Election Week Edition: Good News Friday
Our weekly look at all the Good Things happening in the world
If it’s Friday, it’s time for Good News! Let’s enjoy some INSPIRING stories unfolding around the world for the week of November 7, 2025.
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Good News Friday - Election Week Edition
The United States held its 59th Presidential election this week, one of the world’s longest-running, largest, and most peaceful democratic exercises. Over 64.5% of eligible voters cast over 158 million ballots, including four astronauts who voted from the International Space Station.
The DOW Jones saw its biggest gains in two years on Wednesday this week, and the Federal Reserve cut interest rates another quarter of a point on Thursday.
Shares of Zillow rose 24% on Thursday, Anywhere Real Estate was up 2.25% and Redfin was up 6.7% as real estate stocks in general moved higher.
Pending sales were at the highest level since March and 2.6% higher than September of last year, says a new report by NAR.
New home sales rose 4.1% in September says new data, the highest since July, say national home builders.
US GDP hit 2.8% last quarter, as China’s economy produced a solid 4.6% growth rate.
The FBI recovered over $8 million in funds in a cryptocurrency wallet belonging to children’s university funds, retirement funds, eldercare, and inheritances in Wichita of people who had fallen victim to a banking scam.
A carpenter in North Carolina found $20 on the ground and bought a scratch-off ticket worth over $1 million dollars last month, saying he’ll use the winnings to finally retire after 56 years.
NASA Astronauts returned to Earth - safe, sound, and 8 months “fashionably late,” they laughed - in a SpaceX capsule after previous attempts by other rockets were deemed too dangerous to attempt re-entry.
A 17-year-old surfer was rescued after clinging to his kayak for more than 12 hours off the coast of Honolulu by a combination of the US Coast Guard and on-shore lifeguards who refused to give up on him.
A Virginia firm is using AI to grow produce year-round by analyzing over 10 million data points daily and adapting conditions to the growing needs of the plants, using 97% less land, 90% less water, and no bees.
The University of Maine researchers are using the world’s largest 3D printer to convert sawdust from the local lumber industry into 600-square-foot cabin walls, floors, and roofs, in under 48 hours.
And finally this week, a story proving that you might be on the “right track,” even when it doesn’t feel like it:
A woman in England attempted to end her life by standing on train tracks awaiting the inevitable when someone alerted the train’s engineer, who slammed on the brakes just in time. Descending from the engine, Dave Law approached the woman and sat with her on the tracks for over ninety minutes until police could get Charlotte to the safety of mental health workers. Lay returned to his train and carried on.
But the woman, Charlotte, had other plans as she recovered, seeking him out on Facebook and eventually texting him. The two exchanged messages, and eventually met for coffee. Dave says he “said all the things he wished he could’ve said” to others who have committed suicide and hadn’t heard what happened to her until she found him. “I’d contacted police… and wanted to make sure she was safe,” he told the BBC. “We’d had that rapport built by the side of the track.”
Their new friendship was a big help to Charlotte, who began receiving treatment for her mental health challenges. Three years later, she returned to work as a nurse in the British National Health Service. And did we mention: that Charlotte and Dave are now married and awaiting their first child?
“I walked down the tracks and sat down, waiting,” Charlotte told British media, adding, “I’m so grateful to Dave for stopping that day and being so patient and understanding.”
As democracy carries on, the economy carries us higher, and technology carries us to the far reaches of space, it’s clear that life has plans — GOOD ONES — for all of us, every day. Just take it from Charlotte and Dave who remind us that even when things seem desperate, life knows how to turn on the light at the end of the tunnel.
Happy Weekend!
—M
This resonates so much. The balance between pushing forward and allowing things to unfold naturally is powerful. Sometimes, the best outcomes happen when we step back and let things flow.