- Trick-or-treating for good
. Daily Edition • October 31, 2025 SUPPORTED BY Happy Halloween! Want to start the holiday with a spooky scavenger hunt? The New York Times searched the Metropolitan Museum of Art “for the most haunting works, bloody details, and hidden meanings.” Take a tour through the Met’s scary side. Must Reads Love the thrill of a haunted house? There’s a scientific reason for that The Dictionary.com word of the year is a number — actually, two of them Humanity All Treats: UNICEF Halloween Fundraiser…Read more
- It’s time to Wednesday Waffle
Daily Edition • March 5, 2025 SUPPORTED BY We are overjoyed to share that only four days into “pip watch,” beloved eagles Jackie and Shadow have welcomed two chicks! The first eaglet hatched just before midnight Monday, and the second came into the world in the wee hours of Tuesday morning. The exciting family additions mark the California couple’s first successfully hatched eaglets since 2022 — and it was all captured live by the webcams set up by nonprofit Friends of Big Bear Valley. We’ll...
- Indecisive? It might be FOBO
Daily Edition • March 4, 2025 SUPPORTED BY It’s Mardi Gras! Also known as Fat Tuesday, the occasion is traditionally celebrated the day before Ash Wednesday, a holy day of fasting for Catholics. But the holiday has spread beyond the church to become a wider cultural phenomenon, one often associated with regional treats — like New Orleans king cake and Polish paczki, doughnuts with a delectable sweet filling that are abundant in the Midwest this time of year. Get more Mardi Gras recipe ideas....
- Rare footage of polar bear cubs
Daily Edition • March 3, 2025 SUPPORTED BY We’re going to get sentimental here, so just bear with us. Today marks three years since Nice News sent out our very first newsletter. In some ways, it was a shot in the dark — we believed that Nice News filled a gap in the media landscape, that people needed more reminders of the good in the world, and that a dose of positivity in the inbox could create ripple effects of optimism. But who knew if it would work? Thankfully, we needn’t have worried....