Pickles the cat isn’t fat, he’s just big-boned. The Boston-based rescue feline weighs in at a whopping 21 pounds and is 3 feet long. Pickles was even advertised as “Catasaurus Rex” on the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals website. Thankfully, Andrew Milicia and girlfriend Emily Zarvos met Pickles last month – and they formed […]

With the NFL draft a few months away, we may see the first openly gay player in the history of the league...

Behind all of the negativity in the world, there are actually a lot of random acts of kindness. In Texas, a father of one of the students who attends the elementary school has decided to pay off the school’s entire lunch debt. According to KSDK, Kenny Thompson was inspired by the story of the Utah […]

A baby born with little blood in her body has survived in Florida. Orange County resident Jennifer Juarez gave birth to Hope, who appeared to be ghost white due to a rare condition called fetal-maternal hemorrhage, back in December 2013. After losing 80 percent of her blood during an emergency C-section, Hope was rushed into surgery and […]

Remember the inspirational letter two hearing-impaired girls wrote to Seattle Seahawks fullback Derrick Coleman (who also happens to be hearing-impaired)? Well, in addition to writing twin nine-year-old sisters Riley and Erin Kovalcik this super sweet note back, he gave his two biggest fans the surprise of their life. During their appearance on Good Morning America, Coleman […]

She’s back and cuter than ever! The multiracial child who made a splash last year (and apparently angered those not ready to see an interracial family on television) is back. Gracie appeared in a Cheerios commercial alongside an African-American father and a white mother in 2013 and now, she’s starring in a Cheerios Super Bowl […]

As Avonte Oquendo’s family laid him to rest this weekend, Sen. Charles Schumer (D.N.Y) proposed new legislation that will hopefully prevent a tragedy like Avonte’s from happening again. The new law, dubbed “Avonte” after the 14-year-old autistic boy who disappeared in New York City in October and was found dead three months later, would fund voluntary […]

UPDATE: January 24, 2014: After receiving an inspirational letter from a hearing-impaired girl congratulating him on his win, Seattle Seahawks running back Derrick Coleman, also hearing-impaired, wrote back to Riley Kovalcik in what is probably the sweetest story of the year thus far. On Wednesday, Coleman tweeted back the handwritten note of his own thanking his new […]

Get your Kleenex ready. We’re finally getting a look at what it took for an entire American city to transform into Gotham for a cancer survivor whose wish was to become Batman and save the day. The Make A Wish Foundation released the nine-minute documentary Miles’ Wish to be Batkid on Wednesday, showing footage of Miles, aka […]

The staff of a Kenyan morgue got the shock of their life when a man who had been pronounced dead regained consciousness and began calling for help. Paul Mutora tried to kill himself by swallowing insecticide and following a status of critical condition was pronounced dead on Wednesday night but according to the hospital’s chief […]

The family of California teenager Jahi McMath can breathe a little easier now that she is “finally healing.” The 13-year-old, who was declared brain-dead last month after a routine tonsil surgery, has finally been fitted with breathing and feeding tubes — a procedure Children’s Hospital Oakland refused to do because she was considered “deceased.” Now, according […]

It takes real bravery to admit when you’re wrong… Today, MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry opened her morning show with an apology for last Sunday’s segment in which the panel joked on a photo of the Romney family that included the former presidential candidates adopted grandson. “Any captions for this one?” Harris-Perry asked her panel. To which  Pia Glenn responded, “One […]