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On September 12, Jared Isaacman and Sarah Gillis made history. They became the first civilians to perform a spacewalk. Past spacewalks had been done only by professional astronauts. During a spacewalk, an astronaut leaves a spacecraft. They do not actually…
Here, teams from Boeing and NASA tend to the Starliner spacecraft. It returned to Earth on September 6. It landed in White Sands Space Harbor, in New Mexico. The Starliner arrived without its crew members. They are at the International…
Carlsbad Caverns National Park is a system of caves. It is in New Mexico. In September, a bag of Cheetos was dropped there. It caused problems for cave life. Food and drink are not allowed in the caves. A spilled…
A United States presidential election is coming up. Voters will go to the polls on Tuesday, November 5. Some people will vote by mail even sooner. The winner of the election will lead the country for the next four years. …
On May 30, a seventh-grader from Tampa, Florida, became the 2024 Scripps National Spelling Bee champ. Bruhat Soma, 12, crushed a lightning tiebreaker round by spelling 29 words correctly in 90 seconds. The winning word was abseil. It’s a word…
Maurice Ashley is the first Black chess grandmaster. He’s also the author of The Life-Changing Magic of Chess. The book presents the basics of chess. Ashley uses his experience with chess to explain them. TFK Kid Reporter Sophia Zhang spoke…
Frank Rubio is an astronaut. On September 27, 2023, he broke a record. He completed the longest U.S. spaceflight. When he got back, he ate a salad. That’s the food he craved most while at the International Space Station. …
Lionel Messi is a famous soccer player. He led Argentina to a World Cup win in 2022. He played in France for the 2022–2023 season. Then he shocked the world. In June 2023, he made an announcement. He joined Inter…
Every February, the country celebrates Presidents’ Day. Historical groups hold special events. Schools teach about the presidents. But the holiday wasn’t always celebrated like this. Presidents’ Day began with George Washington. He was the first president of the United…
The other president we honor on Presidents’ Day is Abraham Lincoln. His birthday was February 12, 1809. He was born in a log cabin in Kentucky. His parents did not know how to read or write. But Lincoln would go…
