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Image Courtesy: American Humane Hero Dog A world you cannot even see is a scary thought: when the familiar becomes unfamiliar. A lot of people with vision disabilities or blindness struggle with the mundane tasks of everyday life that we take for granted: stepping off a pavement, finding a staircase, moving through a crowded station…

Thousands of Christmas trees are discarded every year once the festive season ends, but in southern Illinois, hundreds of them have found a second purpose beneath the water. A conservation project at Rend Lake has given 875 used trees a new lease of life, turning them into underwater shelters designed to support fish populations and…

Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce (Getty Images) Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce donated a combined $26 million to 20 charitable organisations across the United States in 2026, supporting causes ranging from hunger relief and children’s healthcare to education, music programmes and animal welfare. The contributions benefited organisations in several parts of the country, including New…

A former Manhattan fire station that has found a second life as a luxury townhouse, complete with an underground jazz club, has sold for $19 million. Located at 78 Morton Street in New York’s West Village, the historic property dates back to 1864 and once served as a base for a volunteer firefighting company. The…

In 1990, Richard Phillip Eckert and Virginia Eckert Garrett donated a cave in Mason County, Texas, to The Nature Conservancy in honour of their father and grandfather. The gift ensured the bats would be permanently protected. According to the Conservancy, about four million female Mexican free-tailed bats now use the Eckert James River Bat Cave…

Vedant ThakkerPhoto credit: https://oaklandfiresafecouncil.org/ Vedant Thakker was 16 years old when a brush fire in the hills above his Fremont neighborhood made wildfire risk feel personal. The California high school student later built Red Flag Check, a free website and app that lets people enter an address and see whether they are inside a National…

Noah Duckett and Wyatt Ehrhardt started their food drive in 2024, the same year they finished high school. Two years later, the initiative they began in a Wisconsin town has grown into a national network and earned one of the most prestigious youth honours in the world. Duckett and Ehrhardt, both now college sophomores, have…

A Florida divorce case involving a teacher who reduced her pay from about $49,450 to $20,000 has been sent back for a new review of alimony, child support and parenting arrangements. In Rebecca Zalkin v. Jeffrey Zalkin, the Fourth District Court of Appeal found that the Broward County trial court failed to make legally required…

Unmarried couples cannot legally adopt a child together under North Dakota law, the state’s Supreme Court has ruled. The decision blocks a joint adoption request by a grandmother and her partner, who have cared for her grandson since he was four months old. The ruling was issued on Friday, 6 November 2026. It answered a…

Trump’s golf course redevelopment faces scrutiny over environmental safeguards, public land and compliance with judicial orders. A dispute over a public golf course in the heart of Washington DC has taken an unexpected turn, moving beyond questions of landscaping and redevelopment to the conduct of the federal government itself. What began as a legal challenge…