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Today is Wednesday, August 13th, 2025. And we begin with the best 10 to 12-year-old baseball players in the country descending on South Williamsport, Pennsylvania. for the start of a summer tradition.
It's the Little League World Series, which starts today and ends with the championship game on August 25th.
20 teams are competing, 10 from the U.S. and 10 from other countries.
And while most of the attention will be on the Diamond, downtime is spent sledding on cardboard on the hill overlooking Lamedy Stadium.
It hasn't been officially announced, but the Little Leaguers will likely be joined by big league guests. sliders from the Mets and Mariners when they face off Sunday in the annual Little League Classic.
Which as one pro coach told ESPN is a one day reminder of why they fell in love with the game in the first place. there's no talk about swing decisions or analytics there's nothing about money you're thinking i remember when it was this fun Taylor Swift has entered her next era strategically at 12.12 yesterday morning, the 12th of August.
The pop star announced the upcoming release of her 12th album titled The Life of a Showgirl.
The reveal with a blurred album cover came during a pre-taping of boyfriend Travis Kelsey's New Heights podcast. which officially airs today.
Ms. Swift always drops hints. known as Easter eggs, and Swifties likely saw the album coming as the number 12 has been baked into all sorts of posts dating back to last spring.
But a Swedish DJ may have been the first to let the cat out of the bag accidentally.
In an April video talking about his own upcoming remix, he said, we just need to finish Taylor Swift's album and then we'll jump on it.
The clip was taken down almost immediately, but obviously not soon enough.
Do you live in New Hampshire? If so, you're walking above an enormous blob of incredibly hot rock.
Called the Northern Appalachian Anomaly, this big ball of slime sits 124 miles beneath the mountain range in New England. and could be nearly 250 miles wide.
Scientists believe pressure from the heat acts like a carjack, allowing the Appalachian Mountains to stand tall. despite millions of years of erosion.
According to the journal Geology, the hot rock dates back to when Greenland in North America's separated 80 million years ago.
Will it stay put? Nope. It's already on a slow crawl.
Modeling shows it will slide south to New York in about 15 million years.
It's a battle of the BU's. Baylor University is suing Boston University over its logo. specifically the one that uses interlocking letters.
The lawsuit states that Boston University's mark is basically identical or at least confusingly similar to Baylor's. and is asking the court to make Boston University destroy all goods, packaging, signage, internet postings and advertisements that use an interlocking BU logo.
Baylor tried to patent its design in 1987, but Boston University opposed it. and Baylor was only able to get it federally registered, which is not the same as patented.
Both universities then signed an agreement that they must be able to coexist by using the letters BU for their respective universities.
How that applies when the letters interlock is now in the hands of the court.
You can't miss it. The newest and tied for biggest cruise ship in the world pulled into Port Canaveral in Florida last weekend.
Royal Caribbean Star of the Seas was built in Finland, crossed the Atlantic on completion, and will be pressed into service in three days.
It has 20 decks. can carry a mind-boggling 7,600 passengers and according to Royal Caribbean, features the largest water park at sea.
Still to come, his big butt is famous in Bikini Bottom, and now a starfish that looks remarkably like Patrick, Derriere, and all makes waves in the real world but first today's kid news quiz where is the little league world series always held in South Williamsport, Pennsylvania.
What is the name of Taylor Swift's newly announced album?
The life of a showgirl. According to scientists, when will the hot blob of rock under New Hampshire make its way to New York?
In 15 million years, which two BU colleges are battling over their logos?
Baylor University and Boston University.
In today's Kid News Kicker, all SpongeBob fans know Patrick, the pink starfish with the ample backside.
Now researchers operating a remote-controlled vehicle have found the real Patrick deep below the sea near Argentina.
It belongs to the family of starfish known as Hipposterea, which have thick middles and short stubby arms.
During the live stream of the discovery, viewers affectionately nicknamed it Estrella Colonna, Spanish for Big Butt Star. and sent it viral on social media.
But as biologist Mariella Romanelli told a local TV station, it's actual backside isn't where it appears to be.
Still, she calls the resemblance to Patrick hilarious.
We put a link on our website so you can see for yourself.
In all, the expedition captured video of 40 never-before-seen species of sea life.
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