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$38 Mil Donated to Storm Relief as Help Streams in From Agencies
Friday night a star-studded NBC telethon raised an unknown amount of money for storm relief efforts with its broadcast featuring hometown heroes Springsteen, Jon...
Thrilled Scientists Find Elusive Higgs Particle Seen as Key to the Universe
Scientists announced yesterday that millions of dollars and years of effort in Europe have paid off in the search for the elusive particle called...
Medical Students Learned on the Bodies, Now Honor the Donors
Georgetown University medical students recently held their yearly religious service, to say thank you to anatomical donors.
Each year, 19,000 medical students in the United...
Rewire Your Brain for Love
Valentine’s Day can be the bane of any person's year. It can fling daggers of loneliness, rather than gentle arrows from Cupid. Instead of...
American Millionaires Rewrite Their Own Image
A group called Patriotic Millionaires for Fiscal Strength came to Washington this week to ask the debt reduction "Super Committee" to raise taxes on...
Holiday Mail for Heroes
Millions of Americans since 2007 have sent holiday cards to soldiers serving overseas and wounded veterans in hospitals as part of the American Red...
Men’s Morning Patrols Aimed at Giving Kids ‘Safe Passage’ to School
A simple plan is making sure that D.C. children who live in the troubled communities east of the Anacostia River see welcoming black male...
Going Green by Going Google
From mowing it’s Googleplex headquarters’ lawn with a herd of goats to proposing a $4.68 trillion plan for changing alternative energy policy in the...
Kenyan Exchange Student Runs for His Tiny Village Back Home
He set out on his own in 2009 when he took the 8,000-mile flight from Kenya to Maryland as a foreign exchange student.
He had...
Marshmallow Peeps Star in 4th Annual Diorama Design Contest
Once again the creative genius of the Washington DC community is on display in the Easter candy parade of homemade art that is the...
Lebron James to Help Lower High School Dropout Rate in US
Basketball star LeBron James hopes to change one statistic that has always been too high: the high school drop-out rate. James will lead a...
Universal Donates Treasure of 200,000 Master Recordings to Library of Congress
Vintage sound recordings, including never released and out-of-print masters featuring Billie Holiday, Louis Armstrong and Bing Crosby were donated to the American public by...
Ex-radio Engineer for Gaddafi Regime Uses Newfound Freedom to Transmit Messages of Hope & Change
When the Libyan city of Benghazi fell into the hands of the opposition a week ago, Saleh Zayani grabbed two sound mixers and a...
Fashion Icon Donna Karan Honored for Haiti Relief Efforts
One year after a devastating earthquake rocked the island nation of Haiti, thousands of families remain sheltered due in large part to efforts supported...
Gates Foundation Gives $50 Million to Smithsonian to Reach Youth
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has contributed $50 million to the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC.
The gift, announced Wednesday night by the Smithsonian,...
iPhone Fever: ‘Laugh Out Loud’ Column Debuts on Good News Network
We weren’t in our seats five minutes when it began: “Look at this,” my cousin Peter said, tilting his iPhone so I might see...
Tennessee’s Bold Leap in Care for the Aged and Disabled
After lagging behind the rest of the country for years, Tennessee is catching up fast when it comes to improvements in its health care...
New York Opens its First Electric Vehicle Charging Station
Mayor Bloomberg opened the city’s first electric-vehicle charging station at a commercial parking lot, adding some spark to a nationwide push to boost infrastructure...
Two Families Cross Seas to Help Young Burn Victim to Thrive
Zhou Lin, as a badly burned child in China, locked eyes with an American woman who took pity on the begging family and decided...
Students Empowered by Hip Hop (Video)
This summer, a Washington DC high school will host a Hip-hop music program that will encourage youth to interpret their surroundings, explore their identities...