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🪧 Saturday’s third installment of the “No Kings” nationwide protest has 3,000 community events planned in all 50 states and every U.S. congressional district, with over 7 million people expected to attend.
📰 In a landmark decision, a New Mexico jury determined that Meta knowingly harmed children’s mental health and concealed what it knew about child sexual exploitation on its social media platforms.
Neighbors used a tractor to save a 98-year-old Hawaiian woman from her flooding home
The floods have swept homes from their foundations, littered beaches with debris, and covered entire neighborhoods in a thick, volcanic mud. No deaths have been reported, but hundreds have been rescued from their homes.
That includes a 98-year-old woman, who neighbors carefully loaded into the bucket of a tractor as her home was flooding around her.
The rescue was captured in a now-viral video that stopped thousands in their tracks, with comments saying things like, “This is what happens when people move with heart. No waiting, no division, no ego; just love in action.”
Why is this good news?The worst flooding to hit Hawaii in two decades has swept homes from their foundations, littered beaches with debris, covered entire neighborhoods in thick mud, forced thousands to leave their homes, and knocked out power across the islands. So many people need help and relief — and everyday helpers are stepping up to take care of each other.
Cigarette smoking among U.S. adults has dropped to a record low 9.9%
In 2024, the U.S. adult smoking rate fell below 10%. In 1964, smoking in adults hovered at 42% and then began declining after major public health campaigns discouraged the habit.
The steady reduction of smoking is considered one of the most significant public health successes in recent history, marking a historic low once thought impossible.
That decline has also accelerated in recent years, largely driven by younger generations who are less likely to start smoking, and it comes with major health gains. A 2025 report from the American Cancer Society estimated that reduced smoking resulted in nearly four million averted deaths from lung cancer between 1970 and 2022.
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