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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.

The Taronga Zoo in Sydney, Australia, is treating an orphaned short-beaked echidna after it fell out of a tree onto a balcony below.

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...

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 —...

Love is strange, especially in the middle of a pandemic, but a kind stranger was able to give a New York City newlywed a photograph to remember their untypical special day. Nevona Friedman was on a bike ride on the Brooklyn Bridge over the weekend when she took photos of a couple getting married under the sunset. But she had…

A man known as “Miracle Larry” finally walked out of his Manhattan hospital on Wednesday, 128 days after he first was admitted with COVID-19

The life of a newborn baby girl was saved by a pair of New Jersey Transit officers who rushed to perform CPR,with the dramatic events captured on body cam

We know you’ve been hearing a lot about the coronavirus lately so we wanted to give you a much needed break while you’re social distancing. Today’s special report features some of the fluffiest, cutest and least coordinated babies of the animal kingdom.

More than three months without being able to open nearly led to the Greenwich Village symbol of pride closing its doors for good, so the owners put out a plea for help — and got plenty of responses

The Rutledge family of Simsbury, Conn., decided to make a sign for their front yard to thank essential workers during the pandemic – then the requests from neighbors started rolling in. The family of five has now made almost 1,000 signs and raised $11,000 in donations to help make PPE for nearby medical facilities.

Their city is under siege, their age group at particular risk and their lives increasingly isolated — but every Monday morning, one group of older New Yorkers is finding plenty to laugh about

Self-isolating Americans are bringing glimpses of normalcy, decency and solidarity to an uncertain world.

A baby girl in New York City was born three months premature but the miracle of her birth may have saved the life of her mother — who was struggling to fight COVID-19. Tasnim Shaheen’s prognosis was grim when she was admitted to Jamaica Hospital in Queens on March 24 after she contracted the novel coronavirus, said OBGYN Dr. Kavitha…

After spending nearly a month at a hospital, two weeks of that in a coma, a New Jersey father was released from the hospital this week in what the doctors are calling a miracle case

The Kansas farmer who sent a spare N95 mask to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo became a college graduate after having dropped out to take care of his mother over five decades ago. Kansas State University and Gov. Laura Kelly awarded Dennis Ruhnke with an honorary degree in agriculture on Tuesday. Ruhnke was going to be a first-generation college graduate…

A college student started making masks from donated scraps of hospital material that she folded and sewed — and the person who donated the material is the same doctor who delivered her 20 years ago

Self-isolating Americans are bringing glimpses of normalcy, decency and solidarity to an uncertain world.

While a lot has been taken away from the class of 2020, learning where they have been accepted to go to college remains a thrill — especially for twin sisters Nicole and Jessica. The Alexander sisters earned acceptance letters from five Ivy League schools: U-Penn, Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Dartmouth. “Coming from Clifton, we’re not producing people going to Ivy…

The director of an organization that helps find foster homes for dogs in shelters said last year at this time, the organization had applications from about 140 people per month — it’s now around 3,000

Self-isolating Americans are bringing glimpses of normalcy to a locked-down world. In this week’s edition: Life finds a way.