It wasn’t all bad: A look back at good news from 2020

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<p><a href="https://apple.news/AkT-XLs7PTXvkjTxdvTjvCg?campaign_id=applenewstoday_shownotes">Apple News</a> has collected the best good news stories of this year.</p> <p>The <a href="https://apple.news/ADDwQXOZEROmDTT6MWeMC0w?campaign_id=applenewstoday_shownotes">Washington Post</a> profiles Peter Tsai, the inventor of the filter in N95 masks, who came out of retirement during the pandemic because he saw an urgent need for these masks.</p> <p>WNBA champion Maya Moore took time away from basketball to advocate for Jonathon Irons, a man wrongfully convicted of crime, to be released from prison. <a href="https://apple.news/Axny8PpNNS2u8fiS8T9XNig?campaign_id=applenewstoday_shownotes">Slate</a> has the story of Moore&rsquo;s successful efforts and how the two fell in love.</p> <p><a href="https://apple.news/A9AWenb5xQESWMaHotbiGMw?campaign_id=applenewstoday_shownotes">National Geographic</a> highlights seven wins for the environment in 2020.<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span></p> <p><a href="https://apple.news/ADqsW0eYBQ7uyT5CTiQ-sIA?campaign_id=applenewstoday_shownotes">Salon</a> explains a pandemic-era trend called Verzuz &ndash; a kind of DJ battle that happens over live video stream.</p> <p>The <a href="https://apple.news/AlqgqYn3aQ3ab7RW4iMad7w?campaign_id=applenewstoday_shownotes">Washington Post</a> shares some of their favorite front-pages from kids newspapers that popped up across the country this year.</p> <p>The <a href="https://apple.news/Amp9DWelXR7e5j13fOlFhgg?campaign_id=applenewstoday_shownotes">Wall Street Journal</a> reports on the breakthrough science that made the coronavirus vaccines possible.</p>