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Jordan was stunned when Denise, the first-grade teacher he calls his second mom, traveled across the country to surprise him at graduation.

Sydnie brought a framed photo of her Navy brother Skylar to graduation, not knowing he had returned home to surprise her on stage.

A new solar panel desalination system turns seawater into clean drinking water, avoids toxic brine waste, and can recover lithium for batteries.

A pickleball player in Schenectady dropped his paddle, ran into a burning house, and rescued three people before firefighters arrived.

A girls’ trip turned unforgettable when Emily’s surprise pregnancy announcement sparked two more reveals from her best friends.

After his wife died, a Rhode Island retiree found purpose turning curbside trash into treasure, fixing up castoffs and selling them low to help neighbors.

Three teens won the Global Earth Prize for Plas-Stick, a tamarind powder that clumps microplastics in water so they can be lifted out with a magnet.

Endangered North Atlantic right whales had 23 calves this season, the most since 2009, with shorter gaps between births hinting at a real recovery.

Retiring after 35 years, an Iowa teacher hand-sewed a personalized quilt for every student in her class, each designed around the child's own interests.

An 8-year-old's paper airplane note asking for a Taylor Swift song reached her musician neighbor, went viral, and caught Taylor Swift's own attention.