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Teen hikers who made a gurney to carry an injured hiker for hours, a teacher who adopted a foster child, and a police officer who ran into an apartment fire to save a mother and two kids.

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A 10-year-old buys a 3D printer by saving allowance, grows his small business, partners with a local store, and earns about $1,500 profit; a high school senior born premature returns to volunteer in the same NICU where she was cared for and plans to become a physician; and three teens help a 65-year-old in distress by calling 911 and staying with him until responders arrive.

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An ultrarunner who overcame an eating disorder and won the Cocodona 250 outright while breaking the course record; a 76-year-old pursuing a fifth Six Star Medal after starting marathons at 50 and running despite a heart condition; and Team Impact, a nonprofit matching thousands of seriously ill or disabled kids with college teams for support and belonging.

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A nonprofit and used-book retailer distributing 25,000 free books to New York and Long Island communities, record-breaking London Marathon performances that also raised major charity funds, and a driver rescuing a toddler from a busy intersection.

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A 14-year-old cancer survivor used a Make-A-Wish to distribute supply backpacks to over 300 people experiencing homelessness, and a youth-led UK program partnered with police to provide free activities and mentoring that reduced delinquency and improved young people’s outlooks.

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A free New Orleans program providing postpartum home nurse visits for new parents, a charity-led effort with partners and volunteers building 10,000 beds in 24 hours for children in need, and the return of Pizza Hut’s free Book It program rewarding kids for reading with monthly pizza certificates via an app.

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A woman with NMO who recovered from temporary paralysis to complete six major marathons while fundraising for her treating hospital; two brothers at high risk for frontotemporal dementia raising money by doing 32 marathons in 32 days, with one running wearing a 55-pound fridge to represent invisible burdens; and a special education teacher who broke the fastest-marathon-in-a-sari Guinness record while fundraising for an eye-gaze co...

A principal in Oklahoma stopped an armed former student and was later crowned prom king by grateful seniors; a teacher created a phone app, “How Do I Say This in Cree?”, to help students learn and preserve the Cree language; and a teacher organized an 18th birthday cake for a formerly disruptive student, which became his first-ever birthday celebration and marked his progress in school.

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A flood rescue that saved a horse and led to a full recovery, a $70 million unrestricted donation to Meals on Wheels America to expand services for seniors, and a Detroit store clerk who stopped an attempted kidnapping after a girl silently asked for help.

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A jaguar is spotted in Honduras for the first time in over a decade due to conservation, Scotland is pairing trained search dogs with paramedics to find missing people faster, and blue-and-yellow macaws have been reintroduced to Rio de Janeiro after 200 years via captive breeding.

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A man with cerebral palsy who earned an engineering degree, climbed El Capitan, and founded a free camp for kids with physical disabilities while promoting higher expectations; a wellness-call program that led police to a 91-year-old who missed calls because she was focused on a video game; and a 20-year-old with Down syndrome who collected 4,160 jars of peanut butter for a children’s food program and was tapped for a leaders...

A court decision halting logging efforts in Alaska’s Tongass National Rainforest and a Mexican decree creating a Universal Health Service to unify access across public healthcare institutions with a new healthcare credential starting rollout with those 85+

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Milk chocolate made with cell-cultured cocoa butter to ease land and supply pressures, Norway’s planned fleet of fast electric hydrofoil ferries, and late-stage trial results for a pancreatic cancer drug that improved survival versus standard chemotherapy, with another drug also showing gains.

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A wedding interrupted by tornado alarms turns joyful when a youth volleyball group joins the couple for photos and dancing in the basement; a young athlete survives a heart attack and promotes slowing down and wellbeing with a public “sit and pause” bench while raising heart-health awareness; and classmates learn sign language to befriend an isolated deaf first grader, growing into a school club.

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Hartford, Connecticut proposes funding toward universal childcare without raising property taxes; Chicago Public Schools and the public library system now let student IDs function as library cards for citywide access to books and free tutoring; and Canada launches a federal dental care plan covering many dental services for eligible residents under an income threshold.

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A Detroit bakery’s cupcake sales exploded after a viral influencer review, and a New York Mediterranean restaurant owner provides free meals weekly and offers a heated shelter space for people in need, inspired by his own struggles.

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A college student in Hanoi repeatedly enters a burning building to rescue seven people, and a schoolgirl returning home for candy finds her house on fire, alerts her brothers, and helps everyone escape while firefighters put out the blaze.

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A sound-based system that uses infrared detection and low-frequency infrasound to disrupt fires quickly, and a Johns Hopkins-developed nasal DNA vaccine meant to support tuberculosis drug treatment by targeting persister bacteria, reducing lung inflammation, preventing relapse, and improving drug effectiveness

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