The rocker's school visit spotlighted a Rock Hall push for public school music, with $55,000 in band instruments due at a neighboring school in 2027.
Downey, California, USA · · 2 min read
Five tips from Investor.gov cover credit cards, budgets, 401(k)s and scams, and the core idea fits on a sticky note: invest regularly, then give it time.
United States · · 3 min read
Founded in Kansas City in 2023, The Kindness Mob drowns out online pile-ons with sincere compliments, and its targets usually aren't told who sent them.
Kansas City, Missouri, USA · · 3 min read
Dale has hand-built a 62-foot steel boat in his Texas front yard since 1987. Now about 1,640 donors are helping pay to finish it and get it down a steep hill.
Mineral Wells, Texas, USA · · 2 min read
Yle's Pentulive is back for a sixth season, putting six puppies and their mother on camera around the clock just as Finland's long winter darkness sets in.
Finland · · 2 min read
A rescuer says suburban echidnas are usually headed somewhere specific, and the kindest move is often to wait up to an hour and let them carry on.
Adelaide, South Australia, Australia · · 3 min read
Who Gives a Cluck buys laying hens from a caged egg farm before they're culled, checks their health and finds them adopters or a sanctuary.
Mullumbimby, New South Wales, Australia · · 2 min read
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A survey of 593 professionals across India linked digital money know-how to more confidence, better habits and greater financial well-being.
India · · 2 min read
A Jacksonville woman's steady 18-month climb out of credit card debt, plus one planner's three-step plan for anyone using plastic to cover the basics.
Jacksonville, Florida, USA · · 2 min read
The CFPB's free Money as You Grow guide for ages 6 to 12 suggests ideas from a 10 percent saving habit to a 25-cent match for every dollar saved.
United States · · 3 min read
For a decade, K9 Kuddles has brought dogs to stressed Dunedin students. Its organizer is moving away, so the pack needs a new coordinator and more dogs.
Dunedin, New Zealand · · 1 min read
The US seized and sold Yahya Jammeh's Potomac house, and about $2.5 million has now reached a fund that can only pay victims of his 22-year rule.
Banjul, The Gambia · · 2 min read
Ebro Ahmed ran onto a moving bus after its driver had a medical emergency and brought it to a stop. None of the middle schoolers aboard were hurt.
St. Paul, Minnesota, USA · · 2 min read
The retired teacher, held on mercenary charges his family and US officials call false, was the last American in Russia the US designated as wrongfully detained.
St. Petersburg, Russia · · 2 min read
Rhinoceros Bob lifts. Sam the Ninja Cowboy believes. Linda the Moth has seen it all, and Nana Deadlift is 94. A strange little comic, new every night at midnight.
Rescued near Point Lay, Alaska, the 220-pound calf can't return to the wild, so he is now in quarantine at SeaWorld Orlando before meeting its walruses.
Point Lay, Alaska / Orlando, Florida, USA · · 3 min read
Mātātā had gone unrecorded at Parangarehu Lakes for about 70 years, and iwi and the council credit predator control and wetland care for the return.
Wellington, New Zealand · · 2 min read
Yle's Pentulive, now in its sixth season, follows Hilkka and her six newborn puppies around the clock and is racking up more views than Finland has people.
Finland · · 2 min read
In a Berkeley trial of 497 adults, people taught habit tools practiced more and reported more self-compassion over six months, though the effects were small.
Berkeley, United States · · 3 min read
Salima Bouayad Agha trained for three years, outlasted three cancellations and a floating pallet, and raised money for Parkinson's research along the way.
Dover, England to Sangatte, France · · 2 min read
The NHS's free guide, built on a 2008 evidence review, suggests connecting, moving, learning, giving and noticing. No hours at the gym or exams required.
United Kingdom · · 3 min read
Halnaker Hill Farm swapped four decades of wheat for wildflowers. Surveyors have now logged 28 butterfly species, including two nationally important newcomers.
Halnaker, West Sussex, England, UK · · 2 min read
Chiricahua, a field of volcanic rock spires in southeastern Arizona, is the first new national park since 2020 and the state's fourth.
Willcox, Cochise County, Arizona, USA · · 2 min read
A small Peruvian pilot paid 211 Indigenous people a modest basic income, and hunger eased and replanting grew, though the forest itself wasn't measured.
Junín Province, Peru · · 3 min read
In colonies of up to 200 bats, heart monitors showed four Japanese house bat mothers reacting to their own pups' calls but not to other pups'.
Kyotanabe, Kyoto, Japan · · 3 min read
A sanctuary marking 25 years of restoration adds two young male kākāpō to a trial testing whether fenced mainland forest can house a growing population.
Maungatautari, Waikato, New Zealand · · 3 min read
A nature writer's count of 13 great egrets at Cambridgeshire's Ouse Fen shows how far the species has come, and how a gravel quarry is becoming wetland.
Ouse Fen, Cambridgeshire, England, UK · · 2 min read
The days-old male, J65, shows no signs of health issues so far and brings the endangered Southern Resident orcas to 77, though the first year is hard.
Salish Sea, Washington / British Columbia · · 2 min read
Tagged humpbacks in Monterey Bay lunged more often with sea lions nearby, and the sea lions seem to collect the fish that slip through.
Monterey Bay, California, United States · · 3 min read
A young male waterbuck has come through his vulnerable early months at an Israeli safari park. The heart on his nose is a little everyday miracle his whole species shares.
Ramat Gan, Israel · · 2 min read
Keepers played careful matchmaker for Martina and Jeffrey, and now there's a bright green egg, though the zoo doesn't yet know if it's fertile.
Adelaide, Australia · · 2 min read
A decade of rescue records shows the Bangka slow loris never left its island, though scientists say it remains critically endangered and needs protection.
Bangka Island, Indonesia · · 4 min read
A crew in South Australia lifted a waterlogged kangaroo through the boat's sea door, and one diver from the Galapagos met his first-ever roo.
Port Lincoln, South Australia, Australia · · 1 min read
