By Kaylany Minaya, age 10 and IndyKids staff Orangutans are apes which are found deep in the forests of Indonesia. Orangutans only live on two islands, Sumatra and Borneo in Indonesia; however, 100 years ago, they could be found all around Southeast Asia. With an arm span of up to seven feet, they have no …
By Clara Wong, age 14 On March 9, Biden proposed a minimum 25% tax rate to be imposed upon America’s billionaires, referred to as the “billionaire tax.” Billionaires are not thrilled. Every year, the president submits a fiscal budget to Congress that holds documents containing information on government funding. All budgetary publications must then be …
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By Aisha Siddiqa Hassim, age 13 Earlier this year, parts of Turkey and Syria faced two catastrophic earthquakes. The combined effects of these earthquakes were disastrous and resulted in the death of over 50,000 people. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is facing criticism over the lack of preparedness and slow response after the earthquakes. The …
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Muhammad Hasnain Hassim, age 11 and IndyKids staff The world’s governments reached an agreement on March 4, 2023, at the United Nations on the new High Seas Treaty, an international pact to protect marine life and stop pollution in the high seas. The high seas are international waters where no country’s government has rules restricting …
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By Yoremaily Maldonado, age 10 and IndyKids staff Pharmaceutical companies will no longer be required to test new drugs on animals, thanks to a new law passed earlier this year. Animal rights advocates have been petitioning for years to overturn the 85-year-old law that required companies to test new drugs on animals to see if …
By Maliyah Ledesma, age 11 and IndyKids staff In the world we live in today, we rely on technology more by the second, so it’s easy for young folks to get lost mindlessly scrolling. This is why social media platform TikTok announced in March that they would be implementing a new default setting with safeguards …
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BY Nadya Serrano, age 9 Adhara Pérez, an 11-year-old girl from Veracruz, Mexico, is now one of Forbes’ 100 most powerful women in Mexico. At just 9 years old, her IQ was already 162, which is two whole points higher than Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking and 70 points higher than the average person! She …
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By Abigail Bodden, age 10 Judy Heumann, known as “the mother” of the disability rights movement, passed away on March 5, 2023. Heumann was a lifelong advocate for disability rights internationally. In 1977, she led a 26-day sit-in in San Francisco, which paved the way for the Americans with Disabilities Act, which now protects disabled …
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