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Daily Edition • October 17, 2025 SUPPORTED BY If you feel like everyone has a weighted vest these days, you’re not going crazy. The market for these fitness tools is booming, in part thanks to social media, with many claiming that walking with added weight is particularly beneficial for peri- or postmenopausal women. But are they really as good for you as people say? The answer, as with so many things, is yes and no — hear from an expert. Must Reads This area of Thailand may be far from the...

. Daily Edition • October 16, 2025 SUPPORTED BY In North Carolina, more than 2.5 million people will soon have their medical debt — totaling over $6.5 billion — eliminated, thanks to a partnership between the state government and the nonprofit Undue Medical Debt. That’s a financial burden relieved for nearly a quarter of North Carolina’s residents. And you can help lift that burden for others by contributing to Nice News’ ongoing fall fundraising campaign with Undue Medical Debt. We’re well...

Editors’ Picks • October 15, 2025 The world’s rarest hyena species is (a tad ironically) getting its day in the sun: An elusive, nocturnal brown hyena was captured in a “haunting” image that just won the Wildlife Photographer of the Year awards. Titling the spooky shot “Ghost Town Visitor,” Wim van den Heever from South Africa spent a decade monitoring camera traps in the abandoned diamond mining town of Kolmanskop, Namibia, to score it. Learn more about the photo and see the other winning...

. Daily Edition • October 15, 2025 SUPPORTED BY Want to brighten a kid’s day? Right now, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles is asking the public to send Halloween cards to pediatric patients — all you have to do is select one of the card options and write a sweet message. Hospital staff will hand deliver the cards (which the kids can color in) alongside a goodie bag and some Halloween treats. And you’ll be making a difference in more ways than one: A donor is giving the Children’s Fund $1 for...

. Daily Edition • October 14, 2025 SUPPORTED BY Have you heard of the Eisenhower Matrix? The productivity hack is based on the famously strong project management skills of President Dwight D. Eisenhower. “Whenever our affairs seem to be in crisis, we are almost compelled to give our first attention to the urgent present rather than to the important future,” he once said. The method helps you prioritize your to-do list using a simple, four-box matrix — learn how to apply it to your own life....

. Daily Edition • October 13, 2025 SUPPORTED BY This October marks the 40th Breast Cancer Awareness Month — and today is Breast Cancer Awareness Day. These designations are more than just pink ribbons; they’re critical fund- and awareness-raising opportunities, and we’re happy to report that much has changed for the better since the first observance in 1985. Breast cancer death rates have been steadily falling since the late ’80s, and five-year survival rates steadily increasing. Learn more...

Sunday Edition • October 12, 2025 SUPPORTED BY We’ve all witnessed — or experienced firsthand — how holidays send some people into creative frenzies, and such was the case for two Texas neighbors who started a viral showdown over their Halloween decorations. It started with a playful sign reading “Is that all you got?” after a 12-foot skeleton appeared in one family’s yard, and evolved into a good-natured competition chronicled on social media. “They’re such great people, and I can already...