Kailyn Toussaint

Based in beautiful New England, Kailyn has been a part of the DONUT team since January 2021. When she's not writing positive stories or keeping readers up to date with the latest Sports, Media & Entertainment news, she works as a professional vocalist, touring with multiple groups and singing around the world. Kailyn spearheads our Positive DONUT newsletter, sharing awww-inspiring stories from around the world every Tuesday.

Kailyn Toussaint

Latest Articles by Kailyn Toussaint

Business & Markets
  |  August 27, 2026

Car insurers are increasingly likely to deny payments

Paying your car insurance every month is relatively easy.

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U.S.
  |  August 27, 2026

Meta to pay billions in landmark social media settlement

Teenagers may soon have to find a new midnight hobby besides scrolling Instagram and testing which filter gives them the best cheekbones.

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Positive
  |  August 26, 2026

National Parks are for everyone

Zion just became the first National Park to debut an all-terrain wheelchair lending program for visitors.

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Positive
  |  August 26, 2026

Crafting a cure for loneliness

Turns out, making friends as an adult may be easier when everyone has something to keep their hands busy.

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U.S.
  |  August 25, 2026

Plus-sized fashion is harder to find amid GLP-1 craze

Fashion's latest shrinking trend has nothing to do with hemlines.

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Business & Markets
  |  August 25, 2026

Walmart’s latest earnings offer peek inside consumers’ wallets

The American consumer appears to have entered the “Do I really need this?” portion of the economic cycle.

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Science & Emerging Tech
  |  August 20, 2026

First-of-its-kind mRNA cancer vaccine passes major test

A personalized cancer vaccine from Moderna and Merck succeeded in preventing melanoma from returning or spreading in a late-stage study of high-risk patients, marking the first successful late-stage trial for a personalized mRNA cancer therapy.

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Business & Markets
  |  August 20, 2026

It’s a small-project summer, according to Home Depot

Americans may not be remodeling the kitchen, but that crooked cabinet door has officially run out of excuses, per Home Depot’s latest earnings report.

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Positive
  |  August 18, 2026

The fastest fluff in Lithuania

Nearly 150 fluffy-butts zoomed across a turfed race track as part of the fifth annual Corgi Race Vilnius in Lithuania this weekend.

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Media & Entertainment
  |  August 18, 2026

Spotify is giving a new label to AI artists

Bad news for aspiring robot rock stars: Spotify is now checking whether artists exist somewhere other than a server rack.

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Positive
  |  August 18, 2026

Do you want some fries with that degree?

When Thalles DeSouza started working at a Wendy’s in Cape Cod, Massachusetts as a high schooler, college seemed like a distant dream.

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Business & Markets
  |  August 13, 2026

America has a growing chicken glut

America’s poultry producers may have put too many eggs in one basket.

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Media & Entertainment
  |  August 13, 2026

Hollywood is in the midst of a blockbuster summer

Hollywood has rediscovered one of its favorite summer traditions: making a boatload of money.

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Positive
  |  August 12, 2026

The Big Apple, but bite-sized

Queens-born truck driver Joe Macken has spent the past two decades building New York City from the ground up… just on a slightly smaller scale.

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Positive
  |  August 12, 2026

The hospital where green patients are a good sign

At a bright blue building in Edinburgh, Scotland, patients arrive for consultations, occasionally get quarantined, and sometimes require surgery.

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U.S.
  |  August 11, 2026

US hiring slows, but wage growth is speeding up

America's job market is sending about as many mixed signals as a Hinge date who says they had a great time...then leaves your last text on read.

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Business & Markets
  |  August 11, 2026

eBay bets big on live shopping

eBay is adding a live camera to its longtime auction formula.

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Science & Emerging Tech
  |  August 6, 2026

New avocado discovery could shave years off breeding cycles

For centuries, avocados have kept one of their biggest secrets close to the pit.

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U.S.
  |  August 6, 2026

Western states grapple with a shrinking Colorado River

Last week, the Trump administration unveiled a new 10-year plan for managing the shrinking Colorado River, which supplies water to 35-40 million people across the American West.

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Positive
  |  August 5, 2026

Hop on the Curiosity Mobile

Six months ago, author and “curiosity expert” Scott Shigeoka hit the road in his purple Curiosity Mobile to explore what he calls America’s “belief gap.”

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