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Score up to 42% off a kid-friendly Amazon Fire tablet
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Sure, you can give your child a hand-me-down tablet and hope for the best. But you may want to reconsider; we’ve just found an impressive new set of deals for kid-friendly tablets. These models come with a durable case, parental controls and content that’s age appropriate. Amazon’s kid-friendly tablets are real standouts, thanks to unlimited access to the Amazon Kids+ service for one year, plus a two year, worry-free guarantee for parents. For a limited time, Amazon has slashed prices by up to 42%.
For more help choosing a kids-friendly tablet, check out our lineup of the five best tablets for kids in 2024.
For 3- to 7-year-olds: Amazon Fire Kids tablets
These three Amazon Kids tablets all share pretty much the same design and functionality, but what differs is their screen size, resolution and battery life. All offer an ad-free experience.
Want even more savings than what you see here? If you have a tablet to trade in, Amazon will give you an Amazon gift card for the appraised value of the tablet — and you’ll also get an additional 20% off the purchase price of any new Amazon Fire tablet.
Amazon Fire HD 7 Kids: $55 (42% off)
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For a limited time, save 42% on this durable tablet for kids ages 3 to 7. This Amazon Fire HD 7 Kids tablet offers a seven-inch touchscreen, three color options (blue, purple or red) and either 16GB or 32GB of internal storage. This can be expanded up to 1TB using an optional microSD memory card.
Battery life is up to 10 hours. This version of Amazon’s kid-friendly tablet comes with a six-month subscription to the Amazon Kids+ service, which includes unlimited access to a vast library of curated, age-appropriate content.
If you want the typical 12-month subscription to Amazon Kids+ that’s included with Amazon’s other kid-friendly tablets, the tablet’s price goes up to $70 (which represents a 36% savings).
Amazon Fire HD 8 Kids: $100 (33% off)
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Also designed for kids between 3 and 7, this version of the Amazon Fire HD tablet is on sale. Snag it for 33% off for a limited time. This model comes with your choice of four cases — solid blue, solid purple, a Mickey Mouse theme or a Disney princess theme. (The Mickey Mouse and Disney Princess-themed cases boost the price of the tablet by $10.)
In addition to the full-color, eight-inch touchscreen, this model offers up to a 13-hour battery life and your choice of 32GB or 64GB of internal storage. The 64GB version is on sale for 28% off, bringing the price down to $130. This can be expanded anytime with an optional microSD memory card.
The Amazon Fire HD 8 Kids comes with a one-year subscription to Amazon Kids+, along with the durable case and a two-year worry free guarantee. The tablet offers an ad-free experience, plus integrated parental controls. Once the one-year Amazon Kids+ subscription ends, it can be renewed for $4.99 a month with no contract.
Amazon Fire 10 Kids: $150 (21% off)
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Featuring a full-color, 10.1-inch touchscreen, this version of the Amazon Kids tablet is currently on sale for $150, which represents a discount of 21%. Choose between a case that’s solid blue, solid purple, Mickey Mouse-themed or Disney princess-themed. (The Mickey Mouse and Disney princess-themed cases boost the price of the tablet by $10.)
The tablet comes with 32GB of internal storage (which can be expanded at any time using an optional microSD memory card). Battery life is up to 13 hours. This 11th generation version of the Amazon Fire 10 Kids tablet was upgraded in 2023. It’s now 25% faster than the previous version.
For 6- to 12-year olds: Amazon Fire Kids Pro tablets
These two Amazon Fire Kids Pro tablets cater to a slightly older age group. In addition to all of the features and functions in the other Amazon Fire Kids tablets, these offer limited and filtered access to the internet.
Amazon Fire HD 8 Kids Pro: $100 (33% off)
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Ideal for kids in the 6-to-12 age group, the Amazon Fire Kids Pro tablet provides an ad-free experience, one year of access to the Amazon Kids+ service, a two-year worry-free guarantee for parents and a kid-friendly case. For a limited time, save 33% on this version of the Amazon Fire HD 8 Kids Pro tablet.
Choose between a teal, cyber blue or rainbow-colored case. These cases are a bit thinner than those offered with the tablets for younger kids.
The Amazon Fire HD 8 Pro features a full-color, eight-inch touchscreen. It comes with 32GB of internal storage (which can be expanded up to 1TB using an optional memory card). Battery life is up to 13 hours. The content from Amazon Kids+ is age-appropriate and caters to this slightly older audience.
One thing that sets the “Pro” models apart is limited and filtered web browsing, as well as a built-in webcam. Users can do video calls with pre-approved contacts. These tablets also offer access to the Alexa digital assistant.
Amazon Fire HD 10 Kids Pro: $150 (21% off)
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Designed with kids between 6 and 12 in mind, the Amazon Fire HD 10 Kids Pro is the most advanced tablet in the Amazon Fire Kids lineup. For a limited time, you can purchase it for just $150 (that’s 21% off).
Your child will get a 10.1-inch, 1080p resolution touchscreen, 32GB of internal storage (which can be upgraded up to 1TB using an optional microSD memory card) and up to a 13-hour battery life.
Choose between three case themes — nebula, mint or “happy day.” This tablet includes everything that the Amazon Fire HD 8 Kids Pro offers, but features a larger display.
A few of the optional accessories available for this tablet include a detachable Bluetooth keyboard ($35) and wireless headphones ($25).
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Hollywood actor Keanu Reeves made his professional auto racing debut on Saturday at the famed Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
“The Matrix” star, who qualified 31st out of 35 cars, ran as high as 21st before a single-car crash a little more than halfway through the 45-minute race briefly stopped him in his tracks.
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The 60-year-old spun into the grass without a collision on the exit of Turn 9 when he had about 21 minutes of racing left. He re-entered the course and continued driving, signaling he was uninjured.
Reeves finished 25th.
The actor is competing at Indianapolis in the Toyota GR Cup, a Toyota spec-racing series and a support series for this weekend’s Indy 8 Hour sports car event. He has a second race on Sunday.
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He is driving the No. 92 BRZRKR car, which is promoting his graphic novel “The Book of Elsewhere.” He is teammates with Cody Jones from “Dude Perfect.”
Reeves has previous racing experience as a former participant in the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach in the celebrity race. Reeves won the event in 2009.
A passenger successfully landed a small plane on Friday after the pilot had a medical emergency, the Federal Aviation Administration said.
The twin-engine Beechcraft King Air 90 was traveling from Henderson Executive Airport in Las Vegas, Nevada to Monterey Regional Airport in California, with a pilot and one other person on board, the FAA said.
The pilot suffered an unspecified medical emergency while flying, the FAA said, forcing the passenger to take the controls and make an emergency landing at Meadows Field Airport in Bakersfield, California.
The Kern Fire Department told CBS News affiliate KBAX that firefighters were called to a report of a medical emergency on the plane. The pilot was reported to be “incapacitated,” the fire department said. Firefighters saw the plane approach and land safely, then “chased” the plane down the runway in emergency vehicles to meet it.
The FAA did not release the passenger or pilot’s identities nor give an update on the pilot’s condition. The pilot was taken to an area hospital by ambulance. The passenger did not report any injuries.
The FAA and the National Transportation Security Board will investigate the incident, the FAA said.
Congolese authorities began vaccination against mpox on Saturday, nearly two months after the disease outbreak that spread from Congo to several African countries and beyond was declared a global emergency by the World Health Organization.
The 265,000 doses donated to Congo by the European Union and the U.S. were rolled out in the eastern city of Goma in North Kivu province, where hospitals and health workers have been overstretched, struggling to contain the new and possibly more infectious strain of mpox.
Congo, with about 30,000 suspected mpox cases and 859 deaths, accounts for more than 80% of all the cases and 99% of all the deaths reported in Africa this year. All of the Central African nation’s 26 provinces have recorded mpox cases. Officials in Congo previously told CBS News that they’ve struggled to diagnose patients and provide basic care in the vast country of 100 million people, where a fragile, under-resourced healthcare system is also burdened by the stigma associated with the virus.
Although most mpox infections and deaths recorded in Congo are in children under age 15, the doses being administered are only meant for adults and will be given to at-risk populations and front-line workers, Health Minister Roger Kamba said this week.
“Strategies have been put in place by the services in order to vaccinate all targeted personnel,” Muboyayi ChikayaI, the minister’s chief of staff, said as he kicked off the vaccination.
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At least 3 million doses of the vaccine approved for use in children are expected from Japan in the coming days, Kamba said.
Mpox, also known as monkeypox, had been spreading mostly undetected for years in Africa before the disease prompted the 2022 global outbreak that saw wealthy countries quickly respond with vaccines from their stockpiles while Africa received only a few doses despite pleas from its governments.
However, unlike the global outbreak in 2022 that was overwhelmingly focused on gay and bisexual men, mpox in Africa is now being spread via sexual transmission as well as through close contact among children, pregnant women and other vulnerable groups, Dr. Dimie Ogoina, the chair of WHO’s mpox emergency committee, recently told reporters.
More than 34,000 suspected cases and 866 deaths from the virus have been recorded across 16 countries in Africa this year. That is a 200% increase compared to the same period last year, the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.
A lack of diagnostic materials and basic medicines to treat the virus, which can improve survival rates, have also hampered efforts to contain the outbreak, and access to vaccines remains a challenge.
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The continent of 1.4 billion people has only secured a commitment for 5.9 million doses of mpox vaccines, expected to be available from October through December, Dr. Jean Kaseya, head of the Africa CDC, told reporters last week. Congo remains a priority, he said.
At the vaccination drive in Goma, Dr Jean Bruno Kibunda, the WHO representative, warned that North Kivu province is at a risk of a major outbreak due to the “promiscuity observed in the camps” for displaced people, as one of the world’s biggest humanitarian crisis caused by armed violence unfolds there.
The news of the vaccination program brought relief to many in Congo, especially in hospitals that had been struggling to manage the outbreak. Doctors with several charities working in the country have told CBS News they’re overstretched and short on supplies, even having to use tents and mattresses on the floor of makeshift isolation wards to treat a constant influx of patients.
“If everyone could be vaccinated, it would be even better to stop the spread of the disease,” said Dr. Musole Mulambamunva Robert, the medical director of Kavumu Hospital, one of the mpox treatment centers in eastern Congo.
Eastern Congo has been beset by conflict for years, with more than 100 armed groups vying for a foothold in the mineral-rich area near the border with Rwanda. Some have been accused of carrying out mass killings.
