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April 8, 2024

College Students Raise $30K To Help Security Guard Visit Family in Nigeria

Friends are often cherished as the family you choose. The heartwarming friendship between students living in Raymond Hall at Providence College, a Catholic college in Rhode Island, and the building's security guard, James Mogaji, is no exception. A group of students who have grown close with Mogaji discovered that the school employee had not returned to Nigeria to see his family in 11 years. This stunned the students and prompted them to take action.

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April 7, 2024

Korean Food Blogger Sarah Ahn Shares Impact of Not Speaking Her Parents’ Language Fluently

According to Pew Research Center, only four out of 10 second-generation Asian Americans say they can speak their parents’ native...

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April 5, 2024

Japanese Man Who Lost His Wife in 2011 Tsunami Learned to Dive to Look for Her in the Ocean

In March 2011, a devastating earthquake and tsunami struck Japan.

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April 5, 2024

105-Year-Old Solar Eclipse Chaser Is Ready To Watch His 13th Eclipse

A man named Laverne Biser has already done what many people would consider impossible. The Fort Worth resident, who was born less than 10 years after the Titanic sunk, has lived to be over 100 years old.

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April 3, 2024

Restaurant Lets Customers “Pay What They Can” To Help Support the Local Community

There's a restaurant in the UK called The Long Table that has been changing the way we think of dining...

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March 29, 2024

World Happiness Report Releases 2024 List of “Happiest Countries in the World” and Finland Is #1 Again

On a daily basis, we often find ourselves holding onto happiness.

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March 29, 2024

Jasmin Paris Becomes First Woman to Ever Complete Barkley Marathons’ 100-Mile Race

Since the Barkley Marathons started in 1989, over 1,000 ultramarathoners have entered, but only 20 people have ever finished within the 60-hour time limit—and they were all men. But on March 22, 2024, Jasmin Paris, a 40-year-old senior veterinary lecturer at the University of Edinburgh, made history for being the first woman to finish the race.

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March 28, 2024

25-Year-Old Announces Own Death From Cancer in Heartfelt Final Message That Inspires Gratitude

Happiness, heartbreak, and everything in between is stitched together to create the fabric of our lives.

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March 25, 2024

Yurok Becomes First Tribe to Co-Manage Land With National Park Service

Towering Redwood trees cover much of what is now northern California.

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March 25, 2024

Powerful Ad Challenges Assumptions About People With Down Syndrome

According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, about 6,000 babies are born with Down syndrome in the U.S each year. Although the outlook for people with this condition has improved drastically over the last few decades, the assumptions around what they can and can't do continue to hamper their quality of life.

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