Good morning and welcome to Kid News. I'm Tori. It's Tuesday, September 4th, 2018,

and we began this morning with a company that is now also a verb

celebrating its 20th birthday.

Google was the brainchild of Sergei Bryn and Larry Page.

They met at Stanford and set up their brand new business in a California garage.

Now the search engine, which also owns YouTube and Google Maps, is used by more than 1 billion people in a hundred countries,

which is probably why Miriam Webster had no choice but to add to Google something to the dictionary as a verb in 2006.

And while the company was officially incorporated or made legal on September 4, 1998,

Google has celebrated its birthday on various dates in September, they say, depending on when they feel like having cake.

It's a big day on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. as confirmation hearings begin for Brett Kavanaugh.

He is President Trump's nominee to replace retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy on the nation's highest court.

The Senate's Judiciary Committee is expected to spend four

days asking Mr. Kavanaugh about legal issues and his previous decisions as a judge on the

U.S. Court of Appeals. The Supreme Court's next term starts in three weeks.

History went up in flames this weekend.

A massive fire tore through Brazil's National Museum, taking with it more than 20 million pieces of art and artifacts dating back some 11,000 years.

Firefighters raced against time to save the relics, which included Egyptian mummies and priceless

paintings, but reportedly got a slow start because two hydrants near the museum weren't

working.

Brazil's president calls the loss insurmountable.

If you were traveling on a plane over the Labor Day holiday, you weren't alone.

A record 16.5 million people were expected to fly on U.S.

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