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Nicole Fallert and Jane Onyanga-Omara here, bringing you the news to know on Friday.
Jill Biden knew something was going disastrously wrong as she watched Joe Biden struggle in the presidential debate that would abruptly end his political career. “Is this a stroke?”she wondered, watching the TV near the CNN studio where President Biden was facing Donald Trump in June 2024. “It felt like we were watching an AI hologram of the man we knew, and the hologram was glitching. Has he been drugged?” “View from the East Wing,” Jill Biden’s memoir, features some of the standard stuff of first lady memoirs. There are other, less traditional notes, too.
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It’s that time of year for caps and gowns as high school students across the country celebrate graduation — and many are taking the opportunity to put individual flair on the classic mortarboard headwear. See the most poignant high school graduation cap decorations from around the nation in photos.
NCAA Sports
The UCLA Bruins are making their second straight Women’s College World Series appearance this week in Oklahoma City. The team features Megan Grant, the Bruins’ two-sport athlete who shattered Lauren Espinoza’s 31-year-old single-season home run record in the Big Ten Softball Tournament and extended it to 40 home runs, outlasting Oklahoma’s Kendall Wells for the record. But here’s why Texas Tech could win it all, too.
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