Good morning, and welcome to Kid News. I'm Tori. It's Friday, March 31, 2023, and we begin

with a solemn legal moment for the United States. For the first time in American history,

a former president has been charged with a crime. A New York grand jury has indicted, which means

officially accused former president Donald Trump reportedly for allegedly paying at least one

person to not reveal potentially embarrassing information that could have derailed his election

in 2016. Mr. Trump denies any wrongdoing and says the accusations are politically motivated to

keep him from running again. The former president will have to head to New York to answer the charges.

That's expected to happen sometime next week, but could take place sooner. The case may

influence public opinion, but it is unlikely to have any legal impact on his current presidential

candidacy, even if he is ultimately found guilty. According to the Wall Street Journal,

the US Constitution does not require candidates for the nation's highest office to have a clean record.

The world's happiest country has another reason to smile.

Late yesterday, Finland got the green light to join NATO. The loan holdout on its membership was

Turkey, and that nation's parliament finally voted to let the Norwegian country in. Finland and Sweden

had asked to join NATO last year, and response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine. But the

parliament's of all 30 NATO members must agree before a newcomer is welcomed. Sweden is still waiting

for approval. It's an out-of-this-world school science project. Students in the gifted learning

program at St. Brother Andre School in Ottawa were curious about whether Epipens used to reduce

allergic reactions would work in space. The students knew that here on Earth, radiation from the

sun could change the molecules of the device's medicine, called epinephrine, and they wondered if

the same thing would happen beyond our atmosphere. Their proposed experiment was accepted for a program

called cubes in space. However, the cubes were too small to hold an Epipen, so the team put the

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