- Meet your Focus Friend
Daily Edition • August 25, 2025 SUPPORTED BY Happy belated birthday to Ethel Caterham! The world’s oldest living person turned 116 last week, marking the occasion “at her own pace” in a care home in England, per CBS News. Born Aug. 21, 1909, Caterham is the last living subject of King Edward VII — and said that though she wouldn’t be giving any interviews in honor of her latest birthday, she would welcome a call from the present monarch, King Charles III. Hopefully that wish gets fulfilled!…Read more
- Changes in the White House kitchen
Daily Edition • August 1, 2024 SUPPORTED BY With back-to-school season heading into full swing — depending on where you are in the country — we’ve got education on the mind. So Nice News’ August Cause of the Month is Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library, a literacy initiative that has distributed nearly 245 million books (and counting) to children under 5 in the U.S., U.K., Australia, and Ireland since 1995. Here’s how the book gifting program works: Each month, the Imagination Library works...
- A clue to setting kids up for economic mobility
Daily Edition • July 31, 2024 SUPPORTED BY Language is ever-evolving, and dictionaries are here to capture that evolution. So far this year, more than 3,200 new words have been added to the Cambridge Dictionary, with informal terms like “the ick,” “boop,” and “chef’s kiss” coming into the mix. You might be tempted to write them off as examples of fleeting youthful slang, but publishing manager Wendalyn Nichols said the new additions have “staying power,” per the BBC. See what they mean. Must...
- We all need these different types of friends
Daily Edition • July 30, 2024 SUPPORTED BY Though it may sound like something dreamed up by Fred Rogers, the International Day of Friendship is a United Nations-designated celebration. And as you might have guessed, it’s today. We consider you — all 800,000-plus of you — to be friends of Nice News, and hope you see us in much the same way, so happy friendship day! It’s the perfect excuse to reach out to your pals. Must Reads So long open seating, Southwest Airlines is making some changes True...