Good morning! I’m kicking off this beautiful Sunday with something different: a good news update. I’ve shared these sporadically in the past, but moving forward, you can expect them more often—because there’s plenty of good news out there that you won’t see covered anywhere else.
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With that, here’s the good news:
After losing both her wedding band and another ring on a Cape May beach, New Jersey’s Laura Emanuel had each one found and returned by different strangers—one by a family playing in the sand and the other by firefighter and metal detector hobbyist Jeffery Laag—who reunited them and delivered them to her doorstep “like a superhero.”
Illinois First Lady M.K. Pritzker has partnered with Willette Benford—who rebuilt her life after serving 24 years in prison and became Chicago’s first director of re-entry—to launch programs improving housing, jobs, childcare, and mental health support for formerly incarcerated women, aiming to give hundreds the same “second-chance” success Benford achieved.
YouTubers MrBeast (Jimmy Donaldson) and Mark Rober have launched Team Water, a campaign aiming to raise $40 million to provide clean water access for 2 million people for decades.
In rural Vermont, airplane engineer Patrick Schlott is reviving old pay phones as free public calling stations in cell-service dead zones, installing them in spots like a general store and library, covering the costs himself, and even acting as operator—enabling hundreds of community calls each month, especially for students without cell phones.
A Virginia Tech study found that ordinary pet dogs, trained by their owners, can successfully sniff out invasive spotted lanternfly egg masses—detecting them up to 82% of the time in tests—offering a powerful, low-cost way for citizen scientists to help protect farms, orchards, and vineyards from severe crop damage.
A Japanese company, Lib Work, has built the nation’s first 3D-printed home made primarily from local soil—eliminating cement to cut carbon emissions, enhancing strength fivefold, integrating smart sensors, solar power, and Tesla battery storage, and aiming to produce 10,000 sustainable, fully recyclable units by 2040.
Last month, during severe flooding in Texas’ hill country, Coast Guard rescue swimmer Scott Ruskan single-handedly led 165 people—mostly children—from a summer camp to safety via Army helicopters, navigating destroyed roads, poor communications, and dangerous storm conditions on his very first rescue mission.
After a decade-long legal and activist battle sparked by the 2014 water crisis, Flint, Michigan has replaced nearly 11,000 lead pipes under a 2017 court settlement—bringing safe drinking water to thousands of homes and marking a major milestone in the city’s fight for clean water.
Mexico City’s Taquería El Califa de León became the first taco stand ever to earn a Michelin Star, recognized for its simplicity and quality with just four menu items, standout tortillas, and the signature Gaonera taco; chef Arturo Rivera Martínez’s minimalist approach highlights Mexico’s rich culinary tradition in the country’s first-ever Michelin Guide.
The ancestral home of Harley-Davidson co-founder William C. Davidson was saved from demolition after devoted bikers and the Harley-Davidson Company raised over £300,000 to preserve the Scottish cottage; the restored home, once at risk of being sold to developers, will now be protected as a historic site celebrating the brand’s legacy.
A painting bought for £150 at a London estate sale was revealed to be an original Salvador Dalí, titled Vecchio Sultano, from a 1966 Arabian Nights series, and is now expected to sell for up to $37,000 at Cheffins Fine Art; the buyer verified its authenticity through Sotheby’s records and Dalí scholarship after spotting it at a low-profile auction.
Sienna, a shelter pit bull-lab mix with no formal training, made national headlines after instinctively detecting a man’s oncoming seizure during a Virginia adoption event—approaching him, placing her paw on his leg, and refusing to leave his side; the man, Josh Davis, had unknowingly skipped his epilepsy medication, and Sienna’s unprompted actions sparked viral attention, leading to a flood of adoption applications. Ultimately, she was adopted by Sharon Sweeney, who had already submitted an outstanding request, and her story has been celebrated as a powerful reminder of the intuition and value found in shelter dogs.
In Seldovia, Alaska, a 15-foot minke whale stranded on rocks for six hours was saved by a group of locals who formed a bucket brigade to keep it wet, using seawater and beach towels until the tide returned; believed to have been poisoned by an algal bloom, the whale likely would have died within 20 minutes without intervention, but thanks to the community’s quick and compassionate response, it survived and was later seen swimming freely in the area.
A Florida woman rescued an abandoned pit bull mix puppy named Lola after spotting her at the edge of the woods near her neighborhood, later finding her the perfect home with a retired couple grieving the loss of their own dog; after recovering from health issues and settling into a 20-acre farm, Lola now thrives with her new family—proving to be a healing force for both her rescuers and adopters in a heartwarming story of second chances.
Dozens of disabled Californians experienced the joy of sailing for the first time at a special event in Sacramento, hosted by the Challenged Athletes Foundation, using specially adapted boats and assistive sailing controls to help participants of all ages—some with no limb movement—enjoy the freedom and weightlessness of being on the water.
In an astonishing coincidence, the Denver Museum of Nature and Science discovered a 67-million-year-old dinosaur fossil directly beneath its own parking lot during drilling for a geothermal energy project—marking the city’s deepest and oldest fossil find, and suggesting plant-eating dinosaurs like Thesculosaurus once roamed the area now known as Denver.
While serving in Vietnam, Marine Cpl. Scott Harrison coped with trauma by imagining a peaceful carousel in a mountain meadow. Decades later, he brought that vision to life, hand-carving animals and restoring a century-old ride that became the Carousel of Happiness in Nederland, Colorado. Now a nonprofit, the carousel has brought joy to over a million visitors and helped Harrison manage his PTSD, turning his healing project into a source of happiness for others.
See you this evening.
— Aaron
