Good morning, and welcome to Kid News! I'm Tori. It's Tuesday, March 7, 2023, National

Serial Day, and we begin with a deal described as world-changing. More than 190 countries

have reached a landmark agreement to protect the world's oceans. For the first time, there

is now a framework in place to protect fish and other forms of life in international waters.

The wording was finished over the weekend at the United Nations. It's taken nearly

20 years to reach this point, and as reported in the Washington Post, environmental agencies

agree it's an important milestone that will finally provide protection for two-thirds

of the world's waters that lie beyond national boundaries, but it still needs to be ratified

by the UN and could take years to be formally adopted.

Taylor Swift may have just won another Kids Choice Award, but it turns out she is fans

in some pretty powerful places, too. In fact, the current Attorney General of the United

States is a die-hard swifty. Merrick Garland even dropped the title of one of her songs

all too well during a Congressional hearing last week on his Justice Department's investigation

and to Ticketmaster. He first heard Taylor Swift's music through his daughters who insisted

they listened to her songs back when he drove them to school. The AG has all her CDs

on display in his office and tells the Wall Street Journal that his favorite song is

Shake It Off. As for the musical taste of Mr. Garland's recent predecessors, Jeff Sessions

enjoyed Broadway musicals, and William Barr is a big fan of bagpipes.

Three Boeing engineers in St. Louis set a world record having to do with airplanes, but

not the kind we fly in. This one evolves a plane made of paper. The team first spent

months studying origami, the Japanese art of folding paper into decorative shapes. Then

in December, on the third try, they successfully launched the Dart-shaped paper, a record

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