• There were 1.5 billion people estimated to be at risk of trachoma in 2002, dropping to 97.1 million as of November 2025: a 94% reduction. WHO.
• A new milestone in the cancer fight: 7 in 10 patients now survive five-plus years. NBC News.
• For the first time in history, more Mexicans are categorized as middle class than as living in poverty. Mexico News Daily.
• Americans in the 1990s were at least twice as likely to be victims of crime as they are today. Our World in Data.
• In 2025, the U.S. recorded the fewest shooting deaths of any year since 2015. Gun sales and mass shootings also declined last year. The Trace.
• Presbyterian churches in Pittsburgh canceled $14 million in medical debt for their neighbors. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
• Pedro Pascal and Bella Hadid raise $5.5M at Gaza and Sudan aid concert. Good Good Good.
• Coal power generation falls in China and India for first time since 1970s. The Guardian.
• The scimitar-horned oryx, once extinct in the wild, has now been downgraded to endangered. BBC.

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