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Morty wasn't always able to spend his days playing games – but now, he enjoys a life of luxury challenging his owner to Jenga competitions. The post Watch This Rescue Rabbit Reign as the Furry Champ of Jenga appeared first on Good News Network.

Tribal casinos in the US may seem a more natural fit, after hearing about new research showing that Native Americans were making dice for gaming thousands of years before anyone else in the world. Evidence revealed that the earliest known dice in human history were made and used by hunter-gatherers on the western Great Plains […] The post Native Americans Were Making Dice and Gaming Thousands of Years Before Anyone Else appeared first on Good News Network.

Our partner Rob Brezsny, whose latest book is Astrology Is Real: Revelations from My Life as an Oracle, provides his weekly wisdom to enlighten our thinking and motivate our mood. Rob’s Free Will Astrology, is a syndicated weekly column appearing in over a hundred publications. He is also the author of Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: […] The post Your Weekly Horoscope – ‘Free Will Astrology’ by Rob Brezsny appeared first on Good News Network.

China, the world’s largest developing country with a population of more than 1.4 billion, has increasingly positioned itself as a key actor in global poverty reduction. By exporting its poverty reduction strategies to some of the world’s most impoverished countries, it has reduced the struggles that many face. While these initiatives have delivered tangible economic […] The post The Role China Is Playing In Alleviating Poverty in Cambodia appeared first on The Borgen Project.

51 years ago today, Microsoft was founded as a partnership between childhood friends and computer whiz-kids Bill Gates and Paul Allen. The company became the largest seller of software in the world, developing MS-DOS for early IBM PCs, and later, Windows, and Microsoft Office. Its market capitalization has topped $1 trillion, and through various acquisitions […] The post Good News in History, April 4 appeared first on Good News Network.

Barry Gibb's version sounds completely different. The post 19 years after writing it, the Bee Gees finally performed ‘Grease’ for the first time ever appeared first on Upworthy.

“Who’s the real mom?” The post Lesbian couple answers the most common questions they get from strangers about having a baby appeared first on Upworthy.

But some say the dad's words went way too far. The post Gay dad has a forceful response to a 7-year-old who called gay people ‘the devil’ appeared first on Upworthy.

“That is a way different crisis." The post Comedian nails why the Millennial midlife crisis is unique and how to deal with it appeared first on Upworthy.

Tourists who partake of the free ferry ride to Staten Island should delay getting right back on the boat to Manhattan, and instead take a short walk outside to the National Lighthouse Museum. Located just southeast of the ferry terminal, the Lighthouse Museum is rather modest in stature, occupying a small building on what was once the United States Lighthouse Service General Depot. During the 19th and early 20th centuries, the depot was responsible for supplying all of the lighthouses in the US Lighthouse Service's third district, stretching from Albany to the Massachusetts border and down to Sandy Hook. As advances in technology made lighthouses largely obsolete, the depot eventually shut down by 1965.  The buildings now stand empty, with the only occupant being the museum inside Building 11, the former foundry. But the museum has big plans to eventually relocate to the much larger Building 10 next door, once the necessary amount of funds is acquired. For now you can visit the museum'

Episode Description: This week starts with casino Easter eggs and a prom-posal, because apparently Good Friday is full of surprises. Then Arielle and Karissa get into the actual news: a teenager built a working microplastic filter in her garage, Mexico’s monarch butterflies had their best winter in nearly a decade, and a $375 million jury […] The post Podcast Transcript April 3, 2026—Good Friday good news: speed friending, fire fungi, and the science of sleep first appeared on The Optimist Daily: Making Solutions the News.

Nathan Yuill was diagnosed as a child with stage-4 non-Hodgkin lymphoma, but the good news is that he’s two treatment courses away from what is anticipated to be a bell-ringing remission announcement. But before his time in Providence Children’s Hospital came to an end, 12-year-old Yuill raised $2,000 to give almost every child there a […] The post Young Boy with Cancer Delivers 124 Gorgeous Easter Baskets to Kids in Hospitals After Fundraising $2,000 appeared first on Good News Network.

A Florida teen will have quite the story for his friends to chew on when they all meet back in class after spring break. 16-year-old Aiden Andrews found the 6-inch-long tooth of an ancient shark known as a megalodon while diving near Sarasota. This was the largest shark species in history, and is believed to […] The post Teen Finds 6-Inch Megalodon Tooth Millions of Years Old While Diving for Fossils on Florida Coast appeared first on Good News Network.

A ‘breakthrough’ for migratory species, Africa’s road safety ‘milestone’ and a quantum leap for solar, plus more The post What went right this week: the good news that matters appeared first on Positive News.

It's better to be interested than interesting. The post Expert shares the one small habit that makes you instantly likable appeared first on Upworthy.