Houston Mayor John Whitmire emphasizes the importance of community-wide preparedness for the upcoming hurricane season.

Flags celebrated survival, endurance and above all, defiance on a day Ukraine's president had called for displays of unity.

NASA is teaming up with the maker of Tide to figure out how to do laundry in space.

Unity in the community is the action group from the local ministry Unity of Houston that has a weekly food drive for families in need.

(AP Photo, File)NEW YORK – When Joe Biden addresses the country for the first time as president, his inaugural speech is likely to echo calls for unity that predecessors have invoked since the first time George Washington was sworn in. Unity has since been a theme, and an anxiety, for many incoming presidents, who have faced economic and social crises and moments when the very future of the U.S. was in doubt. “Unity has always been an aspiration," says presidential historian Douglas Brinkley. But when we have domestic turmoil we use the word unity.”The United States was forged through compromise among factions that disagreed profoundly on slavery, regional influence and the relative powers of state and federal government. “A president often claims the country is ‘united’ behind a belief when it’s more wishful thinking than reality,” Widmer says.

A duo came together to create a Happy Hour that helps to bridge the racial divide. Two men named Marcus and Ben set up lawn chairs and invited the neighborhood to join them during the pandemic. The two friends put up a simple sign that reads: Black or white, relax and come have a beer.The driveway moment gained momentum with tens of millions of likes on social media and even a gracious delivery of beer from their new super fan country singer Brad Paisley. If you see or hear of good news happening in your neighborhood, tell us so we can tell the rest of our viewers.

In a letter-writing effort during the virus pandemic to connect nursing home residents in two neighboring communities, residents now are receiving pen pal letters from across the United States. Vanderweit, an activity aide at Sullivan County Health Care in Claremont, thought: Why not match his nursing home residents with pen pals at Summercrest Senior Living Community 12 miles away in Newport? The stacks of mail got so large that Vanderweit organized a pen pal club which gathers once a week to read the letters aloud and respond as a group. They cant have visitors, they cant have family come in, so this is a way of reaching out, she said. Postcards are welcome, or he suggests people reach out to nursing homes in their home states.