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Flint’s neonatal mortality rate fell from 10 to 5 deaths per 1,000 live births after the city introduced unconditional cash support during pregnancy and infancy. Rates elsewhere in Michigan remained stable, although the comparison alone cannot establish that the payments caused the improvement.
Source: Science News
Read the original story →Saria, 40, credits Fight Forward’s free boxing programme with helping her rebuild her confidence and self-worth and leave an abusive relationship. Now she is preparing to join an all-female fight night in London that aims to fund places for more survivors.
Source: Positive News
Read the original story →More than 400 people were able to leave Russian-occupied Oleshky during a brief local ceasefire, with WFP and Ukrainian partner Iskra Dobra providing hot meals on arrival. The evacuation shows what a limited humanitarian opening can achieve, though sustained access remains uncertain.
Source: UN News - Global perspective Human stories
Read the original story →BridgeUSA has grown from one chapter in 2017 to 146, creating spaces where students explain opposing political beliefs and listen without needing to agree. At the University of Michigan, that approach meant welcoming a student who asked to wear a MAGA hat during a discussion about free speech.
Source: Reasons to be Cheerful
Read the original story →A Dutch appeals court upheld an order requiring Meta to let Facebook and Instagram users in the Netherlands make chronological, non-algorithmic feeds their default. MP Barbara Kathmann is now proposing broader legislation targeting manipulative app designs, including infinite scroll, though the bill is not law.
Source: Dutch News
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