Here some headlines from Cheddar News that are Good 2 Know.
LINCOLN MEMORIAL EXPANDS
The National Park Service is set to expand the Lincoln Memorial with a new exhibit space underneath the iconic monument. The exhibits will highlight the history of the monument as a backdrop throughout the Civil Rights movements. Singer Marian Anderson sang at the Lincoln Memorial to a crowd of 75,000 people after being denied the right to perform at a Washington, D.C. concert hall in 1939. The new space is set to open in 2026 ahead of the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
MARDI GRAS BEGINS
Break out the King Cake. It's Fat Tuesday and the start of Mardi Gras in New Orleans. Mardi Gras is the last day to revel in food and drink before Ash Wednesday, which marks the beginning of lent. Over the years, the celebration has evolved into a citywide party featuring foods, dance crews, and elaborate floats.
TIKTOK TRIVIA
TikTok is hosting a series of live trivia events this week, starting tomorrow and running through Sunday. All users who are 18 or older can play. Each round will be live-streamed on the app. The questions will be multiple choice with categories such as beauty, sports, lifestyle, music, and entertainments. Players will have a chance to win a pooled prize worth $500,000. The rounds will be held twice a day from 8-9 p.m. and from 9-10 p.m. ET.
Graduation season is upon us, and many families are getting ready to shell out for the big celebrations. However, graduation parties don't have to break the bank. Cheddar News spoke with Lindsey Peers, owner of The Craft Studio, for some advice on how to decorate on the cheap, from reusing ribbons from the holidays from homemade step-and-repeats for photos.
A fake image of an explosion at the Pentagon made its rounds on Twitter Monday, causing a lot of confusion and a brief dip in the stock market
Police have arrested a man they believe intentionally crashed a U-Haul truck into a security barrier at a park across from the White House.
A jury two weeks ago decided that Trump had sexually abused Carroll at an upscale Manhattan department store in early spring 1996.
Arizona, California and Nevada on Monday proposed a plan to significantly reduce their water use from the drought-stricken Colorado River over the next three years, a potential breakthrough in a year-long stalemate that pitted Western states against one another.
Robin Arzón, bestselling author and vice president of fitness programming and head instructor at Peloton, left her corporate job to get into fitness. Now she helps motivate Peloton's huge community every day.
Smoke from dozens of raging wildfires in western Canada has drifted south into the United States and prompted the states of Colorado and Montana to issue air quality alerts.
Three people were killed and six wounded in bar shootings early Sunday morning in Kansas City, Mo., and Birmingham, Ala.
The laws are “openly hostile toward African Americans, people of color and LGBTQ+ individuals," the NAACP wrote over the weekend.
U.S. Customs and Border Patrol said 8-year-old Anadith Tanay Reyes Alvarez was seen at least three times by medical personnel, which does not contradict her mother's claims that CBP staff refused to hospitalize the girl, who had heart problems and sickle cell anemia.
