Now Walz Is Under Fire for 'Lying' About His Wife Doing IVF (Newser Morning 8)

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August 21, 2024     "Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time." —Thomas A. Edison   1 Prison Mail Worker Opened Letter, Was Dead Within Hours A federal prison inmate and two other people were charged Tuesday with conspiring to mail drugs to a penitentiary in California where a mailroom supervisor died this month after opening a letter that prosecutors said was laced with fentanyl and other substances, the AP reports. Keep reading   2 Now Walz Is Under Fire for 'Lying' About His Wife Doing IVF In March, after an Alabama court halted in vitro fertilization procedures in the state, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz decided to speak about his struggle to have children with his wife, Gwen. Keep reading     At a Glance A European Brown bear is measured during the annual weigh in at ZSL Whipsnade Zoo in Bedfordshire, England, Wednesday Aug. 21, 2024. (Joe Giddens/PA via AP)   3 At DNC, 'Hope Is Making a Comeback' There was a hopeful, upbeat vibe at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago on Tuesday. Keep reading   4 Superyacht's Chef Is Confirmed to Have Died in Sinking The person confirmed dead after a luxury superyacht sank off the coast of Sicily is believed to be chef Recaldo Thomas, one of 10 crew members aboard the vessel. Keep reading   5 RFK Jr.'s Running Mate: We Could Drop Out, Back Trump It seems pretty clear Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is not going to be the next president of the United States of America. Keep reading   6 Barack Obama at DNC: 'Do Not Boo. Vote' Two decades after making his national debut on a Democratic National Convention stage, Barack Obama closed out the second night of the DNC on Tuesday in Chicago, a city particularly meaningful to the former president. Keep reading     7 Democrats Turn Roll Call Into a Dance Party Convention roll call votes can be staid and cheesy, but Democrats turned theirs into the ultimate dance party on Tuesday, the AP reports. Keep reading   8 After Scary Mid-Air Dive, 895 Boeing Planes Must Be Inspected Following a terrifying mid-air dive in March that left more than 50 people injured on a flight from Australia to New Zealand, the Federal Aviation Administration has ordered inspections of the aircraft involved in the LATAM Airlines incident. Keep reading   Today From Newser.AI Trinidad and Tobago Redesigns Coat of Arms See more stories from our human + machine experiment here.   This Day in History On Aug. 21, 1911, Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa" was stolen from the Louvre Museum in Paris. (It was recovered two years later in Italy.) Find out what else happened on this date here.   From the Newser Archives On this day in 2017: President Stares at Sun Without Glasses   Yesterday's Most-Read Stories   From Our Sponsors Manage your subscriptions  |  Unsubscribe from Newser emails  |  Privacy Policy We'd love to hear from you. Send us a note at feedback@newser.com. Read our stories on MSN. Newser, LLC  |  1395 Brickell Avenue  |  Suite 800  |  Miami, Florida  |  33131 © 2024 Newser, LLC. All rights reserved