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East News:

Local News:

The Kansas City Chiefs won Super Bowl LVII against the Philadelphia Eagles 38-35 on Feb. 12 and hosted a parade in celebration.

After three days of celebrating, the players came home on Feb.15 for the Victory Parade. The parade started at noon and featured the Chiefs players, head coach Andy Reid, cheerleaders and local government officials.

The parade route started on 6th Street and Grand Boulevard, running down Grand until finally reaching Union Station where the parade ended around 1:30 p.m. Fifteen minutes later, a pep rally was held at Union Station as a final celebration with speeches from players Patrick Mahomes, Travis Kelce, Andy Reid and Nick Bolton about the success of their recent season.

According to an Instagram poll, an estimated 65 East students out of the 152 voters attended the parade, each having a different and unique experience, one of which being sophomore Ted Smith.

“We got to the parade around 7:45 in the morning,” Smith said. “The best part about the parade though was probably being on Fox 4 News and getting to tell the news reporter how our day was and yelling, ‘Go Chiefs!’ into the camera.”

National News:

The United States was put on high alert on Feb. 4 when a national alarm was triggered due to a U.S. F-22 fighter jet shooting down a Chinese “spy balloon” off the coast of South Carolina — triggering more takedowns of flying objects.

Since then, a U.S. fighter jet has shot down another unidentified flying object on Feb. 10. This object was brought down over the waters of Alaska and broke into pieces after being shot, according to The New York Times. A White House official additionally confirmed the object was the size of a small car. This left the question of what was really shot down.

Another unidentified object was shot down over the Yukon territory bordering Alaska by an American fighter on Feb. 11, according to The New York Times. It was described as cylindrical and small by a Canadian official.

An object that was first seen over Montana on Feb. 11 reappeared on Feb. 12 and was shot down over Lake Huron, off of Michigan, according to The New York Times.

“If I could do something different about this whole situation, I wouldn’t worry about the public’s opinions,” science teacher Susan Hallstrom said. “If the [unidentified objects] were over American airspace, we have the right to shoot them down — as other countries have the right to shoot ours down..”