Good morning and welcome to Kid News. I'm Kim. Today is Thursday December 27th

2018 and we begin with a newly signed Major League Baseball player thanking

his parents for their years of support in a Major League baseball player

baseball player

in a major league way.

Pitcher Brady Singer used his 4.2 million dollar signing

bonus with the Kansas City Royals to pay off his mom and dad's mortgage and all of their credit card debt.

Brady said he can't possibly repay all the travel, gear, hotel, food, and gatorades,

but that this was a start.

And now he says his parents can spend their money on themselves.

The 22 year old was the SEC pitcher of the year with an 11 and one record 98 strikeouts and a the President Trump caught everyone off guard yesterday with a surprise visit to

see American soldiers serving in Iraq. The President and First Lady Malania

took a secret overnight flight. touched down in darkness in Baghdad, and spent

three hours talking with troops and taking selfies.

The visit is his first as President to a combat zone. He said he wanted to go weeks ago, but word leaked out, and for security reasons he had to postpone the trip.

There are 5,000 soldiers still on the ground in Iraq, and he says he has no intention of pulling them out.

Mr. Trump announced last week that he is withdrawing all U.S. troops from neighboring Syria.

The man with the golden arm is at long last retiring.

81 year old Australian James Harrison has donated life saving blood every week for the past six decades. Doctors credit him with saving the lives of 2.4 million

babies because his plasma contains an extremely rare antibody that doctors use to develop medicine critical for newborns with

the blood disorder known as Reese's disease.

The super donor began his mission after he underwent major chest surgery and depended on the blood of strangers to save his life when he was just 14 years old.

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