💬 Quoted… “Like many amateur photographers I occasionally experiment with editing.”

• On Sunday, Kensington Palace released a photo of Princess Kate Middleton and her three children (👆) that it said had been taken by her husband, Prince William, to commemorate Mother’s Day in the UK. But, one day later, Catherine published a statement saying she had altered the photo herself, after five major news and photo agencies had pulled it over concerns the source might have “manipulated the image.” Catherine, who underwent abdominal surgery in January and has rarely been seen in public since, is known as an avid photographer. Experts say the photo details are consistent with an amateur splicing together different images from the same session.

✈️ Stat of the Day: After taking over retail stores across the country, self-checkout lines are now expanding to a new venue: US airports. Starting yesterday, the first self-screening TSA security lane in America began accepting passengers at Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas. The six-month pilot program is aimed at improving the passenger experience and easing the growing burden on the TSA, which has screened between 1.6 million–2.7 million passengers/day so far in 2024 – more than all but three days during the same period last year.

🤔 Did You Know?... The last surviving widow of the Civil War passed away in 2020. How is that possible? Helena Jackson married a 93-year-old Civil War veteran in 1936 (when she was 17😬), and eventually lived to reach the age of 101.

📰 Worth a Read: Hustlers, grifters, and greed: How Run-D.M.C.'s Jam Master Jay met his fatal fate → (NBC News)