Good morning, and welcome to KidNews! I'm Tori, today is Monday, December 6, 2021.

And we begin with a 10-year-old painter from San Diego, California stealing the spotlight

at Miami's annual art week. Andre's Valencia's collection of 17 abstract portraits sold

within hours at the VIP opening night, at least one went to modern family actress and

a-lister Sofia Vigaria. The paintings range from $5,000 to $20,000, but Andre's art representative

said the young artist doesn't understand what all the fuss is about. His passion kicked

in shortly after he saw the film about painter Jean-Michel Basquiat. And told his dad,

I can do that! The fourth grader works on instinct. He doesn't sketch first, he dives right

in to whatever he's painting. And music seems to help his process. He listens to the Beatles,

Michael Jackson, Freddie Mercury, and Jimmy Hendrix, while he works. According to an industry

expert, it's the art world's responsibility to find the next-grade artist, and we've done

that with Andre's, he's gone global in 36 hours. A war hero and political giant has passed away,

and while you might not know his name, your parents, and grandparents' sure-do, Bob Dull was a

three-time presidential candidate, a U.S. Senator for 27 years, and a lifelong major force in

the Republican Party. But for all his political accomplishments, he wanted to be remembered as a

veteran who served his country during World War II, particularly as a soldier who lost the use of

his right arm on the battlefield in Italy. Senator Dull died yesterday at the age of 98.

An asteroid bigger than Paris's Eiffel Tower is getting NASA's attention this week,

Space Rock 4660 is due to skim-passed Earth on Saturday at a speed of 14,000 miles per hour.

4660 is raised eyebrows before. In fact, it comes by so frequently that space experts in the U.S.

and Japan once considered teaming up to punch it off course. But they've since determined that

it'll stay a safe 2.4 million miles away, meaning we Earthlings have nothing to worry about.

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