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Simone Edmond, a bus driver for 22 years, is crediting God for the incredible recovery in southeast Dallas County, a situation that could have ended quite differently had she not stepped in. Edmond told KDFW-TV, “It had to be God to send me that way because I don’t normally go that way. It had to…

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            A 12-year-old little league player posted to Instagram to thank his supporters for their prayers after falling from a bunk bed a couple weeks ago. Easton Oliverson was in Williamsport, Pennsylvania where his team had won the Little League Mountain Region and were ready to advance to the World Series when one of his…

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After 43 years at the pulpit, Rick Warren delivered his final sermon as head pastor at Saddleback Church on Sunday. Warren announced his plan leave the head pastor position in June of last year. Warren, who started the church in 1980, then announced that the process to replace him would begin immediately. Nearly exactly one…

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Kodak Black is lending a significant hand to Haitians cut off from food and water, due to extreme gang violence, by sending more than 35,000 bottles of water. Kodak heard about the Caribbean nation’s crisis and decided to do something to help the situation, dropping $50k to get tons of bottled water shipped there from…

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Women’s rights in the U.S. have made leaps and bounds since the passage of the 19th Amendment, yet many women still struggle to break the glass ceiling because of unequal treatment in society. Unfortunately, the gender gap in 21st-century America has only expanded. In 2022, the U.S. failed to place in the top 10, or…

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  The video starts simply enough with a woman, identified as Heather Schaeffer, drinking a large jug of water in her kitchen and explaining she is trying to keep her kidneys healthy. Yet, soon enough, it grows more serious as Heather explains that she is preparing to donate her kidney to a complete stranger. Posted…

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Whether it’s Jojo Siwa vs. Candice Cameron Bure or Kanye West vs Taylor Swift, there is a definite taste for celebrity feuds in popular culture. However, in a recent interview on the podcast, Prodigal Stories, former “Today” show anchor Kathie Lee Gifford reminisced about a better way to resolve feuds. Radio personality Howard Stern, known…

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The woman whose home was destroyed when Anne Heche crashed her car into it “narrowly escaped physical harm,” according to friends. Lynne Mishele’s neighbor, Lynne Bernstein, told PEOPLE Magazine the tenant “was extremely fortunate” to survive the accident with no injuries after the 53-year-old Emmy Award winner crashed her car into the Los Angeles residence on Friday, causing…

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Do phone calls from long-lost friends excite you? You’re not alone. A new study finds people often underestimate how much their old friends will appreciate receiving a call from them out of the blue. Researchers found that participants who called, texted, or emailed someone in their social circle to say hello consistently underrated how much…

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Much like Wakanda, Chadwick Boseman lives forever in the hearts of his “Black Panther” family. The spirit of the late actor, who died in August 2020 at age 43 of colon cancer, looms large in the emotional first trailer of the sequel “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever,” released late last month. That was all by design, as Boseman’s presence was also profoundly…

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