzafic lost her ring at Old Mill Beach after removing it to apply sunscreen. Adding to the pain, the loss of the ring coincided with her eighth...
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Nigerian Dancer, 11, in Viral Video Receives Scholarship From NYC Ballet Company
An 11-year-old boy’s dance in the rain in Lagos, Nigeria, not only touched the hearts of millions who saw his passion but it is helping make his dream come true. Those who saw Anthony Madu’s leaped and pirouetted without shoes on the rain-soaked street in a video posted by his dance teacher were in awe of his talent —...