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Bird Bird puppeteer Caroll Spinney, left, and Muppets designer/builder Kermit Love are seen in the documentary 'I Am Big Bird.'(Photo: Debra Spinney)
1. Big Bird is an 81-year-old man, sort of
Caroll Spinney, 81, has no plans of retiring as the man behind Big Bird. For 45 years, Spinney has brought the 8-foot-3 Sesame Street character to life. Tuesday, the documentary I Am Big Bird is available on iTunes (it opens in select cities later this month). Things you should know: Spinney has to hold Big Bird's head up with his right hand, a tiring job during performances. Big Bird has a monitor in his neck so Spinney can see. Though Spinney is an octogenarian, the bird he plays is a child.
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The new documentary 'I Am Big Bird' profiles Caroll Spinney, the actor who has embodied 'Sesame Street''s famous Big Bird for decades. (May 1) AP
2. Panera announces the 'unacceptable' ingredients it will eliminate
Panera is calling it the "No-No List": 150 artificial additives the fast-casual chain has removed or plans to remove from its foods by the end of 2016. Panera will be the first national restaurant chain to post such a list publicly when it does so on Tuesday. The move is a next step that follows an announcement Panera made less than a year ago to ultimately eliminate all artificial additives from its menu.
A Panera store in Needham, Mass.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>(Photo: Josh T. Reynolds for USA TODAY)
3. Huckabee enters presidential race, eats pizza
Mike Huckabee will make an official announcement about entering the 2016 race Tuesday. On Thursday, he's scheduled to appear at a Pizza Ranch in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Why? Pizza Ranch, a chain of Midwest pizza buffets, is a Huckabee good luck charm. It's where politicians court Iowa voters. Huckabee glad-handed heavily at Pizza Ranches ahead of his 2008 Iowa victory. So did Rick Santorum before he won the caucuses in 2012. So far in the 2016 cycle, Huckabee leads the way in Pizza Ranch stops with three — no other candidate has done more than one.
4. Many expect to never retire at all
It may be time to redefine retirement. A new survey of American workers found that 82% of the respondents expect to keep working past the age of 65, or maybe not retire at all. Across all ages, many workers worry that they will be unable to save enough to last their lifetime. Outliving investments and savings was the top retirement concern for 44% of all respondents. And one-third of all workers believe their standard of living will diminish once they stop working.
A new survey of American workers by Transamerica Center for Retirement Studies found that 82% of the respondents expect to keep working past the age of 65, or maybe not retire at all.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>(Photo: Thinkstock by Getty Images)
5. 'Charlie Hebdo' to get prestigious free speech award
Writers group PEN America is honoring the magazine and the surviving staff of Charlie Hebdo with its prestigious Freedom of Expression Courage Award at its gala Tuesday in New York — a decision that has not been without controversy. When PEN announced its decision in March, more than 200 members of the group protested. It was at the offices of Charlie Hebdo that an assault by Muslim extremists in January left 12 people dead, including the publication's top editor and a number of prominent cartoonists.
An early morning commuter walks past a newsstand displaying the new edition of the French satirical paper "Charlie Hebdo" at Gare du Nord train station in Paris on Feb. 25, 2015.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>(Photo: Ian Langsdon, European Pressphoto Agency)
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Weather: The East Coast will continue its warm spell while severe storms pelt portions of the central U.S.
Stocks: U.S. stock futures were lower Tuesday.
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