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Kid News. I'm Tori. Today is Tuesday, March 31st, 2026. And we begin with a KitKat caper in the heart of Europe.

Somewhere between Italy and Poland, a truck vanished.

And with it, more than 413,793 Kit Kat bars weighing roughly 12 tons.

The chocolate-loving thieves may have taken Kit Kat's slogan,

have a break, have a Kit Kat, a little too seriously, because the driver, the vehicle,

and all that deliciousness simply disappeared. Investigators for Nestle are now hunting for

a needle in a haystack, or rather a truck full of chocolate in a continent. Each bar is traceable through

unpack batch numbers, and Kit Kat is asking anyone who spots a match to alert the company.

Europeans who fear getting shorted in their Easter basket need not worry. Despite the candy

crime, Nestle says it still has enough to go around.

What a difference a pay makes. TSA employees began receiving their long-delayed checks yesterday,

and almost immediately the wait times at airports plummeted. After some airports reported four-hour lines last week, screening delays fell to under 30 minutes

at many hubs, as low as three minutes at Atlanta's hard-hit Hartsfield Jackson, and nine

minutes at Houston's George Bush Intercontinental. The Department of Homeland Security began

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