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A woman has been hailed a hero after details of her astonishing work with abandoned children has emerged. Lou Xiaoying, now 88 and suffering from kidney failure, found and raised more than 30 abandoned Chinese babies from the streets of Jinhua, in the eastern Zhejiang province where she managed to make a living by recycling rubbish. She and her late husband Li Zin, who died 17 years ago, kept four of the children and passed the others onto friends and family to start new lives. Her youngest son Zhang Qilin - now aged just seven - was found in a...

God given talent being used to mend broken hearts.

A 19-year-old man stepped up when he saw a young mother and her children in danger the night of the Batman premier theater shooting in Aurora, Colorado. Jarell Brooks is by all accounts a hero, but he doesn't want you to think of him that way. However, he very possibly saved three lives early Friday morning, and for that, he deserves the highest praise one can get. . . Legarreta said she doesn't remember everything that happened but is aware that without Brooks, she and her children would not be alive today. . . Brooks was on his way out...

A Colorado teenager who survived the mass shooting at a midnight screening of "The Dark Knight Rises" in Aurora this morning helped keep a young mother, her young child and her 4-month-old infant safe even though he was injured himself. Jarell Brooks, 19, has been released from Denver General Hospital and is now recovering at home after he suffered a gunshot wound to the leg after James Holmes, once a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Colorado, allegedly set off smoke bombs and opened fire on the unsuspecting audience, killing 12 people and injuring at least 50 in the attack....

...because he gave her his air mask during rescue A heroic firefighter who rescued a woman from a burning home is reportedly in trouble after giving her his air mask. As Philadelphia firefighter Fran Cheney carried Mary Jackson out of the home he selflessly gave her his own air mask - worried she wouldn’t survive the dangerous smoke. However after Wednesday's successful rescue, rather than praising Cheney a top fire department official allegedly told him that removing his air mask was not ‘a smart move.’ And Cheney’s decision to remove his mask during the rescue mission has now led to...

40) "A hippie is someone who looks like Tarzan, walks like Jane and smells like Cheetah." 39) "The American dream is not that every man must be level with every other man. The American dream is that every man must be free to become whatever God intends he should become." 38) "When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat." 37) "Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence." 36) "A taxpayer is someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take a civil-service exam."...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY AMERICA! "But I will sing of Your Strength, in the morning I will sing of Your Love" Psalm 59:16

An unemployed Brooklyn man missed a job interview Tuesday for the best of reasons: He was saving the life of a 9-month-old boy who was blown into the path of an oncoming subway train by a gust of high wind. Like a superhero without a cape, Delroy Simmonds jumped onto the elevated tracks and hoisted the bleeding child — still strapped into his stroller — to the safety of the platform as the J train bore down on them. The father of two then shrugged off his courageous, selfless act. “Everybody is making me out to be some sort of...

Less than one month ago near the Kandahar province in Afghanistan, Taylor was doing his job, right out in front. Leading a team of Army Special forces to a classified location, Taylor stepped on an IED. It exploded underneath him and blew off all four of his limbs. Taylor recalled the moment to me over the phone, "As soon as I stepped on it, I knew. There was a moment, then I heard the blast. I felt the heat. I knew I had lost my legs. As I summersaulted through the air, I watched my legs fly off." Taylor landed...

Is it possible for a Right-wing government to freeze spending and cut the deficit while remaining popular? As they say in New Zealand, ‘yih’. I’ve remarked before that, while no country is physically further from Britain, none is temperamentally closer. Yet there is a difference when it comes to public expenditure. A slowing of the rate of increase in the UK – there have, as yet, been no net cuts – is howled down as an assault on the poor directed by a clique of ancien régime aristocrats. In New Zealand, by contrast, ‘zero budgets’ are seen as prudent and...

The life of a true American hero - a husband, a father, a man of unyielding faith and courage. Fearless and selfless, with the ability to do anything, Adam Brown, above anything, exemplified the American spirit. PART 1. See on screen link for PART 2.

Former Marine Dies After Saving Friend From Burning Plane In Kansas Crash May 13, 2012 Ashlei King, News On 6 Austin Anderson was a recent Oral Roberts University graduate and served two tours in Iraq with the U.S. Marine Corps. According to Aubrey Crawford, Anderson pulled Hannah Luce from the plane, but the smoke from the fire was too much for him. He died the next morning. Elizabeth was supposed to be on the plane, but backed out because of a "bad feeling" her father had, Crawford said. Tragic news hit the Oral Roberts University campus this weekend. A former...

An eight year old pit bull is recovering in a Massachusetts animal hospital after conducting a remarkable rescue mission. According to witnesses, the heroic dog saved the life of her owner just before she was hit by an oncoming freight train. The Massachusetts SPCA said Christine Spain of Shirley was walking home with her dog Lilly when she collapsed on the tracks. Spain’s son, Boston Police Officer David Lanteigne, says the train’s engineer watched in amazement as the dog moved her owner out of harm’s way. Traveling at a high rate of speed, the train was unable to come to...

He is best known for his critical actions as an off-duty DC-10 training captain who helped captain Al Haynes minimize loss of life on United Airlines Flight 232 when all flight controls were lost, on July 19, 1989.

LAFAYETTE -- The last wish of Josie Tibbitts' mother was to have her ashes laid in her husband's empty grave. That wish isn't going to come true -- and Tibbitts couldn't be happier for it. That's because in a week, the remains of her father are coming home at last. Master Sgt. Elwood Green died in the Korean War at the age of 33. That much has been known. But it was only this year that two pieces of reburied bone -- a tibia and part of the jaw -- were identified as belonging to Green, a prisoner of war...

<p>Earlier this past week you may have heard on Glenn Beck’s radio show Michelle Bachman recanted a story that last Sunday (April 22nd) she was in Afghanistan and stood over a young man who had just lost his left leg in an IED attack.</p>

Ex-CIA chief defends waterboarding of al Qaeda leader Jose Rodriguez has no regrets about using the "enhanced interrogation techniques" - methods that some consider torture -- on al Qaeda detainees questioned after 9/11 and denies charges they didn't work. The former head of the CIA's Clandestine Service talks to Lesley Stahl about those methods, including waterboarding, for the first time and defends their use - even comparing them to the current policy of killing al Qaeda leaders with drone strikes. The Rodriguez interview will be broadcast on 60 Minutes Sunday, April 29 at 7 p.m. ET/PT. Rodriguez says everything his...

"Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid."(John 14:27) "Those who live in the shelter of the Most High will find rest in the shadow of the Almighty. This I declare of the Lord: He alone is my refuge, my place of safety; He is my God, and I am trusting Him."(Psalm 91:1-2)

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder has declared that there is no proof that in-person voter fraud is a problem. He's about to see proof that even he can't deny.In a new video (below) provided to Breitbart.com, James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas demonstrates why Holder should stop attacking voter ID laws--by walking into Holder’s voting precinct and showing the world that anyone can obtain Eric Holder’s primary ballot. Literally. The video shows a young man entering a Washington, DC polling place at 3401 Nebraska Avenue, NW, on primary day of this year--April 3, 2012--and giving Holder’s name and address. The poll worker promptly...

While the Supreme Court prepares its ruling on federal health care reform, a leading opponent of the law joined local leaders Monday night in a forum on the Affordable Care Act. Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli was one of 7 panelists in the forum held at Bristol Regional Medical Center. He filed Virginia's lawsuit against the federal government and tonight said he hopes the high court will rule it unconstitutional. “This isn't about health care,” says Cuccinelli. “It's about liberty. If the federal government can order us what health insurance we're going to buy, they can order us what car...