LNGenZ News for Kids: Current Events

Most 19-year-olds spend their days preparing for college courses or finding a job. Those are noble goals – but not for Zara Rutherford. Instead, the ambitious teenager completed her pilot courses and successfully flew solo around the world. In doing… Read More

A new crinkle has been added to global supply chain problems: a potato shortage. It has not been a spud-tacular 12 months in the world economy, with prices rising and many products missing from store shelves. Meat is another product… Read More

Tortoises are such amazing creatures! Not only can they live far longer than any other land animal, they also inspired the ancient Roman military, have two skeletons, and can smell with their throats. Jonathan, a Seychelles Giant Tortoise, has earned… Read More

A team of surgeons recently put a pig’s heart into the body of a man, in the first successful pig heart transplant to a human. The operation was performed at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, and it was… Read More

Computers are getting faster all the time, and so is the internet. Wireless networks across America and the world are evolving into their next stage: 5G. However, it looks like 5G could also cause some problems. Airlines recently sent a… Read More

The James Webb Space Telescope is the largest and most powerful space telescope ever built. It was launched into space on December 25 from French Guiana, South America, but it took a while to fully deploy. It was created in… Read More

“Because of language, man has access to the past and the future. He can express the true and the untrue. Language helps him understand both what is and what could be.” – Wesley Douglass Camp Language is a key part… Read More

I Have a Dream ~ Martin Luther King Jr. 28 August, 1963 I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation. Five… Read More

At the end of 2021, a new version of COVID appeared, and it has quickly become the most common strain of the virus around the world. Called the Omicron variant, it first appeared in southern Africa, and the first known… Read More

As part of his plan to combat the COVID-19 pandemic, President Joe Biden last year ordered some rules on vaccination – but the Supreme Court has stopped one of them from taking effect. In September 2021, the president declared that… Read More

The 37th president of the United States is the only commander-in-chief to resign while in office. Richard Milhous Nixon (1913-1994) did not have an easy presidency due to the Vietnam War, as well as strained relations in China and the… Read More

What can you think of that is about the size of a minivan? While you may be able to come up with several answers to this question, it is unlikely that a nuclear weapon was one of your answers. The… Read More