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info at stargloomedia.com. Good morning and welcome to Kid News. I'm Tori. Today is Wednesday, May 21st, 2025. And we begin

with the movie event of the summer. This Friday, Mission Impossible, The Final Reckoning, hits theaters,

and star Tom Cruise swears it'll mark the end of the franchise. It's not called Final for nothing, he told reporters at the

premiere, but it certainly won't be the curtain call on his career. Mr. Cruz told the Hollywood

reporter, I'm going to make movies into my hundreds. I will never stop doing action. That's a big

prediction from an actor who does almost all of his own stunts. He works out five days a week,

maintains a strict diet to stay fit, and eats 15 snacks per day instead of three traditional meals.

The exception is the morning of a big energy-sapping stunt, like hanging off a biplane in mid-air.

For that, he told People magazine,

his breakfast included sausage, bacon, toast, coffee, and nearly a dozen eggs.

A shocking drop in our attention spans.

New research shows that the time we can focus on a single screen has fallen from two and a half minutes in 2004 to just 47 seconds today.

The reason is not only all the pings and posts that pull us to another page, but also the pandemic, which warped our sense of time.

Scientists say our brains are actually hardwired to handle distractions as a matter of survival.

Today, however, we pivot not to outrun a threat, but with every alert, push, or TikTok video.

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