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Transcript Happy birthday Pac-Man! The popular maze videogame is 40 years old. No one could have predicted it would become the most successful arcade game of all time. Here’s a little-known fun fact: it was originally called Puck-Man. But when the game was imported to the US, American distributors feared kids would change the “P”

Transcript NASA is naming a telescope in honor of its first chief astronomer Nancy Grace Roman. Roman was born in 1925 and became fascinated with outer space shortly afterward. In grade school Roman started an astronomy club. Roman says she was repeatedly told women couldn’t be scientist but she didn’t let that prevent her from

Transcript Sunday basketball legend Magic Johnson announced he is providing one hundred million dollars in federal loans for minority and women business owners hit hard by the pandemic. Johnson will provide the money through life insurance company EquiTrust of which he owns a majority. EquiTrust is partnering with lender MBE Capital Partners to distribute the

Transcript Detroit priest Father Timothy Pelc thought he would have a little fun on Easter, while observing social distancing of course, by using a plastic squirt gun to “shoot” congregants with holy water. In mid-April the St. Ambrose Parish church, where Pelc serves, posted the photos to their Facebook page. The priest said him and

Transcript On Friday Virginia Tech’s College of Veterinary Medicine celebrated the Class of 2020 with an online commencement ceremony. But unlike other schools they included a Labrador retriever named Moose in the graduating class who received an honorary doctorate in veterinary medicine. Moose is an 8-year-old therapy dog at Virginia Tech’s Cook Counseling Center. Moose

Transcript This is video from a restaurant in Houston, Texas. You can see there is a pretty sizable crowd packing the restaurant. What is not apparent is if the restaurant is following Texas’ 25% capacity guideline and maintaining a distance of 6 feet from people not in their own party. Many states and countries have

Transcript Here’s a quick recap of the top five inspiring and quirky stories you may have missed as a result of the more serious coronavirus stories. This first story is truly “uplifting.” A woman from Wyoming named Marjorie Clare got a very special surprise for her 70th birthday. Her friends created a bra display in

Transcript We all know Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos is rich. Well guess what? He’s getting richer! According to calculations by a company called Comparisun, by 2026 Bezos is set to become the world’s first trillionaire. Right now he’s worth about $143 billion. That’s up more than $28 billion from last year. Think of

Transcript Be sure to join our friends at DPAN.TV tonight (Saturday) at 8 PM Eastern time for the “Graduate Together 2020” virtual graduation hosted by former President Barack Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama. The event will be interpreted and captioned. The Obamas say over the past few months, they have received dozens of

Transcript Millions of people across the country are asking their landlords for rent relief. Now businesses are doing the same. Starbucks’ CEO sent a letter to landlords of stores all over the country recently asking for a break on rent for a year starting June 1. The coffee company says social distancing because of Covid-19

Transcript Last week the Justice Department decided to drop criminal charges against President Trump’s first national security adviser Michael Flynn, prompting backlash and questions from the legal community. But Wednesday federal judge Emmet Sullivan questioned whether Flynn could be held in contempt of court for perjury. Flynn is accused of lying about his contact with

Transcript Having to explain the pandemic to young children can be difficult. So New York mom Stephanie Trilling is recreating popular children’s book covers to help explain it to kids. Trilling says she decided to paint covers of the classic books and paintings of “cartoonified coronaviruses.” So instead of “Green Eggs and Ham,” it’s “Green