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A live feed of today's positive and happy news: medical breakthroughs, environmental wins, and everyday acts of kindness, gathered from trusted good news sources. Here is the good news happening right now.

Today's good news

Updated October 17, 2026 · refreshed throughout the day

Woman’s African grey parrot is obsessed with butts and fart noises. It’s the joy we all need.

Upworthy · 53m ago

99-yo Woman Snags ‘World’s Oldest Wing-Walker’ Title – 3 Months After Another Gran Did It (LOOK)

Good News Network · 2h ago

Good News This Week: October 17, 2026 - Trees, Diapers, & Prosthetic Paws

Good Good Good · 10h ago

This 13-Year-Old Was Just Named “America’s Top Young Scientist”: Her Invention Could Help Save Our Oceans

Nice News · 22h ago

5 Top Brands for Comfortable 100% Organic Cotton Bras

Happy Eco News · 1d ago

Podcast Transcript October 16th, 2026— Flu is already spreading: why October is the window to get vaccinated, plus nine more solutions

The Optimist Daily · 1d ago

Brazil bans six-day workweek, Britain’s best new building, the movement to unplastify schools

Squirrel News · 1d ago

What Dementia Taught Me About Living Through a Callous Time

Reasons to be Cheerful · 1d ago

What went right this week: the good news that matters

Positive News · 1d ago

MUSIC MONDAY: AfroClectic Halloween 2026 (LISTEN)

Good Black News · 5d ago

At his TV Hall of Fame induction, Mister Rogers was left speechless by a reunion 20 years in the making

Upworthy · 3h ago

Coral Bleaching Reversed at Record Speed Using New Stanford Method: ‘Not a Lost Cause, at All’

Good News Network · 4h ago

New study finds remote work brought teams closer, not further apart

Good Good Good · 1d ago

Fastest 9-Year-Old Girl to Run 5K Aims to Beat Her Personal Record: “I Love Chasing New Goals”

Nice News · 2d ago

How Grid Modernization Is Making Clean Energy Reliable

Happy Eco News · 1d ago

What to leave alone in your garden this October to help overwintering bees

The Optimist Daily · 1d ago

Girls’ health improves worldwide, gene therapy partly restores sight, sushi chef helps Somali pirates turn to fishing

Squirrel News · 3d ago

Welcome to the Depolarization Project

Reasons to be Cheerful · 1d ago

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Happy and positive news covers uplifting developments such as medical breakthroughs, environmental wins, scientific progress, community successes, and everyday acts of kindness, rather than the alarming headlines that usually dominate.

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