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🌎 With the Trump administration failing to send a representative, California Governor Gavin Newsom attended COP30 to represent the U.S., sign major deals, and project his state — one of the largest economies in the world — as a dependable clean-tech partner.

🪖 Hundreds of National Guard members that were dispatched to places like Portland, Oregon and Chicago, Illinois are leaving and returning to their home states.

✈️ A group of 17 transgender members of the U.S. Air Force is suing the U.S. government over the military’s unlawful revocation of their early retirement pensions and benefits.

Global health

Scientists unveiled a new, effective anti-malaria drug to help fight rising drug resistance

Drugmaker Novartis and the nonprofit Medicines for Malaria Venture unveiled a new antimalarial drug that’s as effective as existing treatments — b​​ut could help address rising resistance to those treatments.

Called GanLum, the drug was more than 97% effective at treating malaria in the final-stage trial results. While existing treatments work against malaria, there has been growing resistance to one of the key drugs used.

This new treatment option is the first major advancement in treating malaria in decades, and it works differently from previous antimalarial drugs.

Why is this good news? Malaria still kills more than 600,000 people annually, most of them children under five years old in sub-Saharan Africa. If drug resistance were to continue rising without a new treatment option, it would leave health care providers globally without another option.

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More Good News

​Giant holiday “giving machines” are in over 100 cities around the world, and they’ve already raised $50 million. The kiosks make donating easy and engaging, allowing users to pick a specific dollar amount or item to contribute to a specific charity, like spending $35 to give a solar lamp to a refugee family.

​A 20-year-old Kenyan student turned a local fundraiser into a nonprofit serving 600,000 meals a day to kids in school. Nutritionist and food scientist Wawira Njiru is directly tackling a huge hunger issue in Africa, where she says less than 20% of school kids receive daily meals across the continent.

​An app that saves surplus food launched discounted grocery bags with Whole Foods to combat food insecurity. Too Good To Go worked with the grocer to roll out seven new categories of bags as millions of U.S. consumers have been struggling with rising grocery prices and inflation.

​In a clinical trial, a tiny drug-releasing implant wiped out bladder cancer in 82% of patients. Traditionally, bladder cancer patients “have had very limited treatment options,” and the new therapy is “the most effective one reported to date for the most common form of bladder cancer.”

​A large-scale MIT study found several targets for a new tuberculosis vaccine. Using these antigens, researchers plan to develop vaccine candidates that they hope would stimulate a strong immune response against the world’s deadliest disease.

Economics

What if every teen graduated with $1K and an investment portfolio? These states are making that a reality

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good progress

Rapid expansion of renewable energy has put the world way ahead of the curve to triple capacity by 2030

At COP28 in 2023, over 130 governments pledged to triple the world’s existing renewable energy capacity to 11 terawatts by 2030 — since then, deployment has skyrocketed.

To achieve a tripling, renewables additions needed to increase by 21% every year, but additions have actually averaged 29% annually from 2023 to 2025.

As a result, the world is already way ahead of the curve to achieve triple capacity — additions would only need to rise by 12% annually to still achieve it.

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More Good bits

🥦 There’s no shame in getting SNAP benefits.

😍 Would gladly be a fifth wheel in this scenario. (Instagram)

🚌 The bike bus is growing!

🚆 Engineers are working on the logistics of electrifying trains.

🛻 Will EVs drain the grid? Nope, they’ll fix it.

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— Megan