Good morning and welcome the kid news. I'm Tori. It's Tuesday, October 23rd, 2018.

And we begin with the voice of two of Sesame Street's most popular characters finally calling it quits.

Carol Spinni has been playing the parts of Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch since the longest

running children's TV program began in 1969, but last week he retired after a half century on the job.

New performers will take over, but Spinni says he'll always hang on to the playful spirit the roles required.

He says he loved pretending to be a six-year-old for 50 years.

Long before Sir Richard Branson became a billionaire businessman, he was labeled as one of the slow

learners in his school.

It wasn't until he was in his 20s he discovered he had dyslexia, which means someone

of normal intelligence has a hard time reading.

He later co-founded the charity made by dyslexics to help change perceptions of people with

dyslexia.

Yesterday the organization held its first global summit and

introduced a variety of new tools to help those with dyslexia find new ways to

learn how to read. Among the famous people with the disorder are Apple founder Steve jobs, physics genius

Albert Einstein, Thomas Edison who invented, among other things, the electric light bulb, and

movie mogul Stephen Spielberg.

As kids are getting more involved in major issues affecting their lives, there's a growing

movement to lower the voting age from 18 down to 16. Supporters of this move say

this age group should have a say in laws that affect them like education

policy and many are already taxpayers since they hold down jobs.

But critics who don't like the idea of lowering the voting age say these young people are not

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