Good morning and welcome to Kid News. I'm Tori. Today is Wednesday, June 5th, 2019, and we begin with a timely reason to brush up on your history.

Today and tomorrow, you'll be seeing a lot of headlines

about the anniversary of D-Day, the day the United States and 11 other nations

teamed up to storm the beaches of France and change the course of World War II.

This morning President Trump will join Queen Elizabeth and other Royals in Portsmouth, England,

which served as a departure port for the attack.

Tomorrow, which is the actual date of D-Day, the president will be in France to honor the landing of the Allied forces in Normandy

exactly 75 years ago.

He'll then meet with French President Emmanuel Macron before returning to the US.

In business news, word that Jay-Z has wrapped his way to billionaire status. In doing so he's become the first

hip-hop artist to cross that threshold, but he didn't do it on music alone.

Mr. Beyonce Knowles has a 70 million dollar stake in Uber, a massive art collection, is part

owner of the streaming service title and owns a bunch of real estate.

Jay-Z grew up in a Brooklyn housing project and rose to fame in 1996 with his debut album,

Reasonable Doubt.

Earlier this year, his six album, 2001's The Blueprint, was added to the Library of Congress's National Recording Registry for being culturally,

historically, or aesthetically significant.

She could have thrown herself a massive high school graduation bash.

Instead, the party she threw was for the homeless.

Leanne Carrasco of Houston enlisted her friends, filled up 400 goody bags with toothbrushes,

toothpaste, hand wipes, and deodorant, ordered 95 pizzas and took all of it to the area's family development center.

There, they served up food, hope, and respect to more than 200 people, after which the recipients gave her a standing ovation.

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