Former NFL star and CBS sports anchor Irv Cross had the brain disease CTE

The Philadelphia Eagles cornerback, who became the first Black man to work full-time as a sports analyst on national television, is the latest football player diagnosed with CTE. Cross died in 2021.

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Toddler Is Frst to Be Cured of Rare, Deadly Condition, Using New Versions of a Faulty Gene

A 19-month-old girl has become the first person to be cured of a rare and deadly condition, using a new therapy that inserts functional versions of a faulty gene into the patient’s bone marrow. Teddi Shaw is now predicted to live a long, normal, healthy life thanks to this “cure” for metachromatic leukodystrophy (MLD). “Teddi […]

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Terry Holland, who transformed Virginia basketball, dies at 80

Terry Holland elevated Virginia basketball to national prominence during 16 seasons as coach from 1974 to 1990.

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Major League Baseball is on the clock

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Grant Brisbee of The Athletic about the new Major League Baseball rules that have some baseball purists outraged.

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3D Batteries Printed Using Layers of Powder Use 40% Less Material, Charge in Minutes, Are Easier to Recycle

It seems like a new Silicon Valley startup could change the face of the battery industry forever by utilizing 3D printers to print solid-state batteries. Solid-state batteries have advantages over lithium-ion because they aren’t flammable, they’re more easily recycled, work in extreme cold, and have greater energy density. Solid-state batteries have traditionally been difficult to […]

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How a new MLB rule could change baseball games this season

A pitch clock will give pitchers 20 seconds or less to throw the ball, and hitters have to be in the batter's box when the timer hits 8 seconds. It already cost one team a game in spring training.

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Madison Snowplow Naming Contest Sees ‘Saltimus Prime’ Join ‘Seymour Pavement’ in Clearing Wisconsin Roads

As part of GNN’s continuing coverage of city snowplow naming competitions, the results of Madison Wisconsin’s contest are in, and they are just hail-arious. The city’s chief salting truck will be named “Saltimus Prime” after receiving a total of 1,630 votes. A smaller, agile, bike path-plower will be named “Snowbi Wan Kenobi” after receiving 1,910 […]

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Japanese Startup to Launch Public Space-Viewing Balloon Flights to Rival SpaceX

A Japanese aerospace startup is hoping to make space tourism even more accessible with a balloon capsule that hovers up 14 miles above the Earth. With an unobstructed view of space above, and the curvature of the Earth clearly visible below, the capsule is designed to rival existing space tourism flights that cost millions per […]

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Students Raise More Than $270K So 80-Year-Old janitor Can Retire from Texas High School

High school seniors managed to secure a quarter-million dollars for their sweet, 80-year-old janitor who had to come out of retirement after his rent went up. The money was raised through a GoFundMe, which started out as a simple goal of $10,000, but quickly took on a goal of its own. Several seniors at Callisburg […]

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Good News in History, February 27

4 years ago today, the smallest baby boy ever born that would survive to leave the hospital went home in Tokyo with his mom, having been born just 9.45 ounces, or 268 grams. He was born as small as a baby kitten at 24 weeks after doctors discovered he was not growing in the womb […]

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Motorcyclists Can Now Be Safe Thanks to World’s First Airbag Pants to Protect Riders

Motorcyclists can soon be safer thanks to a company that produced the world’s first airbag suit. The garment is made from the strongest denim on the planet. Even more unique are the airbags that activate via small CO2 cartridges whenever the rider falls from their bike. The trigger mechanism is a tether connecting the jeans […]

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Unsolved Mystery Ends in Laughs as Sheep is Caught Using Head to Unlock Barn Gate to Free His Posse–LOOK

A farm staff was stunned after it learned that one clever sheep had been unlocking a gate to let herself and her pals roam free. The Whitehouse Farm Centre in Morpeth, England, had no suspects for the rash of break-outs in their barn. They were left baffled when Lucy the one-year-old Leicester sheep and her […]

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Woman Helped 100 Seniors Re-Home Their Pets Before Passing Away, Bringing ‘Peace of Mind’

A 28-year-old who helps the elderly to re-home their pets before passing away has celebrated her 100th adoption. Angela Rafuse was inspired to create her charity after her 85-year-old grandfather died, leaving his cat, Mackenzie, without a home. None of Angela’s relatives had capacity to take on the responsibility, so she decided to take in […]

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Good News in History, February 26

194 years ago today, Levi Strauss was born in what was then the Kingdom of Bavaria. Moving to Louisville Kentucky in the 1850s, and then to San Francisco in 1871, Levi Strauss began importing all kinds of goods from the east coast, including tents, and eventually jeans. Strauss met Jacob Davis doing this work, and […]

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On the Kansas prairie, a master falconer develops a unique bond with birds of prey

Monte Markley read My Side of the Mountain as a kid and was captivated by the story of a boy and his falcon. He's now a master falconer, training his latest bird on the grasslands of Kansas.

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Man Who Didn’t Read or Write Until His Late Teens Becomes Cambridge University’s Youngest Black Professor

A boy with autism who could not read or write until his late teens is now the youngest-ever Black professor at Cambridge University 20 years later. As a child, Jason Arday was diagnosed with global developmental delay, which affecting his ability to learn how to talk and read. Speechless until age 11, therapists even predicted […]

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Home Depot Invests Another $1 Billion in Pay Increases for Hourly Workers

This week, The Home Depot announced that it is investing an additional $1 billion in wage increases for its hourly associates. The raises have already started arriving for all tenured frontline hourly associates. They will also benefit anyone just hired for a new job at the chain hardware store, boosting starting wages in every U.S. […]

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World’s Largest Dance Marathon Busts a Record Move Raising $15M for Childhood Cancer

Students at Penn State University have raised a whopping $15 million during their annual 46-hour ‘no sleeping or sitting’ dance marathon. It was an all-time record high—and will benefit Four Diamonds, a national nonprofit fund that covers 100% of all medical expenses for families with childhood cancer at Penn State Health Children’s Hospital. Dubbed THON, […]

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Good News in History, February 25

74 years ago today, the great Lebanese/French scholar and writer Amin Maalouf was born. His bibliography has been translated into over 40 languages worldwide and contains a mixture of award-winning fiction and non-fiction books. In 1984, Maalouf published what for scholars and historians of the Middle Ages was a huge spanner in the works of […]

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Conservation Zoos Have Powerful Potential to ‘Reverse Extinction’ Study Shows

Zoos have “powerful potential” to reverse extinctions, according to a new study that found zoos, aquariums, botanical gardens, and seedbanks have a 50/50 record at bringing extinct species back into the wild. In other words, thanks to dedicated conservationists, after a species’ chance of survival drops to zero in the wild, they still have a […]

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Remembering baseball announcer and former all-star catcher Tim McCarver

McCarver, who died Feb. 16, played in the major leagues from 1959 until 1980. After retirement, he shifted to color commentary from the broadcast booth. Originally broadcast in 1987.

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Good News in History, February 24

55 years ago today, British astronomers discovered a radio signal in their new telescope outside Cambridge that turned out to be the first pulsar. These highly-magnetized neutron stars spin at incredible speeds, and are one of the most interesting phenomena in space. Antony Hewish and Martin Ryle along with Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Hewish’s research student, […]

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For 3 Hours Doctors Continued CPR on Toddler with No Pulse–Until Life Returned

When 3-year-old Waylon Saunders arrived at the hospital, he was already legally dead and had been for a while. Found face-down in an icy backyard swimming pool, the Ontario toddler’s body temperature was so low that paramedics’ thermometers couldn’t get a reading, and he had no pulse. Nevertheless, a team at Charlotte Eleanor Englehart Hospital […]

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Heinz Looks for Man Who Survived a Month at Sea Eating Only Ketchup So They Can Buy Him a Boat

Spotting an opportunity to change someone’s life and nab some pretty stunning publicity in the process, Heinz is looking to get in contact with a Dominican sailor who survived four weeks adrift at sea with little more sustenance than a bottle of ketchup. The company wants to give the man a new boat with state-of-the-art […]

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French Football Star Scores First Goal Since Beating Cancer – And it was World Cancer Day!

February 4th, World Cancer Day at Signal Iduna Park in Dortmund, Germany: it’s a day French-Ivorian striker Sébastien Haller will always remember. Last summer, Haller was diagnosed with testicular cancer just weeks after signing a long-term contract to play for the second-biggest team in Germany, Borussia Dortmund. It was a difficult, scary period for the […]

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Archaeologists Uncover ‘Complete Roman City’ From 1,800 Years Ago in Luxor–Including Pigeon Towers

Archaeologists in Egypt have just succeeded in completely excavating a small Roman city in the classical capital of Luxor, which contained workshops, homes, and “pigeon towers.” Dr. Mostafa Waziri from the Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities stressed the importance of the discovery, as it revealed the oldest Roman residential city on the eastern side of the […]

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Dog Lost For 36 Hours Rings Animal Shelter Doorbell

When a rescue dog found herself lost in her new neighborhood, she somehow knew just where to go to find help. Back in January, a husky-mix named Bailey adopted by a family in Upper El Paso went missing, and her owners went to social media to try and find help locating her. They contacted the […]

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Standout player from the NBA All-Star weekend is back to being a journeyman

Mac McClung dominated the NBA slam dunk competition. He is back in the G-League — playing for the Philadelphia 76ers'developmental team, the Delaware Blue Coats.

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Good News in History, February 23

137 years ago today, an American inventor used electrolysis to extract aluminum from aluminum oxide, a process that eventually resulted in reducing the price of aluminum by a factor of 200, making it affordable for many practical uses from soda cans to the Wright Flyer. As small grains amid clay, it was thought by medieval […]

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Unhealthy Fat Could Be Turned Into ‘Good Fat’ to Keep Us Youthful and Thinner

Did you know your body actually contains three different kinds of fat? That’s right, humans have brown, beige, and white fat adipose tissues, and a newfound ability to turn one into the other could create a revolution in metabolic disease prevention. By turning a select number of genes in white fat cells off, they reverted […]

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Stolen Trove of Angkor Royal Jewelry Returned to Cambodia After Resurfacing in London

A trove of precious jewelry from Cambodia’s past has been repatriated after surfacing in London. Totaling 77 artifacts from the medieval kingdom of Angkor, they are believed to have been trafficked from the country during the tyranny of the Khmer Rouge and the civil wars that plagued the country during the 20th century. Angkor was […]

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Senior With No Car Walks to Work–But After She Found $15k and Returned it She Does Now

Strangers around the country are rewarding a Michigan woman for her honesty after turning in nearly $15,000 cash to the police that she found at a gas station. It turned out to be the contributions of guests to a pair of newlyweds, who were more than overwhelmed by her integrity. 65-year-old Dianne Gordon has been […]

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Dutch Woman Smashes a World Record Unbroken For 41 Years–While Home Audience Cheers

A 41-year-old world record in women’s track and field stands no longer after a young Dutch speed demon smashed it in front of her home crowd. Femke Bol took off at the starting pistol at the Dutch Indoor Championships in Apeldoorn, and completed a 400-meter sprint in 49.26 seconds, beating Jarmila Kratochvílová’s world record of […]

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Good News in History, February 22

74 years ago today, Andreas Nikolaus Lauda, the famous 3x Formula One World Driver’s champion, was born in Vienna. He’s best known for his wins with McLaren and Ferrari, as well as his fierce rivalry with British driver James Hunt. So desperate was Lauda to get into professional racing he took out a £30,000 bank […]

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After Russia finds "no fault" in doping scandal of figure skater, WADA appeals case

Kamila Valieva helped Russia win gold in team figure skating at the 2022 Beijing Olympics. It wasn't until after the competition that it was learned she'd previously tested positive for doping.

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First of Its Kind Discovery in Mali: Vast Reservoirs of Clean Hydrogen Gas

In the beautiful West African country of Mali, a huge discovery has a town drawing a flammable gas from the earth that produces loads of electricity without CO2 emissions. The town called Bourakébougou was prospected by Malian energy entrepreneur Aliou Diallo, who believed the mysterious gas which in the daytime shone with a blue color […]

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Amazing Footage Shows Birth of ‘Precious’ Rare Twin Tiger Cubs at UK Zoo

Secret cameras have captured the amazing moment two incredibly rare tiger cubs were born at a UK zoo. The tiny twins arrived at Chester Zoo on January 7th to proud first-time parents, tiger mom Kasarna and her partner Dash. The births have been heralded as a “major boost for the conservation of these incredible animals”, […]

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Astronomers Observe 2 Neutron Stars Colliding and the Extreme Reaction ‘Defies All Expectations’

Astronomers just finished putting into words the first observation of a “kilonova,” or the merger of two neutron stars. The scientists described it as the “perfect explosion” as it was utterly spherical, and brighter than a billion suns. After the two heavy stars merged, for a few moments they formed a massive neutron star, after […]

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Good News in History, February 21

75 years ago today, the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing, LLC (NASCAR) was established in Daytona Beach, Florida. The American racing circuit was incorporated by Bill France who had moved to Florida to escape the worst of the Great Depression. France had the notion that people would enjoy watching stock cars race. Drivers […]

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Don't dunk on the NBA Slam Dunk Contest

A key part of the NBA All Star Weekend is the Slam Dunk Contest. We look at how both pro basketball and dunking have evolved and why fans can't get enough of it.

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Mac McClung dominated the NBA slam dunk comp. Shaq says he just saved the contest

The 76ers' fresh-faced point guard was the undisputed star of the night. In every round of the dunk contest, McClung bungeed his 6'2" frame up to the net with flourish.

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North America’s Only Native Stork Poised to Fly off the Endangered Species List

After teetering on the edge of extinction almost 50 years ago, the wood stork is now widespread across the southeastern US, and is preparing a flight off the Endangered Species List (ESL). It’s all in a day’s work for the ESL, the world’s most successful conservation program in history, and the only stork native to […]

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5,000 Year-Old Tavern Found in Iraq

It doesn’t get much older than Sumeria, but even the modern concept of going out to eat was already established 1,000 years before the Great Pyramids were built. In the ancient Near Eastern city-state of Lagash, the foundations of a tavern were recently found by archaeologists that included an open-air sitting area, and a kitchen […]

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Brian 'Thee beast' fights his way to Kenyan gaming domination!

When his family fell into poverty, a young boy in Kenya found comfort and strength from video games. Now he's the country's gaming ambassador, a mentor to kids in the slums — and a firefighter.

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Good News in History, February 20

146 years ago today, Swan Lake premiered at Moscow’s Bolshoi Theater. Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky wrote the music for this most famous of ballets for the Moscow Imperial Theatres director for 800 roubles. No one knows for sure who wrote the libretto but when it debuted at the Bolshoi it was heavily criticized as overall […]

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Discovery: Cockatoos Know to Bring Multiple Tools When Fishing For Nuts–An Ability Only Seen in Chimpanzees

Goffin’s cockatoos have been added to the short list of non-human animals that use and transport sets of tools. In a study publishing in the journal Current Biology on February 10, researchers show that the cockatoos carry multiple tools to their worksite when the job calls for it. This type of behavior has only been […]

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Critically Endangered Dancing Lemur Born in UK is ‘Landmark Moment for Species’ After Parents Sent From US Zoo

The first ever ‘dancing lemur’ to be bred in Europe was born at a UK zoo in a “landmark moment for the species”. The precious baby Coquerel’s sifaka arrived at Chester Zoo on December 19, weighing just 4oz (119g) following a 130-day pregnancy. Proud parents Beatrice and Elliot, both aged ten, successfully bred after being […]

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Eight Mysterious Radio Signals Uncovered by Astronomers Using AI Could Be Extraterrestrial Intelligence

Astronomers have picked up eight mysterious radio signals that could be coming from aliens sending messages with technology more advanced than our own. The electromagnetic waves were detected using state of the art AI (artificial intelligence), or deep learning. The signals were sourced to areas surrounding five ‘nearby’ stars 30 to 90 light years away. […]

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Brittney Griner is headed back to the Phoenix Mercury, the AP reports

Griner has re-signed with the WNBA team on a one-year contract, a source told The Associated Press. The 32-year-old returned home from Russia in December after a high-level prisoner swap.

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She Turns Old Leather Sofas into Chic $200 Handbags to Cut Down on Waste–And They’re Flying Out the Door

An Englishwoman is turning old leather sofas into beautiful handbags as a way to save them from the landfill. Lisa Crick gets the pre-loved couches donated to her for free, and she upcycles the good parts into totes, messenger bags, and luggage in the space of a week. She tries to use every part of […]

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Adults 70 and Older Swear by These Activities to Keep Them Younger Than Their Age – ‘Stereotypes No Longer Apply’

Three-quarters of people who reached 70 years or older agreed in a new poll that the ‘old age stereotypes’ no longer apply to today’s seniors. In fact, 72 percent of this group feel “years younger” than their actual age and are far more active than they imagined they would be. The survey of 1,000 people […]

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You Can Bring Joy to Children’s Hospital By Building a Snowman to Match the Drawings by Patients

A unique project that brings joy to a Colorado children’s hospital is back this winter—and the best thing about it are the strangers who pull on their boots so they can “Say Hi with a Snowman”. For the third year in a row, kids who are stuck in Children’s Hospital Colorado can draw their version […]

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Saturday Sports: NBA All-Star weekend; sports broadcasters' financial trouble

Scott Simon talks with Howard Bryant of Meadowlark Media about NBA All-Star weekend, MLB spring training, and financial trouble for regional sports broadcasters.

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Your Inspired Weekly Horoscope From Rob Brezsny: A ‘Free Will Astrology’

Our partner Rob Brezsny provides his weekly wisdom to enlighten our thinking and motivate our mood. Rob’s Free Will Astrology, is a syndicated weekly column appearing in over a hundred publications. He is also the author of Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How All of Creation Is Conspiring To Shower You with Blessings. (A free […]

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Good News in History, February 18

80 years ago today, Sir Bobby Robson was born. Over a managerial career that spanned nearly 40 years and included title-winning tenures in Portugal, Spain, England, and The Netherlands, Bobby Robson was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for his services to football, which also included an 8 year-management of the English National Football Team. READ more […]

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A Make-A-Wish recipient recalls meeting Michael Jordan, who just donated $10 million

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Katie Dankowski about Michael Jordan's record-breaking $10 million donation. Dankowski met Jordan herself, as her wish as a child battling a brain tumor.

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‘Fantastic’ Finding Uncovers Silent Frog Species That ‘Doesn’t Croak, Chirp, Sing or Ribbit’

Originally written by Liz Kimbrough. Reprinted from Mongabay on a CC 4.0. License.  Up in Tanzania’s Ukaguru Mountains, researchers have found a new-to-science frog species with a unique trait: it doesn’t make a sound. The small, silent Ukaguru spiny-throated reed frog (Hyperolius ukaguruensis) doesn’t croak, chirp, sing, or ribbit. “It’s a very odd group of […]

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Michael Jordan Donates $10 Million to Make-A-Wish for his 60th Birthday, Setting a Record

Hir Royal Airness himself celebrated his 60th birthday today with the largest donation to the Make-a-Wish Foundation in history. The $10 million fortune will go to “create an endowment to provide the funds needed to make future wishes possible for kids with critical illnesses,” the foundation explained in a release. Witnessing the strength and resilience […]

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Wife of WWII Soldier Spent Decades on Husband’s Wish to Reunite Japanese Family With Photo Album He Found on Okinawa

With persistence, belief, and the amount of sheer dumb luck normally needed to win the lottery, a Portland senior tracked down a Japanese family based on the photos left behind in an album her late husband plucked from the shrapnel-strewn beaches of Okinawa in 1945. Strangers, friends of friends, and non-English speakers all pitched in […]

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India Connects ‘Mega Milestone’ of 80 Million Rural Households to the Water Supply in Just 4 Years

India’s Jal Jeevan Mission of tap water access continues to be one of the great, unsung stories of human development. Almost 79 million households have been provided with access to a tap water connection since the program’s launch in August 2019, bringing the total to 111 million, or 56% of rural households in the nation. […]

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Mikaela Shiffrin wins gold in giant slalom at the world championships

The victory makes Shiffrin only the fourth female skier to win world titles in four different disciplines. Last month, she broke Lindsey Vonn's women's record of 82 World Cup wins.

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Michael Jordan sets another record — a $10 million donation to Make-A-Wish

Make-A-Wish said the NBA legend's donation is the largest individual contribution it has ever received. It said Jordan's gift will create an endowment to fulfill future wishes.

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76-year-old Student Finally Graduates 50 Years After He Began His Ph.D. in Philosophy

Newly-graduated ‘Doctor’ Nick Axten said it took him “a long hard think” to get his doctoral dissertation in order, which is probably what most Ph.D. candidates would say. Unlike most candidates however, it took Dr. Axten 5 decades before the 76-year-old student finally graduated with a Ph.D. in mathematical sociology at the University of Bristol. […]

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Owl Escapes NYC Zoo But After Survival Instincts Kick-in Officials Give it Some Freedom in Central Park

On February 3rd, a jailbreak occurred in Manhattan—it was a Eurasian eagle owl named Flaco. Investigators don’t know the identity of his vandal accomplice who shredded the netting of his enclosure, and the search for witnesses is ongoing. In all seriousness, Central Park Zoo’s Flaco had lived his whole adult life in captivity, and the […]

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Cures and Prevention For Some of the Worst Diseases Come From a Surprising Ally – Our Sewers

If it still holds that the enemy of my enemy is my friend, then a virus that kills bacteria might be a good place to start developing medicines. Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) creating “superbugs” is the largest threat to individual health on Earth. As many as 60% of the strains of common bacteria that live in […]

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Kansas City held a parade to celebrate the Super Bowl win

It's time for a parade and rally for Super Bowl champs the Kansas City Chiefs. Much of the city attended.

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Dismayed by Lack of Financial Literacy in School, Financial Writer Starts Podcast to Teach Everyone How to Protect Their Wealth

Former Yahoo Finance editor Adam Taggart always thought it was bizarre and unacceptable that financial literacy wasn’t compulsive in high school and college, but the years 2019 through 2021 made him realize that America needed help understanding how to protect their livelihoods from financial dangers. He created Wealthion, the fastest growing, totally-free, online financial literacy […]

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Old Batteries from Electric Vehicles Get New Life Powering California’s Grid

A California start-up has saved thousands of used electric vehicle battery packs from landfills by diverting them into an energy storage facility. BWU Storage Solutions made a million bucks last year selling stored renewable energy to the CA power grid, thanks to 1,300 used battery packs from Toyota and Honda EVs. Worn out over long […]

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23-Year-Old Rows Solo 3,000 Miles Across Atlantic Setting Race Record for Female

A 23-year-old woman just set the Talisker Challenge record for the fastest solo row across the Atlantic. Departing from the Canary Islands on the 10th of December, Mariam Payne rowed 59 days, 16 hours, and 36 minutes, before arriving in Antigua last Friday. The extraordinary feat was accomplished to raise money for the east Yorkshire […]

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The Chiefs celebrate their Super Bowl win with a parade through Kansas City

KCUR in Kansas City has live updates from the parade route as the Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs celebrate their win with a parade through their hometown.

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An Army of 10,000 Women Saved India’s Rarest Stork – While Giving Each Other a New identity

Changing attitudes towards conservation in the Indian state of Assam have these women wearing paper-mache hats to support one of the world’s most endangered storks. Once reviled for their foul smell, carrion-filled diet, and unhandsome appearance, the greater adjutant has become a welcomed member of communities where it was once killed as a pest thanks […]

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Good News in History, February 15

22 years ago today, the Human Genome Project successfully sequenced the full human genome for the first time in history. The results were later published in 2004, with only 341 gaps in the sequencing representing highly-repetitive and other DNA that could not be sequenced with the technology available at the time. Humanity decided to “go […]

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World’s Known-Lithium Reserves Increase 40% After Colossal Discovery in India Turns Up 5.9 Milion Tons

In a stunning development for the future of technology, India, one of the world’s fastest-growing economies, just uncovered vast reserves of lithium in the Reasi district of the northern union territory of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K). The Geological Survey of India (GSI) has recently inferred that around 5.9 million metric tonnes of lithium could be […]

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Yale Honors Work of 9-Year-Old Girl Who is Stomping Out Extremely Invasive Lanternflies in New Jersey

When 9-year-old Bobbi Wilson heard about the Hoboken campaign to eradicate the spotted lanternfly, she took the message to heart, whipped up some homemade, non-toxic, spotted lanternfly poison out of vinegar, and headed out to do her part. Yale decided to highlight this citizen scientist, as she donated her collection of 27 laternflies to the […]

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Flood of “Right to Repair” Bills Signals DIY Watershed Moment

Across America, more than 20 state legislatures are looking over proposed laws that would help guarantee citizens’ access to parts, instructions, and diagnoses to help them repair products—from smartphones to tractors—in their own homes. Called the “Right to Repair” movement, it’s been growing in urgency and size since the turn of the millennium, and 2023 […]

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Good News in History, February 14

76 years ago today, Phạm Tuân was born in Viet Nam. He became the first Vietnamese citizen and the first person from an East Asian country to fly in space when he launched aboard the Soyuz 37 mission as an Interkosmos Research Cosmonaut. He was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union. Furthermore, he […]

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Biggest Coin Hoard in a Decade Worth £150,00 Discovered During “Metal Detecting Rally” In British Countryside

It’s always big news among Britain’s metal detecting hobbyists when a hoard is found, and a new one from Buckinghamshire is the biggest in a decade. 600 Medieval coins, including 12 rare gold “nobles” from the reign of Edward III, have been declared treasure by the British Government, and valued at around £150,000 ($180,000). Seven […]

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Pentagon Has Reversed Rulling on the Release of art Made by Guantanamo Bay Detainees

In a rare moment of criminal justice, Guantánamo Bay detainees managed to win themselves some rights, but not the ones you might imagine. A recent Pentagon ruling reversed a previous decision to block Guantánamo Bay prisoners from exhibiting paintings made during their illegal imprisonment. Now, outgoing inmates will be allowed to take a “practicable quantity […]

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The Best Super Bowl 2023 Ads You May Have Missed

There’s something for everyone at the Super Bowl, sport, the halftime show, and of course, the commercials. It started all the way back in 1967 that Super Bowl ads became premium price, and they’ve only gotten more expensive for companies looking to showcase their products. In fact, a 30-second spot costs around $7 million. Today […]

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Morning news brief

U.S. fighter jets have shot down three mystery objects in as many days. Rescuers search for survivors a week after a massive quake hit Turkey and Syria. Kansas City beat Philadelphia in the Super Bowl

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Super Bowl commercials, from Adam Driver(s) to M&M candies; the hits and the misses

Advertisers spent up to $7 million for every 30 seconds of airtime during Super Bowl LVII. Here's a sampling of what worked – and didn't – in the most expensive ad showcase on American television.

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Good News in History, February 13

This daily column at GNN.org features all the good news, anniversaries and notable birthdays from this day in history—February 13.

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‘Gentle Giant’ Cat Has Gotten So Big He Now Measures Over 4-Feet and Gets Mistaken for Dog

A giant cat has gotten so big it is now 4.27 feet long, the average height of a nine-year-old (1.3m). The enormous Maine Coon has often been mistaken for a dog, leaving many people stunned. Owner Natalie Bowman adopted Finn in 2017, when he was just three and half months old. The cat’s stupendous size […]

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Kansas City is super again: Chiefs beat Philadelphia Eagles 38-35 in 2023 Super Bowl

Chiefs quarterback and NFL MVP Patrick Mahomes led the Chiefs to their third Super Bowl victory (and second in three years). It's the first time the reigning MVP has won a Super Bowl since 1999.

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Philly's Super Bowl prep involves greasing lampposts

Philadelphians tend to climb when their sports teams win. The city has tried greasing the lampposts. With the Eagles now Super Bowl-bound, it's amping up efforts to keep fans on the ground.

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Earliest Evidence of Ancestors Using Tools Up to Three Million Years Ago Unearthed in Kenya

The earliest evidence of human ancestors using tools up to three million years ago has been unearthed in Kenya. They were employing some of the oldest stone implements ever found to cut up hippo meat and pound plant material on the shores of Lake Victoria, say scientists. The team explained that because fire would not […]

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Fans in Philadelphia and Kansas City are gearing up for Super Bowl Sunday

Fans in Philadelphia and Kansas City are excited about their teams' prospects in tonight's Super Bowl.

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Good News in History, February 12

147 years ago today, the 13th Dalai Lama, Thubten Gyatso, was born. Recognized as the reincarnation of the Dalai Lama when he was just two, Gyatso was a seminal figure in Tibet’s 19th and 20th century history. He streered his people through turbulent political environments while the last Chinese imperial dynasty, the Qing, collapsed and […]

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Preemie Given 10% Chance of Survival Defies the Odds and is Now ‘a Genius’ Who Outsmarts His Teachers (WATCH)

Jamie Mohr who was given a 10 percent chance of survival when he was born weighing just 1lb 8oz has defied the odds—and now is a genius prodigy at age 4. Jamie’s mom was told her placenta stopped working at 20-weeks and the baby was no longer getting the nutrients to grow. Doctors warned Lorraine […]

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MIT Develops AI that Predicts Lung Cancer Risk up to 6 Years in Advance, Like Finding a ‘Needle in a Haystack’

Researchers at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) have developed a new AI deep learning model that can predict lung cancer risk up to six years in advance through a single low-dose CT scan. Lung cancer is the deadliest cancer in the world—resulting in more deaths than the next three cancers combined. It is also extremely […]

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Opinion: Who are the real winners in the NFL?

NPR's Scott Simon reflects on football coach Sean Payton's new contract with the Denver Broncos as well as NFL player safety ahead of Sunday's Super Bowl game.

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Saturday Sports: Super Bowl; NBA and WNBA drafts; Olympics controversy

Tomorrow's Super Bowl. The NBA and WNBA drafts. And a new Olympics controversy.

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Your Valentine’s Day Horoscope From Rob Brezsny: A ‘Free Will Astrology’

Our partner Rob Brezsny provides his weekly wisdom to enlighten our thinking and motivate our mood. Rob’s Free Will Astrology, is a syndicated weekly column appearing in over a hundred publications. He is also the author of Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How All of Creation Is Conspiring To Shower You with Blessings. (A free […]

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Good News in History, February 11

65 years ago today, the 1st Party Congress of the PRC adopted the first official system of Hanyu Pinyin—the romanization of Mandarin Chinese, allowing more than 2 billion people whose native language uses the Latin alphabet to learn Chinese. In 1955 the Chinese government placed Zhou at the head of a committee to reform the […]

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The Sodfather: George Toma has tended the turf at every Super Bowl game

A 94-year-old football turf expert is putting the finishing touches on the ground that will host Sunday's Super Bowl. He says sod care is a bigger chore for the halftime show than the game itself.

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This race is a nonstop sail around the world. Cassette tapes are allowed, but no GPS

To win the Golden Globe Race, sailors compete solo using celestial navigation to find their way, and they are forced to battle high winds and rough seas without the use of any electronic equipment.

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Good News in History, February 10

113 years ago today, Fr. Georges Dominique Pire was born in Dinant, Belgium. The Dominican friar won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1958 for his work helping the plight of refugees in Europe after the Second World War. During the war itself, Pire served as chaplain to the Belgian resistance, actively participating in its activities, […]

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Young Florida athletes won't have to share their menstrual cycle details to compete

Florida high school athletic officials held an emergency meeting Thursday to discuss ongoing controversy around a proposal to require female athletes to disclose details of their menstrual cycles.

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Fans are in disbelief over Kevin Durant's departure from the Brooklyn Nets

Fans, fellow NBA athletes and the mayor of Phoenix all took to social media to voice their reactions. "That is insane," one fan, Joe Brooks, told NPR. "I can't believe that they actually did it."

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Ohio Man Brings Voters of All Stripes Together to Agree to Disagree Over ‘Dinner and a Dialogue’

After a man in Ohio got in a fight with some friends over political positions, he realized the country needed a new method of agreeing to disagree. He created a gathering called Dinner and a Fight, but fight is crossed-out and replaced with “dialogue,” and after 11 such meetings people continue to show up— all […]

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Codebreakers Crack Secrets of Lost Mary Queen of Scots Letters 430 Years After She Wrote them in Captivity

An international cryptology team accidentally discovered a series of coded letters written by Mary Queen of Scots and deciphered them. The contents of those letters that have so far been decoded reveal the thoughts, plots, and emotions penned by Mary while she was imprisoned by Queen Elizabeth I, and were believed to have been lost […]

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5 storylines to watch for a Super Bowl between heavyweights: the Chiefs and Eagles

The Philadelphia Eagles were the league's most complete team this year, but Kansas City had its best offense by far. Plus, look out for a pair of brothers and a historic quarterback matchup.

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Good News in History, February 9

100 years ago today, the great Irish playwright and author Brendan Behan was born in Dublin. Famous for the dark, gripping play The Quare Fellow, an outrageous drunken BBC interview with Malcom Muggeridge, and an autobiographical novel which became a world-wide bestseller, Behan was named by the newspaper Irish Central as one of the greatest […]

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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar reflects on his strained relationship with LeBron James

In an online letter a day after James broke his scoring record, Abdul-Jabbar blamed himself for the contentious relationship between them, citing his own introversion and a significant age gap.

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Artist Creates Fantasy Sculptures By Repurposing Dead Insects

An artistic form of recycling has an artist in Belgium creating exceptionally unique sculptures from the bits, bones, and barbs of insects. Joos Habraken creates these insectoid sculptures, measuring from 8 to 15 centimeters tall, out of between 30 and 100 pieces of dead insects. Each sculpture can contain parts from up to 30 individual […]

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5-Year-old Who Emptied Piggybank for Earthquake Relief Now Wins $48Mil Lottery Jackpot at 18

A delightful story from northern Ontario saw a 5-year-old girl’s good Karma wait 13 years to reward her. Juliette Lamour won the state’s second-largest lottery jackpot in history, CAD$48 million, on her first-ever try. Local news from her home city of Sault Saint Marie revealed a touching side of the story—that at 5 years old […]

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No matter who wins, the first Super Bowl with 2 Black quarterbacks will make history

With Jalen Hurts under center for the Eagles and Patrick Mahomes helming the Chiefs, Sunday's game will mark a milestone after decades of effort by Black quarterbacks to overcome discrimination.

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Good News in History, February 8

198 years ago today, Henry Walter Bates, naturalist, explorer, and author of one of the finest natural travel accounts ever written, was born in Leicester. The gentleman explorer would send 14,712 specimens (mostly insects) collected during a long career exploring in the Amazon back to England for scientific research. He wrote The Naturalist on the […]

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LeBron James breaks the NBA career scoring record, passing Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

The last time a new name appeared atop the NBA's all-time points rankings was in April 1984. LeBron James was born later that year.

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