Good morning and welcome to Kid News. I'm Tori. Today is Wednesday, January 2nd, 2019.

And we begin with a 16-year-old on track to graduate both high school and college in the same month.

Braxton Morale is a senior at Ulysses High School in Ulysses, Kansas.

He'll graduate there on May 19th before heading to Harvard

to collect his bachelor's degree on May 30th.

Braxton has been attending the Ivy League School's online extension program

since he was 11 when classes in his town could no longer keep up with his advanced math and English abilities.

Next stop he hopes is Harvard Law School, which if he gets in, he plans to finish by the time he's 20.

In political news, a major Democrat is dipping her toes in presidential waters.

Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren is forming a committee to explore her chances of running against

President Trump in 2020.

She's the biggest name so far to take this big of a step towards a campaign.

The move means she can start raising money and hiring staff.

These days it seems the best way to get a message out there is to post it on social media

and the desperate search for a kidney is no different.

Raymond Thompson stuck a sign to his backpack that read,

In need of a kidney for my wife,

blood type B positive, with his phone number.

Then he ran errands.

Unbeknownst to him, an editor with CNN

saw him in Target, snapped a photo,

tweeted it, and watched it go viral.

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