<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - Today's News</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/kidspost/news?nav=rss_kidspost/news</link><description>Today's News</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com</link><url>http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[TODAY'S NEWS]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7863-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_kidspost/news</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7863-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_kidspost/news</guid><pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2005 7:55:07 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   Soccer Player, 7, Dies; Second Bus Crash Victim <br> At 7 years old, Harrison Orosco already was a promising soccer player. The Arlington second-grader played on a Bolivian team that recently won a tournament.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[TODAY'S NEWS]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6173-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_kidspost/news</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6173-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_kidspost/news</guid><pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2005 7:55:07 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   All Is Not Ducky For Unlucky Dog <br> Rubber ducks may make bathtime fun, but one duck made mealtime a disaster for a dog in Sweden.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[TODAY'S NEWS]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64465-2005Apr18.html?nav=rss_kidspost/news</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64465-2005Apr18.html?nav=rss_kidspost/news</guid><pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2005 7:55:07 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   A Deadly School Bus Accident in Arlington <br> A 9-year-old girl was killed yesterday and 14 other children were hurt, two of them seriously, when the school bus they were riding in collided with a trash truck.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[TODAY'S NEWS]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55022-2005Apr14.html?nav=rss_kidspost/news</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55022-2005Apr14.html?nav=rss_kidspost/news</guid><pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2005 7:55:07 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   Happy Birthday  --   Want Fries With That? <br> It started with a milkshake maker. But not just any milkshake maker.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[TODAY'S NEWS]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51647-2005Apr13.html?nav=rss_kidspost/news</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51647-2005Apr13.html?nav=rss_kidspost/news</guid><pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2005 7:55:07 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   Trenton Goes Bonkers  For Beluga Whale <br> A geographically challenged beluga whale took a wrong turn and wound up in the Delaware River near Trenton, New Jersey, more than 80 miles from the ocean.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[TODAY'S NEWS]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48190-2005Apr12.html?nav=rss_kidspost/news</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48190-2005Apr12.html?nav=rss_kidspost/news</guid><pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2005 7:55:07 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   You Can't Judge a Book By the Buggy <br> Imagine having to watch out for horse poop while checking a book out from the library.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[TODAY'S NEWS]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45377-2005Apr11.html?nav=rss_kidspost/news</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45377-2005Apr11.html?nav=rss_kidspost/news</guid><pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2005 7:55:07 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  A Mammoth Find In California  <br> Imagine a 12-foot-tall mammoth with six- to seven-foot-long tusks, walking around the suburbs of Los Angeles, California.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[OTHER NEWS]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35702-2005Apr7.html?nav=rss_kidspost/news</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35702-2005Apr7.html?nav=rss_kidspost/news</guid><pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2005 7:55:07 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  An    injured panda  in China received treatment at a human hospital this week. The animal, which veterinarians think broke a chest bone in a fight with another panda, had a CT scan, a special X-ray.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[TODAY'S NEWS]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35701-2005Apr7.html?nav=rss_kidspost/news</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35701-2005Apr7.html?nav=rss_kidspost/news</guid><pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2005 7:55:07 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  NASA Shuttle Program  Prepares for Liftoff <br> There's a space shuttle on the launch pad at Kennedy Space Center in Florida for the first time in more than two years.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[TODAY'S NEWS]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32725-2005Apr6.html?nav=rss_kidspost/news</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32725-2005Apr6.html?nav=rss_kidspost/news</guid><pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2005 7:55:07 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   Dang-Gum-It,  That's One Long Chain! <br> Gary Duschl started making a chain out of gum wrappers when he was in high school. That was 40 years ago. The chain is now 8.72 miles long  --  the length of more than 125 football fields!]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[OTHER NEWS]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32726-2005Apr6.html?nav=rss_kidspost/news</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32726-2005Apr6.html?nav=rss_kidspost/news</guid><pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2005 7:55:07 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  More than    1 million people  have passed by Pope John Paul II's body at the Vatican, despite having to wait in line for as long as 14 hours. The pope will be buried Friday. The cardinals announced yesterday that the meeting to select a new pontiff will begin April 18.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[TODAY'S NEWS]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28376-2005Apr5.html?nav=rss_kidspost/news</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28376-2005Apr5.html?nav=rss_kidspost/news</guid><pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2005 7:55:07 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   What a Bunch of Quacks <br> As lawsuits go, this one is really wacky. Or maybe kwacky.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[TODAY'S NEWS]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26587-2005Apr4.html?nav=rss_kidspost/news</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26587-2005Apr4.html?nav=rss_kidspost/news</guid><pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2005 7:55:07 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  A Medal for Dad <br> Eleven-year-old David Smith yesterday got to meet President Bush, who gave him the nation's most important military medal.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[TODAY'S NEWS]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17342-2005Mar31.html?nav=rss_kidspost/news</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17342-2005Mar31.html?nav=rss_kidspost/news</guid><pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2005 7:55:07 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   Terri Schiavo Dies at 41 <br> Terri Schiavo died yesterday.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[TODAY'S NEWS]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14392-2005Mar30.html?nav=rss_kidspost/news</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14392-2005Mar30.html?nav=rss_kidspost/news</guid><pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2005 7:55:07 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   Learning in Afghanistan <br> Under heavy security, first lady Laura Bush visited Afghanistan yesterday to applaud that nation's efforts to promote equal rights for women and girls.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[OTHER NEWS]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14393-2005Mar30.html?nav=rss_kidspost/news</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14393-2005Mar30.html?nav=rss_kidspost/news</guid><pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2005 7:55:07 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  Visitors to Ireland, take note: A new law in the country's western regions requires that road signs and official maps be printed in    Gaelic, not English . For instance, Dingle in County Kerry is now called An Daingean in Contae an Ciarrai. The patriotic name change affects more than 2,300 sites.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[TODAY'S NEWS]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11324-2005Mar29.html?nav=rss_kidspost/news</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11324-2005Mar29.html?nav=rss_kidspost/news</guid><pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2005 7:55:07 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[    Pittsburgh: It's Where  The Dinosaurs Roam <br> A world-famous dinosaur exhibit, housed in a museum so old it's something of a dinosaur itself, is getting a monstrous new home.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[OTHER NEWS]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11325-2005Mar29.html?nav=rss_kidspost/news</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11325-2005Mar29.html?nav=rss_kidspost/news</guid><pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2005 7:55:07 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The Indonesian island of Nias bore the brunt of Monday's    big earthquake  in the region. One official estimated that about 300 people had died there. Meanwhile, Indonesia's vice president predicted as many as 2,000 deaths when the final count is in.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[TODAY'S NEWS]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8265-2005Mar28.html?nav=rss_kidspost/news</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8265-2005Mar28.html?nav=rss_kidspost/news</guid><pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2005 7:55:07 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[    Indonesian Earthquake Brings Tsunami Fears <br> A major earthquake yesterday in Indonesia had people fleeing for fear of a second tsunami devastating the region.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[TODAY'S NEWS]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64549-2005Mar24.html?nav=rss_kidspost/news</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64549-2005Mar24.html?nav=rss_kidspost/news</guid><pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2005 7:55:07 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  Scientists Shake a Leg With T. Rex, Octopuses <br> Two cool items today from the journal Science: a surprise inside a T. rex bone and moonwalking octopuses.]]></description><author></author></item></channel></rss>