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.
Boy Whose IQ is the Same as Einstein Joins Mensa to Make Some Friends
After receiving the same IQ score as Einstein and Stephen Hawking on a test, a young immigrant to the UK joined a pretty cool club to make new friends. Mensa is an international group for high-IQ individuals founded in 1947. The group welcomes children and adults in...
Bride Donates $15,000 Reception to Special Needs Families After Calling off Her Wedding
In the true definition of a worst-case scenario, an unnamed California bride-to-be is reported to have called off her entire non-refundable wedding reception worth $15,000, after learning something about her fiance. But Fox News details that she took the disaster and...
Japan Moon Lander Comes Back to Life After Wonky Angle for its Solar Panel, but ‘Unprecedented Pinpoint Landing’
It’s a case of five alive for the Japanese space program, when their craft, which was set to make them the fifth nation to land on the Moon, seemed to have been lost after a wonky landing. Landing on its side with its solar panels pointing away from the Sun, the small...
Matchmaking ‘Magic’ at Philly’s Oldest Bar May Lead You to Find the Love of Your Life–Like Hundreds of Others
There is a bit of mating magic afoot at Philadelphia’s oldest tavern, one of the oldest in the United States. Hundreds of couples have met and gotten engaged—and even married—at McGillin’s Olde Ale House since it was established in 1860. That’s more than anywhere else...
11-Year-Old Moroccan Boy Hears for the First Time Thanks to Experimental Gene Therapy in Philadelphia
At the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), an 11-year-old boy from Morocco is hearing the world for the very first time thanks to a revolutionary new genetic therapy that has cured his deafness. While the gene involved is quite rare, the milestone represents a...
Teen Who Was Told He’d Never Walk with Cerebral Palsy Just Took 1st Place in Bodybuilding Competition
Hunter Moore is just like any other teen athlete. He loves to play sports, made the varsity team, and doesn’t mind throwing up a few gym selfies on his Instagram. “It’s all genetics, bro,” he says laughingly while pumping his nearly 20-inch bicep. The genetics, in...
White House Issues Unprecedented Pardons After FDA Finds Cannabis to Be More Like Tylenol Than Heroin
On Friday, January 20th, the federal government waved the white flag in the war on drugs as it regards the cannabis plant. President Biden issued presidential pardons to any American or lawful permanent resident who has a conviction of cannabis possession on their...
100-Year-old Walks Around Garden 40,000 Times to Raise Money for Charity
A 100-year-old Second World War veteran has walked hundreds of miles around his garden to raise money for charity—but no, you didn’t stumble upon a four-year-old news story, Lance Corporal Harold Jones laps his back garden 30 times every day no matter the weather, and...
Stranger on Airplane Quickly Crochets Beanie for Baby Mesmerized by the Yarn in Motion Across the Aisle
Kelly and Jake were nervous about taking their 5-month-old daughter on an airplane, as most new parents would be. Flying from New Jersey to Mexico isn’t a short haul, and they weren’t sure what to expect. But it was on the flight home that the unexpected arose, when...
