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🏥 The World Health Organization declared that the hantavirus outbreak ​linked to a cruise ⁠ship is over, with its last patient finishing quarantine.

📹 Citing digital privacy rights, the Supreme Court ruled that police can’t tap into giant tech-firm databases to see who was near the scene of a crime without stronger constitutional protections.

💒 Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce kicked off their wedding weekend by donating $26 million to food banks, animal welfare organizations, and children’s hospitals.

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U.S. murder rate approaches a record low

As the nation celebrates its 250th anniversary, the United States is on track for its lowest recorded murder rate since the FBI began collecting comparable data in 1960.

According to early data from crime analyst Jeff Asher, who pooled data from about 600 police agencies, murders dropped 18.7% in the first four months of this year compared to the same period last year. Additionally, all violent crime has dropped 6.4%.

Even better: This drop comes after a brief spike during the COVID-19 pandemic, a trend that has since reversed dramatically. Officials point to a combination of factors for the decline, including community-based violence intervention programs and improved emergency medical care.

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​Michigan lawmakers unanimously passed a bill to let children run lemonade stands without permits or fees. Under the new law, minors can make up to $5,000 a year with their temporary food stands.

​Tens of thousands of free toothbrushes and tubes of toothpaste will be given out to children in Liverpool to tackle tooth decay. Tooth decay “is a disease of inequality” and this is part of a five-year government plan to tackle the problem nationally by donating kits to under-resourced areas in England.

​Billionaire philanthropist Mackenzie Scott’s philanthropy on the African continent has now surpassed $1.5 billion. Scott’s funding in Africa increased in 2025, and now rivals the annual budgets of some of the world’s largest development banks for investment on the continent.

​An ocean conference garnered 320 new commitments worth $6.4 billion to invest in ocean conservation, climate resilience, and more. More than 100 governments, businesses, and civil society organisations announced the commitments before an audience of more than 5,000 participants at the 11th Our Ocean Conference, hosted for the first time on the African continent.

​Nine white rhino females were transported to Mozambique’s Zinave National Park, rounding out the first viable white rhino breeding population in decades. Conservationists say the growing population could help restore rhinos to other parks across Mozambique after a century of decline.

​Church members are coming together to wipe out medical debt for their neighbors in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Since the Trinity Moravian Church congregation began its Debt Jubilee Project in 2002, they have relieved more than $2.2 million in debt.

Interesting story

This giant snail is the size of a croissant. Conservationists are banding together to save it from extinction

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Climate

Electric vehicle sales are growing much faster than expected worldwide

In six years, sales of electric vehicles have risen tenfold, with around 21 million EVs sold worldwide in 2025 alone, representing 25% of new car sales — that figure was just 1% in 2019.

By May of this year, 63% of new cars sold were EVs, and of the 1.4 billion cars currently on the road, 85 million are electric.

While China and Europe are leading the way for EV sales, it’s growing rapidly in other parts of the world, too, though has been relatively stagnant in the United States. These statistics do not factor in hybrid-electric vehicles.

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More Good bits

🌈 The Stonewall National Museum is expanding.

🍼 No spilled milk here. Every extra drop goes to NICU babies.

🎾 Naomi Osaka honored her Japanese heritage on the court.

🏃‍♀️ A pickle-loving runner is helping kids go to grief camp. (Reels)

🌲 Volunteers are saving a Scottish rainforest by collecting 11M seeds.

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