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Good morning and welcome to Kidnews.
We're so glad to be back.
I'm Tori. Today is Monday, April 7, 2025, and we begin with the great eight eclipsing the great one.
Yesterday Washington Capital's forward, Alex Ovechkin, scored his 895th career goal, icing the longstanding record held by hockey legend Wayne Gretzky for more than 25 years.
Alex, also known as Alexander the Great and the Great Eight because of his jersey number, found the back of the net in the second period.
The game was immediately paused, a ceremony was held on center ice, and in a true sign of good sportsmanship, Wayne Gretzky was the first one to shake his hand.
They say records are made to be broken, the great one, told Alex and the crowd, but I'm not sure who's going to get more goals than that.
The opening bell is ringing this morning on a bruised and battered Wall Street.
What happens today is anyone's guess.
But late last week, the stock market took a historic beat down.
Not since the pandemic in 2020 have stocks fallen so hard and so fast. And the reason is uncertainty surrounding President Trump's tariffs or taxes on products from other countries.
Among the companies reacting?
Nintendo. It had planned to start taking pre -orders for its much anticipated switch to video game console this Wednesday But within hours of Mr. Trump's trade announcement, delayed those pre -orders indefinitely.
March is over and soon, so will the madness.
The women of UConn led by presumptive number -one draft pick Paige Beckers took the college basketball crown yesterday by walloping South Carolina 82 to 59.
It is the school's 12th title.
And tonight, the Florida Gators and the Houston Cougars play for all the marbles on the men's side.
Tip off at the Alamo Dome in San Antonio, Texas is at 8 .50 PM Eastern Time.
If Florida wins, it'll be their third championship.
If Houston wins, it'll be their first. Another breather for TikTok and its 170 million American users.
On Friday, just one day before the deadline to sell or be banned, President Trump gave the app 75 more days to find a new owner.
An agreement was very close about a week ago, but NBC News reports that once President Trump hit China with a new round of tariffs, Beijing ordered ByteDance to ditch the deal until further notice.
The new sell -by date is the middle of June.
By now you've heard about the must -have bat in baseball.
It's called the torpedo bat, and it's blowing up the majors!
The genius behind it is 48 year old M .I .T.
scientist Aaron Leenhardt, who once was a minor league hitting coach. His idea, according to the Wall Street Journal, moved the fat part of the bat closer to the handle, instead of the end.
Doing so makes it look more like a bowling pin, and puts the heaviest part where hitters are more likely to make contact.
Already this season, 22 homers have been hit using it, But players were skeptical at first until the Yankees used them to hit a record 17 homers in the season's first four games.
Now every team in the league has placed an order – one notable Bronx bomber who refuses to toy with a torpedo, Aaron Judge who's already hit five homers this season, and all of them with an old -fashioned barrel bat.
We've all done it, accidentally stepped into the frame of someone trying to take a picture, Even leaders of the free world aren't immune a Virginia family found that out while trying to capture their two kids in front of DC's famous cherry blossoms when former President Barack Obama Strolled into the background the accidental photo bombing has since made its way around the internet.
Mr. Obama took note and reshared the picture with his 35 million Instagram followers with a note Preston and Belle Hope you enjoyed peak bloom my bad for stepping into the shot Still to come, a shock to the system.
Why some Australian 11th graders were told they had two more years of high school, instead of one.
But first today's KidNews Quiz.
Who won the Women's March Madness Championship?
Yukon for the twelfth time.
Florida and Houston play tonight on the men's side.
President Trump gave TikTok a 2nd extension to find a buyer.
How many more days does it have?
About 75 What's the name of the revolutionary new bat being used in the majors?
The torpedo bat Who photo -bombed a picture of kids in front of DC's cherry blossoms?
of my blossoms .atorial music playing Former President Barack Obama In today's Kid News Kicker, April Fools Day fell during our spring break, but the prank pulled by a principal down under is still worth sharing.
A somber principal, Kylie Woods, gathered her 11th graders at Wollongong High School of the Performing Arts in the auditorium and broke the bad news.
A mandatory thirteenth year had been added.
They'd now be graduating in 2027 instead of 2026 and there was no getting around it.
Understandably, that news didn't sit well—hidden cameras caught the kids as they gasped, threw their hands in the air, and held their faces in distress.
Principal Woods kept the ruse going just long enough to convince them before ending with, quote, one other vital piece of information—that it was all a joke and they'd been had.
She told Nine Now, it's a very serious world that we live in, so we thought we'd bring little bit of fun.
And I think it's just super important that we learn to laugh at ourselves.
Before we go, we want to shout out all our fun -loving educators.
Ms. Cassidy, Mrs. Puin, and their leopards at Lander and Mayfield Heights, Ohio.
Mrs. Cleland's Blue Jays, and Mrs. Edwards' Wildcats at JWS in Craven, North Carolina.
Mrs. Tracy and her students at Central in Alaman, Iowa.
And to California for Mrs. Sanchez and her Vikings at Valley Verde and Walnut Creek, and Miss Miranda and her angels at Sacred Heart in Redland.
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