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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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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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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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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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2020 Rewind: The Best Good-News Stories of the Year
While 2020 was a year of hardship, people still went above and beyond to help and inspire others. These were some of the best good-news stories of the year.
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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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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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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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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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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 —...
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‘Miracle' COVID-19 Survivor Finally Leaves NYC Hospital After 128-Day Fight For His Life
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
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Coronavirus Coffee Break: Baby Animals
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.
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Fundraiser Helps NYC's Historic Stonewall Inn Survive Pandemic
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