Every other week, we bring you only good news from U.S. politics and our communities to remind you that it’s worth showing up and speaking up for a better, kinder nation.
- A SCOTUS ruling may make it easier for victims of police shootings to prove in court when officers use unlawful excessive force.
- The FDA approves the first at-home HPV test as an alternative to in-office Pap tests.
- Following a lawsuit brought by farmers and environmental groups, the USDA will restore to its official website information about climate change that was removed when the current president took office.
- AL: A federal court rules that the state must abandon an unconstitutional legislative map intentionally drawn to dilute Black communities’ votes.
- CO enacts the Freedom from Intimidation in Elections Act, which will allow voters, election officials, and election workers to file suit against anyone who threatens or attempts to coerce them.
- FL: A former congressional candidate faces legal consequences for threatening his primary opponent in 2021.
- MO raises the legal age of marriage to 18, prohibits the use of nondisclosure agreements in child sexual abuse cases, and protects the assets of foster children inherited from deceased parents.
- NJ’s Attorney General Matt Platkin sues the messaging app Discord for failing to appropriately protect underage users.
- NY’s fiscal year 2026 budget includes free school meals for all of the state’s students as well as checks for residents intended to offset the costs of inflation.
- The community of Johnson, VT works together to relocate their historic public library out of a flood zone––building and all.
- Boston, MA will utilize ranked-choice voting for local elections.
- Young Pittsburgh voters can meet with mayoral primary candidates through the Allegheny Youth Vote Coalition’s civic engagement program.
- A Green Bay, WI nonprofit rescues over 7,000 pounds of food leftover from an NFL Draft event to provide food to local families in need.
- Former USAID worker Caitlin Tulloch and her team create a service that matches philanthropic donors with humanitarian aid programs that were abruptly defunded by the administration.
- A global survey of 130,000 people across 125 countries finds that 89% of people want their national government to do more to reverse climate change.
- Scientists at Montana State University build self-repairing bricks out of fungus as a sustainable alternative to concrete.
- Researchers develop a gel that “smells” good to coral and could potentially boost reef regeneration by enticing coral organisms to attach and grow in specific areas.
- Conservationists observe a record number of a rare ocelot species in a TX wildlife refuge.
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