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Kid News. I'm Tori. Today is Tuesday, March 10th, 2026. And we begin with a Paralympian going out of his way to give his

rivals a literal leg up in the competition. In 2008, snowboarder Mike Schultz lost his left limb

above the knee after a snowmobile in crash. Determined not to quit, he began experimenting with

ways to return to sports. Standard prosthetics weren't

cutting it. So even without an engineering degree, Mr. Schultz created the Motone, a prosthetic

with a mountain bike shock absorber. Just a year later, he came in second at the ESPN Summer X

Games, then won gold and silver at the Paralympics in 2018.

Now he's sharing his bionic legs with his competitors.

According to WTNH, up to 90% of lower limb amputees participating in the games use his technology.

Schultz rides this week, after which he says he'll retire from the Paralympics.

Like father, like son? That's the question in Iran this morning after the late Ayatollah Ali Hamani's son,

Mashhtaba Hamani, was named the country's new supreme leader. Not much is known about him. He seldom speaks

or is seen in public, but now he's in charge of Iran's

politics, religion, and armed forces. Some fear he'll continue the hardline, anti-American views of his

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