Good morning and welcome to Kid News. I'm Kim. Today is Wednesday, August 27, 2025. And we begin with news that comes as a surprise to almost no one.

Pop star Taylor Swift and football player Travis Kelsey are engaged. In a joint Instagram post yesterday, the celebrity couple joked, your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married,

adding a dynamite emoji and a snippet of Ms. Swift's song, So High School.

The pair has been together for two years, shortly after Travis announced on his podcast that

he tried but failed to get a friendship bracelet with his phone number to the singer at a concert.

That caught her attention

and the rest, as they say, is history. At this point, there's no word on when or where the

wedding will take place. A big hang-up for millions of kids headed back to class. Coast-to-coast,

17 more states and the District of Columbia are

ringing in this school year with new smartphone rules. That brings to 35 the number of U.S.

states with laws limiting device use on campus. Most ban phones bell to bell, some only during class.

Regardless, the speed with which these new laws are spreading

is noteworthy. Florida was the first to crack down, and that was only in 2023. Since then,

dozens more have followed suit. Two states bucking the trend, Wyoming and Michigan,

which both recently said no to new limits.

It happens almost every year, but that doesn't make it any less impressive.

A slow-moving, miles-wide, massive dust storm known as a Haboob hit Phoenix, Arizona late Monday,

bringing cars to a standstill, grounding flights, and knocking out power to thousands.

According to the National Weather Service, these kinds of dust storms form when powerful

winds from thunderstorms lift large amounts of silt and debris into the air.

The walls of dirt can measure thousands of feet high, arrive with little warning, drop visibility

to near zero, and as in this case, lead to rain that's like mud.

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