Verbatim

‘This is a dark moment for our nation. We need calm and solidarity.’

Charles Michel, Belgian Prime Minister, after a series of terrorist attacks in Brussels left at least 34 people dead and more than 200 injured

Prince

The musician announced that he’ll release a memoir in 2017

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Prince Andrew

The British royal was accused of illegally ramming through park gates with his car

‘We shouldn’t have to drop to our knees at any point.’

Serena Williams, tennis star, responding to outrage over tennis official Raymond Moore’s statement that female players “ride on the coattails of the men.” Moore, who soon apologized and resigned, had also said, “If I was a lady player, I’d go down every night on my knees and thank God that Roger Federer and [Rafael] Nadal were born”

27

Number of marathons run by Eddie Izzard in as many days. The British comedian’s runs raised more than $1.5 million for charity

$20,655

Final auction price for Adolf Hitler’s personal copy of his autobiography and political manifesto, Mein Kampf

‘I have come here to bury the last remnant of the cold war in the Americas.’

President Obama, addressing the Cuban people and vowing to restart relations between the U.S. and the island nation, during the first visit to Cuba by a sitting U.S. President in 88 years

$500,000

Reported value of two rings that workers at a Missouri waste-disposal facility managed to find amid tons of trash after a couple accidentally threw them out

‘If the method is viable, it should eliminate the need for the assistance from Apple.’

U.S. Federal prosecutors, revealing in a court filing that an “outside party” may have found a way to break into the iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino, Calif., shooters, potentially defusing a pitched legal battle between Apple and the FBI

‘Many of history’s worst authoritarians started out as losers.’

Elizabeth Warren, Democratic Senator from Massachusetts, calling Republican presidential front runner Donald Trump a “loser” and a “serious threat” as she joined a growing effort to block him from reaching the White House