Here are this week’s uplifting headlines.
1-5 Uplifting Headlines of the Week
1. FDA plans to allow more gay, bisexual men to donate blood. – Source
2. LeVar Burton to be honored with Lifetime Achievement honors at Children’s & Family Emmy Awards. – Source
3. Senate passes landmark Respect for Marriage Act in a bipartisan vote. The Senate approved historic legislation that provides federal protections for same-sex marriages, moving the measure closer to President Biden’s desk for his signature in the final weeks of the Democratic-controlled Congress. – Source
4. Toledo Zoo welcomes twin polar bear cubs. – Source
5. New Mexico voted a childcare guarantee into its constitution. For one mom, it means her 8-year-old doesn’t worry about money anymore. – Source
6-10 Uplifting Headlines of the Week
6. Golden bandicoots ‘breeding rapidly’ in the NSW outback 100 years after becoming locally extinct. – Source
7. A Philadelphia woman collects thousands of stuffed animals and brings them to seniors who are in need of a Christmas gift. – Source
8. Black rhino populations are starting to thrive in Zimbabwe for the first time in decades, experts say. – Source
9. A man in Kansas is crediting his dog with saving his life by waking him up after a fire broke out in his home. – Source
10. FDA change ushers in cheaper, easier-to-get hearing aids. – Source
11-15 Uplifting Headlines of the Week
11. 150 sea turtles saved from the cold. An aquarium in Boston has been treating “cold-stunned” sea turtles stranded on US beaches. – Source
12. More than half of all young children statewide ages 0-5 are enrolled in the Imagination Library of Ohio program, per the governor’s office. That’s more than 360,000 Ohio children in total, each receiving “The Little Engine That Could” and other popular books in the mail for free every month. – Source
13. ‘No K-pop on a dead planet’: Meet the K-pop stans taking on the climate crisis. – Source
14. Dominican sugar imports tied to forced labor were rejected by the US. – Source
15. Queensland’s Indigenous women rangers given Earth shot prize for protecting Great Barrier Reef | The group was awarded $1.8m and praised as an ‘inspiring women led program’ using First Nations knowledge to protect land and sea. – Source
