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Good morning and welcome to Kid News.
I'm Tori. Today is Tuesday, February 11th, 2025.
And we begin with President Trump making it official.
He wants to pinch the penny.
We first brought you this story last month when the lowly one cent piece caught the ire of Elon Musk, who's now in charge of cutting government waste for costing three times its value to make.
Yesterday, President Trump announced he's asked the U .S.
Treasury to stop producing new ones.
Supporters say it's about time.
It'll save money, speed up checkouts, and other countries like Canada have already phased out their own versions of the one -cent piece.
Opponents worry it'll just make everyday items cost more, since stores will likely raise prices to the nearest nickel.
The Farmer's Almanac weighed in on the debate back in 1989 when it wrote, Only tradition explains our stubborn attachment to the penny, but sometimes traditions get ridiculous.
Teens use tech a lot, but don't necessarily trust it.
The nonprofit organization Common Sense Media surveyed kids from 13 to 18 and found nearly two -thirds think tech companies do not care about their well -being and mental health.
Slightly more than half said they do not think tech companies can be trusted with their personal information, The survey also found about 40 % of teens who used AI for homework assignments found errors or made -up data.
And nearly three out of four say they want AI -generated information or images to be clearly marked as such.
Speaking of AI, there's a conference underway where cheese and croissant are on the agenda along with coding and computation.
This high -profile event, called the Artificial Intelligence Action Summit, is taking place in Paris.
It's bringing together top politicians and tech chiefs to chart a course for AI's future.
For the most part, the conference is focused on the sunnier side of AI, particularly how helpful it could be in the world of medicine and drug development.
To a lesser extent, they're also talking about how to regulate it.
But as conference attendee and New York Times writer Kevin Roos observed, it feels at times like watching policymakers on horseback struggling to install seatbelts on a passing Lamborghini.
As we've been reporting, a trio of cold winter storms is pounding the U .S.
with 200 million people in 40 states expecting snow this week and, in some cases, a lot of it.
Despite the current cold, scientists say last month was the world's warmest January on record, and that has them puzzled.
January 2025 had been expected to be slightly cooler than January 2024 because of a shift away from a natural weather pattern in the Pacific known as El Niño.
But instead, it broke the January 2024 record.
It was only by one -tenth of a degree, but even that small amount has climatologists puzzled because it went against the weather models.
The unexpected increase continues a series of temperature records since mid -2023 that have caught scientists off guard.
Like the goat of gymnastics before her, the most successful skier in history is getting real.
Mikayla Shiffrin announced yesterday that she won't be trying for her 100th World Cup win anytime soon because of PTSD or post -traumatic stress disorder.
Mikayla was seriously injured when she punctured her abdomen with her pole in a fall last November.
She says the recovery has been harder than expected and she's not yet ready to race.
In a post yesterday, she wrote, I'm not there.
Right now, I feel quite far away.
I really didn't anticipate experiencing so much of this kind of mental PTSD struggle.
Coming to terms with how much fear I have doing an event that I love so dearly only two months ago has been soul crushing.
Michaela may still compete, but she says she will stay away from the giant slalom for now.
Still to come, a popular rocker admits to multiple mid -song meltdowns.
But first, today's Kid News Quiz.
How many people in how many states are about to get blasted by snow?
200 million in 40 states.
A big conference taking place in france this week is focused on what technology artificial intelligence what kind of view do today's teens largely have about social media companies two -thirds say they don't think they care about their mental health or well -being which GOAT athlete just announced that PTSD
is keeping her from one of her favorite events.
Skier Michaela Schifrin In today's Kid News Kicker, talk about your temperamental artist.
Music legend Elton John is well known for his sometimes testy temper, but even he admits he was a nightmare working on a soon -to -be -released album with singer Brandi Carlile.
Elton never allows cameras into the recording studio, but he did this time, and they caught him smashing his headphones, snapping at his collaborators and threatening to go home.
Elton says he was tired from touring and insecure about how the album would turn out.
But after realizing it wouldn't be fair to just up and leave, he better managed his emotions and now says he's happy with the results.
The album, Who Believes in Angels, is due out on April 4th.
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