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How a Former Victim of Domestic Violence Is Protecting Young Girls from the...
Standing inside a Las Vegas youth correctional facility this past August, surrounded by young women, Ni’Cola Mitchell’s heart swelled. Being in juvenile detention isn’t exactly a place many people...
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How One Second-Generation American Is Empowering Immigrant Girls Around the...
There are 19.6 million immigrant children in the United States, yet only about 2 million of current college enrollees are first- or second-generation immigrants. There are many reasons for the...
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What It Feels Like to Have a Wildfire Burn Over You, Straight from a Firefighter
America’s deadliest wildfire in recent years started off as a small brush fire, ignited by a lightning strike. It occurred on June 28, 2013, outside of Yarnell, Arizona, population 543. Within hours,...
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Why Magicians Have the Most Rewarding Job in the World
I became a magician by accident. When I was nine years old, I learned how to make a coin disappear. I’d read The Lord of the Rings and ventured into the adult section of the library to search for a...
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A Lifeguard Saved Two Kids from Drowning. The Mother’s Response Will Sicken You.
I’m originally from Orange County, California, where I had the pleasure and honor of serving as a Newport Beach ocean lifeguard for five seasons. Whenever I could, I got shifts working the Point. If...
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Why We Need to Bring Back the Pledge of Allegiance in Our Classrooms
Editor’s Note: Reader’s Digest is partnering with WeThePurple.org to republish articles from our archives that dramatize and revive patriotic enthusiasm about democracy and its core values.This piece...
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This Veteran Found His Long-Lost Love After 75 Years
K.T. Robbins is 98, but his memory is sharper than ever. It’s been 75 years since he was part of the 95th Bakers Battalion, stationed in Briey, France, during the Second World War. Robbins was happily...
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16 New World Records For 2019
World records aplenty Chances are, a Guinness World Record has stuck with you since you first saw an image of it in childhood—maybe the longest fingernails, or the largest living cat. Since the first...
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13 of the Bravest Dogs in History
Brave pups We know that our pet dog would do anything for us—but these 13 pups go above and beyond the call of duty and bravery. Read on to find out the bravest dogs out there. The post 13 of the...
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15 Stories That Prove It’s Never Too Late to Change Your Life
So often we find ourselves on autopilot—waking up in the same home, putting on the same clothes, taking the same transportation to the same-old job. Even our New Year’s resolutions to change barely...
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11 Craziest Things Found in People’s Bodies
Maybe there’s a better place to hide the jewelry? A well-dressed, well-groomed, middle-aged woman came into the ER with stomach pains, recalls Quora contributor, Ali Sadek, MS, MA, MD, PhD. While the...
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The Worst Travel Nightmares of 2019
When traveling goes very wrong Billions of people travel every year without a problem. In fact, there are an average of 1.4 billion international arrivals annually, according to the United Nations...
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I Was Adopted at 13, and Now I Dedicate My Life to Helping Others in Foster Care
Shanté Elliott is no stranger to the foster care system. In fact, it was a system Elliott was once shuffled around in herself; she was forced to change schools and acclimate to different homes over and...
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This Teacher Saved a Cafeteria of Students from an Active Shooter
Angela McQueen has a routine when she’s on lunch-monitoring duty. The longtime math and phys ed teacher at Mattoon High School in Mattoon, Illinois, keeps an eye on the hundreds of students in her...
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Ex-Gunman Tells Us How to Stop the Next Mass Shooter
Nobody knows who he is, and nobody knows who he was. When he was a young man, his anonymity fueled his desperation, and for a short time, his desperation made him known. He was well-known enough to...
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What It’s Really Like to Be a Hallmark Holiday Writer
The path to writing and romance For many, the schmaltzy seasonal fare that fills the Hallmark Channel’s programming slate between Halloween and New Year’s Eve is as much a part of getting in the...
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This Family Keeps Their Community Warm by Chopping Firewood for Those in Need
Shane McDaniel and his sons cut 80 truckloads of wood for those in need. Washington is home to lots of trees—it is the Evergreen State, after all—and lots of fireplaces and wood-burning stoves too. But...
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Snow Had Been Falling at This Luxury Italian Resort for Days, Then It Came...
He was pinned in the darkness by the weight of beams and walls, ice and earth. What happened? Where am I? Lying on his stomach, he surveyed what he could: His left leg had been twisted and thrust...
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A Firefighter Was Getting Ready for Bed, but a Few Minutes Later Ended up...
Janice Esposito (far right) will never forget what Pete DiPinto (second from the left) did for her. It was late, about 10:15 p.m., when Janice Esposito arrived at the Bellport, New York, train station;...
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I Got Shot in a Place That Loves Guns, and I Still Can’t Bring Myself to Hate...
I was shot on a Sunday. It was late and it was hot and I was 21, on my way home from dinner during summer break. I’d rolled the windows down because the breeze felt good. I pulled up to a red light,...
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