- Jill Biden’s new memoir, View from the East Wing, recalls an awkward shared car ride with Melania Trump on Inauguration Day.
- Committee member John Bessler tried to break the tension with small talk — topics included Barron Trump’s college, the weather and a quip about military dogs.
- The two first ladies have had only a few interactions over the years, mostly brief meetings (including at the Carters’ funerals) and limited White House exchanges.
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- Major Peter Weaver was an SAS pioneer who parachuted into occupied France before D‑Day and miraculously escaped a German attack in which only eight of his team survived.
- He was among the first troops to reach and photograph Bergen‑Belsen — an experience that haunted him, though he rarely spoke about it.
- His story is now the subject of a new book by Dr Will Ward and will feature in the BBC’s next SAS Rogue Heroes series; his daughter remembers him as courageous and quietly reliable.
- Scholars uncovered a digitized 9th‑century manuscript in Rome that contains Caedmon’s Hymn — the oldest surviving English poem — tucked into the main Latin text of Bede’s history.
- The find pushes evidence of English in major medieval manuscripts back by about three centuries, showing the language’s importance much earlier than thought.
- The book wandered from an Italian abbey through private collectors to Rome and is now digitized and publicly available, so more surprises could be waiting.
- Utah children's author Kouri Richins was convicted of killing her husband with fentanyl and faces decades to life at her sentencing Wednesday.
- Her three young sons told the court they'd feel unsafe if she were released, saying they don't miss her and describing ongoing trauma from their father's death.
- Prosecutors say she had a financial motive—multiple life-insurance policies and millions in debt—and note she published a children's book about a boy coping with a father's death shortly before her arrest.
- Joanna Stern, NBC’s chief technology analyst, spent a year diving into AI and tested more than 100 AI products.
- She wrote a book about the experience: "I Am Not a Robot: My Year Using AI to Do (Almost) Everything."
- Her main takeaway: stay in control of AI — "I will work with AI but I am not working for it."
- Justice Neil Gorsuch warned that ongoing leaks of Supreme Court deliberations undermine the justices' ability to have candid internal conversations.
- The court has seen several high-profile leaks lately — notably a 2022 draft overturning Roe v. Wade and memos about the court’s increased use of its emergency ("shadow") docket.
- Gorsuch is also promoting a new children's book on the Declaration of Independence, timed for the U.S. 250th anniversary.
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