🎂 Many high school seniors are baking “rejection cakes” when they get turned down from colleges. Explore the lighthearted trend.

🐢 California’s only native turtle species is making a triumphant return to Yosemite National Park after years of conservation efforts.

🍾 An 11-year-old Michigan girl found a message in a bottle from Hawaii while vacationing with her family in Florida. The bottle had been thrown into the sea eight years earlier.