Michelle Obama writes in her new book that she “overcame a teleprompter mishap during her first major live televised speech at the 2008 Democratic National Convention,” Insider reports. Write Obama: “I was standing there on live television, knowing I was supposed to speak for 16 minutes straight.

Michelle Obama told the BBC that Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential election win “still hurts” and even made her question her husband’s legacy. Said Obama: “When I’m in my darkest moment, right, my most irrational place, I could say: ‘Well maybe not, maybe we weren’t good enough.’”

“A noose was found at the construction site of the new Obama Presidential Center in Chicago — a startling discovery that caused construction to pause on former President Barack Obama’s $830-million legacy project,” USA Today reports.

“Obama is the sole party leader able to draw major base-motivating crowds without simultaneously angering the other side,” the Washington Post reports.

“Barack Obama is trying to do something he couldn’t during two terms as president: help Democrats succeed in national midterm elections when they already hold the White House,” the AP reports. “Of course, he’s more popular than he was back then, and now it’s President Joe Biden, Obama’s former vice