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I'm Tori. Today is Tuesday, February 4th, 2025.
And we begin with the Grammys threading a needle.
Somehow, organizers and attendees of Sunday Show needed to celebrate the glitz and glam of music's best while acknowledging the fire devastation just outside.
By all accounts, they succeeded.
The event doubled as a fundraiser and brought in $7 million for wildfire relief.
Local businesses were given airtime, famous faces helped them get their message across, and performers picked songs like I Love L .A.
and California Dreamin' to fit the mood, which was subdued yet hopeful.
And then there were the awards.
After four defeats, Beyoncé finally won Album of the Year for Cowboy Carter and thanked L .A.
firefighters in her acceptance speech.
Other winners, Kendrick Lamar got Record of the Year and Song of the Year for Not Like Us, while Sabrina Carpenter walked away with Best Pop Vocal Album for Short and Sweet.
Blue Origin may or may not be in orbit.
After scrubbing a planned launch of its new Shepard spacecraft from West Texas last week, engineers rescheduled it for today.
And if all went well, it could already be airborne.
If not, there's still time.
The launch window is open until 5 .30 p .m.
this afternoon. Once in orbit, the mission's 30 on -board experiments, all of which are testing technology to someday be used on the Moon, will be rotated 11 times per minute to simulate lunar gravity, which is one -sixth that of Earth.
Blue Origin is planning a live stream of the launch 15 minutes before takeoff.
We've put a link on our website at kidnews .org.
Paleontologists here on Earth are pretty pumped up over some prehistoric puke.
The relic was discovered by a private fossil hunter on a coastal cliff in Denmark.
Ancient vomit is a rare find, as it's rarely preserved.
But this specimen was found with a fossil of two small tentacled sea creatures from about 66 million years ago, known as sea lilies.
Scientists say the sample, which is less than an inch and a half in size, teaches them about the hunting habits and diets of sea creatures from this time, which is known as the Cretaceous Period.
Some art collectors believe a painting bought for $50 at a garage sale in Minnesota nine years ago is by Vincent van Gogh.
The painting of a fisherman repairing his net was not previously known as one of his works, but recent tests suggest the Dutch artist may have painted it during his stay at a psychiatric hospital in the south of France in 1889.
Experts figured this out by analyzing the canvas weave and paint pigment.
Despite these conclusions, not everyone believes the work is by this famous artist.
The prestigious Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam has not yet accepted it as genuine, but advocates are hoping the recent laboratory tests will convince them.
Van Gogh lived a short but productive life.
He made around 900 paintings, most of them in his last two years before dying in 1890 at the age of 37.
February is Black History Month, where the lives and achievements of African Americans are celebrated.
Why February and who chose it?
Turns out the story goes way back to 1916 when an alumnus of the University of Chicago named Carter G.
Woodson attended a celebration of the 50th anniversary of the emancipation of Black Americans.
The event was so overwhelmingly popular with huge overflow crowds that Mr.
Woodson created additional celebratory events.
By 1926, they had evolved into Negro History Week.
The initiative kept expanding, and in 1976, Black History Month was born.
Mr. Woodson selected this month for the honor because two Americans who played a major role in Black history, Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass, were both born in February.
Still to come, a study finds dogs and people have been besties for much longer than previously thought.
But first, today's Kid News Quiz.
How much did the Grammys raise for wildfire relief?
What interesting substance did paleontologists in Denmark discover in a fossil?
Art collectors think a painting bought at a Minnesota garage sale is by what famous Dutch artist?
In our Kid News kicker, a new study is shining a light on just how long humans and dogs have been best friends, and it's a long time.
Researchers at the University of Arizona believed dogs and people became besties 2 ,000 years earlier than previously thought.
Archaeologists found a dog's lower leg bone from 12 ,000 years ago during a dig in Alaska.
The same team also unearthed a canine jawbone during another dig nearby.
Both specimens show signs of possible adaptation by humans way earlier than first believed and that the dogs ate salmon, which is something they probably did not find on their own, meaning they were likely fed it by humans.
Scientists think early humans tamed wolves in the wild, then bred them so that they eventually became the domesticated dogs we know and love today.
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