Good morning and welcome to Kid News. I'm Tori. Today is Monday, February 27th, 2023.

And we begin with three high school students in Texas, wowing the world with generosity

for their janitor. 80 year old Mr. James had to unretire last month after his rent went

up. Seeing him struggle to tidy up the hallways didn't sit well with Grayson Thurman, Marta

Yusko, and Banner Tidwell. So they shot video of him on the job, posted it to TikTok, and

linked it to GoFundMe with a caption, let's help Mr. James. No one his age should have

to be cleaning our messes just to continue to live. The campaign clearly hit a nerve. Within

two weeks, the three teens had raised $270,000 to help Mr. James slip back into his golden

years. Jason Hooper is one proud principal. Our kids saw a need, he told CBS Money Watch,

and they went out and met it. Early this morning, barring any weather or technical issues,

four new crew members blasted off toward the International Space Station. Launched for

the Falcon 9 rocket and SpaceX capsule was expected at 145 AM Eastern from the Kennedy

Space Center in Florida. On board, two NASA astronauts, one from the United Arab Emirates,

and a cosmonaut from Russia. It'll take them 25 hours to reach the floating lab, which

puts the schedule docking at around 2.38 AM tomorrow morning. They're high flying

job for the next six months, science experiments, and maintenance. Change isn't easy, and it doesn't

always stick. The publisher behind hundreds of edits to several classic kids' books

by author Roe Adol is now backpedaling after a bruising public backlash. Charlie and the

Chocolate Factory, Matilda, and James and the Giant Peach were among the novels rewritten

to take out what some might consider to be offensive descriptions. But over the weekend,

publisher Penguin announced a compromise. It will continue to print and sell the works

in their original form right alongside the new versions. The unedited books will be

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