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One North Carolina elementary school is proving that shorter summers and more frequent breaks might be the key to keeping kids learning. Students return from five-week breaks with their knowledge intact, and teachers say the results speak for themselves.
A nearly $1 million project just brought back one of Earth's rarest coastal habitats in northeast England. Volunteers planted 21,000 trees and transformed 7 miles of coastline that exists nowhere else on the planet.
A college student who survived a shooting at her school's homecoming is now helping others by sharing her journey. Her courage is turning tragedy into hope for communities affected by gun violence.
Emily Webster, who beat a rare appendix cancer at 32, is running her first marathon wearing her late father-in-law's Boston Marathon jacket. The Durham professor honors Bryan Suits, who ran Boston during his own cancer treatment before losing his battle in 2023.
When a night out went wrong, friends used Snapchat's location feature to find their companion clinging to a tree branch in a freezing river. Police rescued both him and a friend who jumped in to help, turning a potential tragedy into a story of quick thinking and heroism.