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Good News This Week: September 5, 2026 - Bears, Bakeries, & Turtle Women

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Good News This Week: August 29, 2026 - Cookies, Playgrounds, & Seahorses

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Three tan-colored pastries with hollow centers arranged on a white plate, with a blue container visible in the background.

Scientists recycle plastic bottles into protein-rich cookies: 'Would eat in a dire situation'

Global food demand is expected to rise 35–56% by the year 2050. Could 3D-printed food sourced from plastic waste be the answer?
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A person's hand holds a taco with a dark tortilla filled with reddish-brown cooked meat and garnished with small green leaves. A similar taco is partially visible in the lower left corner.

A Michelin-starred restaurant started a 'pay what you can' day. Now, 100 others in 14 countries follow their lead

Pay What You Can, or Paga Lo Que Puedas, originated at Michelin-starred restaurant Masala y Maíz in Mexico City. Now, it’s a global initiative.
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Left: Street corner at 19th Avenue showing downed tree branches, street sign, and solar light. Right: Person with black dreadlocks smiling against an orange brick wall.

Gary, Indiana has been without power for 12 days. A food influencer and NBA player are coming to the rescue

Keith Lee and Tyrese Haliburton are hosting a supply drive for Gary, Indiana residents on Monday.
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Good News This Week: August 15, 2026 - Otters, Libraries, & Signs

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Grocery store produce section with display bins containing potatoes, yams, and yellow, white, and purple onions, priced at $1.99 and $2.99. Refrigerated cases and shelves stocked with beverages visible in the blurred background.

These 3 states are the first to ban 'surveillance pricing' that uses personal data to charge more

Surveillance pricing uses personal data such as browsing history or shopping habits to set individualized prices on goods and services.
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A photo collage of a mom holding her child, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul standing in front of a lectern, a red wolf puppy, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, and a man stands next to a pile of boxes

Good News This Week: July 18, 2026 - Vaccines, Mosquitoes, & Red Wolves

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A man in a red shirt and sunglasses loads cardboard boxes from a dark pickup truck bed onto pavement in a parking lot.

This food mobile provides free meals to hundreds of kids who would otherwise go without all summer

The New Carlisle mobile route passed out about 150 food boxes last Wednesday.
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New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, wearing a dark blazer and white shirt, speaks into a microphone at a podium, smiling while gesturing with his hand to his chest.

Mamdani promised public grocery stores. Now he's opening NYC's first city-funded pet food pantry, too

The new initiative accompanies free and low-cost spay and neuter services in all five boroughs.
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Nuns stand on the sidelines of the Chicago Half Marathon, holding encouraging signs and smiling

She gave up her Olympic dreams to become a nun. Now, she's raised $2.6M to feed families by running marathons

Sister Stephanie Baliga has spent 15 years running marathons to help her community.
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Two side-by-side photos of Serena Neel, a white woman with blond hair, jumping into a swimming pool filled with pickles

An influencer filled her pool with 50K pickles to break a world record. Then she did something even better

“Anyone that swims in his pool is just going to smell a little garlicky.”
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