LNGenZ News for Kids: Current Events

Nearly a century after the Salem Witch Trials plunged New England into hysteria, a new fear gripped the region: vampires. As a mysterious illness spread, leaving its victims pale, feverish, and coughing up blood, many came to believe something far… Read More

Sloths are dog-sized animals that live in the tropical rainforests of Central and South America. They are known for moving very slowly – this is due to their extremely low metabolic rate. Because sloths do not move well on the… Read More

Julia Tyler didn’t just step into the role of first lady. She marched in with music, dancing, and a makeover plan for the White House. At only 24 years old, she became one of the youngest first ladies in US… Read More

From the “Headless Horseman” to the Bell Witch, the United States has never been short on ghost stories. Passed down from generation to generation, hauntings are woven into the fabric of American folklore.  One of the most famous legends is… Read More

Astronomers have discovered another “moon” orbiting the Sun with the Earth. It’s small and asteroid-like with a track similar to Earth’s orbit around the Sun. Astronomers have named the object 2025 PN7, informally referred to as “Buwan,” which is Tagalog… Read More

A lot happened in the world this week – Make sure you didn’t miss it with Liberty Nation GenZ’s weekly news roundup! Sunday, October 19, 2025 Anti-Trump ‘No Kings’ Rallies Held Across the Country Numerous anti-Trump “No Kings” rallies were held across… Read More

There are Halloween traditions galore: trick-or-treating, dressing up in boo-tiful costumes, watching scary movies, visiting haunted houses, and especially carving faces on pumpkins. Why pumpkins? Apparently, the concept was adopted by the Irish and takes us back about 200 years… Read More

More than 300 years ago, Salem Village, MA, was the site of one of America’s most infamous cases of mass hysteria: the Salem Witch Trials. Hundreds were accused of witchcraft between 1692 and mid-1693, the crime being one that carried… Read More

Earth may be the biggest of the inner planets, but it has nothing on the giants of the outer solar system. And there’s no planet in the system bigger than the fifth from the sun, Jupiter. But that isn’t the… Read More

Imagine someone who loved the sound of waves breaking on the shore, the chatter of a busy street, and the soft rustle of grass underfoot, and then turned all those sounds into poetry. That person was Walt Whitman. He was… Read More

Every year, as autumn’s chill creeps in and darkness falls a little sooner, Americans revisit one of the nation’s oldest ghost stories: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. Washington Irving’s tale, first published in 1820, has stood the test of time,… Read More

A lot happened in the world this week – Make sure you didn’t miss it with Liberty Nation GenZ’s weekly news roundup! Sunday, October 12, 2025 Trump Directs Hegseth to Use ‘Available Funds’ to Pay Troops President Donald Trump directed War Secretary… Read More