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🗳️ Democrat Scott Colom won the U.S. Senate race in Mississippi, becoming the first Black senator elected from the state in more than 140 years, since post-Civil War Reconstruction.

🥜 Former President Jimmy Carter’s family farm in Georgia was sold to a conservation group, which plans to preserve the land and eventually open it to the public.

🩺 Barbie honored Nebraska native Dr. Susan La Flesche Picotte, the first Native American woman in the United States to earn a medical degree, with a new doll in its Inspiring Women series.

Indigenous people

An Indigenous-led group just received a 120-acre plot of land taken from Native Americans over 400 years ago

More than 400 years ago, the Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower met the local Nauset Native American tribe on Cape Cod Bay in Massachusetts. Now, a 120-acre plot of land overlooking that meeting spot was transferred to the Native Land Conservancy.

The milestone comes after years of work from Indigenous leaders, conservationists, and environmentalists to transfer the land from the Nature Conservancy to the Indigenous-led group as part of the nationwide #LandBack effort.

Historians say the land’s Indigenous roots trace back tens of thousands of years. The Nauset are part of the Wampanoag Nation, which helped the Pilgrims survive their first Thanksgiving.

Why is this good news? There is increasing pressure to develop the little space that’s left of Cape Cod’s open land. Now, it’s in the hands of the Native Land Conservancy, which, among other stewardship initiatives, plans to preserve the habitat on the property for sea turtles that nest in the marsh grasses.

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​Italy created a $2.2M fund to rescue dogs from fighting rings, and prepare them for “the happiest years of their life.” The government-backed fund supports shelters and rehabilitation facilities that provide the care and behavioral training necessary to re-home traumatized dogs.

​Minnesota announces “effective end” to veteran homelessness, achieving decades-long goal. State officials said Ramsey County became the final community needed to effectively end veteran homelessness statewide, announcing the milestone on Tuesday.

​In a “hugely significant milestone,” a golden eagle chick has fledged from a nest on a grouse moor in the U.K. Beaky Junior is one of five golden eagles successfully fledged in southern Scotland this year as part of a conservation effort to restore the species.

​NHS patients will be offered blood tests designed to check for multiple cancers at once in some surgeries in England. The aim is to detect hard-to-diagnose abdominal cancers, including liver, ovarian and pancreatic cancer, much sooner. These cancers are often found only after they have spread.

​Thanks to a “long-term approach to nature recovery,” wildlife are thriving at a UK estate despite a drought. A country house and farming estate in one of England's driest and most nature-depleted areas has an “abundance” of wildlife with more than 5,000 species recorded.

Environment

This farm spent $100K a year to keep 10,000 gophers at bay. Then they realized coyotes could do the work for them

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good progress

Electric trucks made up 50% of China’s heavy truck sales in September

In September, a total of 33,100 electric big rigs were sold in China, representing just over half of all heavy trucks sold that month and a 37% increase from a year ago.

The increase coincided with declining demand for diesel, which is on track to fall by about 230,000 barrels per day in 2026.

In 2024, new-energy vehicles made up 13.6% of heavy trucks sold in China. In 2025, sales tripled to a 28.9% share, and now, just two years later, it’s already over half of sales.

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More Good bits

🏳️‍🌈 The “internet’s mom” is helping LGBTQ+ teens around the world.

🚑 Electric aviation can bring speedy, life-saving care.

🪪 The Bureau needs you and your imagination. (Reels)

👠 Pattie just launched a 500-mile fundraising hike … in drag! (Threads)

☀️ A solar farm loves to meet a cranberry bog!

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