Inspiring News
From the Good News Network
Sometimes the news can show the darker side of local and world events. But there is so much more! We found the Good News Network online and find their writing and focus to align well with our virtues and beliefs. We have included some excerpts below borrowed from their site. The link above with direct you to their site for further information and to subscribe directly.
Viral Photo of Teen Working Night of Graduation Helps Raise $20k for College
A Georgia woman was so blown away by the work ethic of a teen who clocked in for a late evening shift at Burger King just after graduating high school, she decided to help with his college tuition. Setting up a GoFundMe to tell the youth’s story, it raised $20,000 in...
Ancient Tombs More Than 3,000 Years Old Unearthed in Egypt’s Luxor
The tombs of three ancient Egyptian officials have been discovered in Luxor, the Egyptian government has stated, marking yet another discovery from the famous city on the Nile. In February, the tomb of pharaoh Thutmose II was found not far from the Dra’Abu El Naga, an...
NBA’s Warriors Host Unique Sneaker Repair Clinic Teaching Youth How to Refresh Old Kicks
Educating and encouraging people to reduce their waste footprint doesn’t always have to be done through fear or social pressure, it can be fun and empowering as well. That’s what the SoleSpace Lab in Oakland is doing—reducing the amount of waste from the footwear...
Amateur Archaeologists Unearth a Winged Goddess Right at Hadrian’s Wall
Two amateur English archeologists made a major find at a famous site in Britain when they turned up a carved relief of the winged goddess of victory. Believed to have been part of a much larger ornament, the pair found it during their 21st year of volunteer...
Kurdish Militant Group Agrees to Swap Guns for Ballots and End 40-year Insurgency with Turkey
A Kurdish militant group has officially agreed to disband and halt a 40-year insurgency. Called the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or the PKK, the decision came in early May following the organization’s 12th Party Congress, in which it was determined that the quest for...
Grandmother Has Miracle Recovery From Brain Bleed After Doctors Said 5 Times She Wouldn’t Survive
A grandmother who suffered a deadly brain bleed has made a miracle recovery—after doctors told the family five times that she wouldn’t survive. Millie Beckett ended up in a coma for three weeks after the massive hemorrhage, but her devoted husband never left her...
Woman Stunned to See Grandparent’s Wartime Locket on Facebook After Stranger Buys it in Thrift Shop to Help Find Owner
From Canada comes the story of a lost family heirloom finding its way home in the most bizarre series of circumstances. Kelly Brown, a member of the Aurora post of the Royal Canadian Legion, sat at her home last week in shock: staring at what appeared to be a...
Stray Dog Rescued from the Streets Visits Dozens of Countries with Woman Who ‘never liked dogs’
A woman who “never liked dogs” has been walking and biking around the world with a street dog that she found neglected and covered in fleas. An Australian cattle dog, ‘Butch’ must now be among the most well-traveled dogs on the planet, having been taken in by a woman...
Students Decipher Title of Burnt Scroll from the Famous Library Buried by Vesuvius–Called ‘On Vices’
The title of a 2,000-year-old Greek philosophical text has been read by computer scientists using AI to study scrolls buried by the eruption of Vesuvius. On Vices was written by Philodemus, a Greek philosopher who lived at Pompeii nearly 200 years before Vesuvius’...
