Today's good news

October 29, 2026

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Cedar Rapids, Iowa

A fifth grader helps her bus driver

When driver Christine Houston could not catch her breath on

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Delray Beach, Florida

A lightning survivor thanks his rescuers

Fourteen-year-old Kevin Sosa, struck by lightning at a soccer game

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Pine Ridge Reservation

50 bison return to Pine Ridge

Close to 300 people watched Thunder Valley CDC release 50

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Sleeping Bear Dunes

A record year for piping plovers

The endangered Great Lakes piping plover posted a fifth straight

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Sacramento, California

A first HIV-to-HIV kidney transplant

UC Davis Transplant Center gave William Anderson, who has HIV,

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