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NPR (Chloe Veltman) - Frederick Wiseman, who captured the weirdness and wonder of everyday life, dies at 96

The prolific, pioneering filmmaker made dozens of documentaries and chronicled the inner workings of institutions. His 1967 film, Titicut Follies, revealed appalling conditions at a prison facility.

NYTIMES (Reis Thebault and Jack Healy) - Progress in Guthrie Case Is Fitful as Search Enters Its Third Week

Late-night bursts of activity have yielded few visible results as investigators hunt for Nancy Guthrie, the mother of a “Today” show host. The sheriff said Monday that her children and their spouses are not suspects.

NPR (Brian Mann) - Two U.S. moms in their 40s rocketed to gold and bronze in Olympic bobsled showdown

American sliders Elana Meyers Taylor, 41, and Kaillie Humphreys, 40, secure gold and bronze medals. Meyers-Taylor built on her record as the Black athlete with the most Winter Olympics medals.

AXIOS (Maria Curi) - Meta largely fails to protect kids from AI chatbots, per its own tests

Meta's internal testing found its chatbots fail to protect minors from sexual exploitation nearly 70% of the time, documents presented in a New Mexico trial Monday show. Why it matters: Meta is under fire for its chatbots allegedly flirting and engaging in harmful conversations with minors, prompting investigations in court and on Capitol Hill. - New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez is suing Meta over design choices that allegedly fail to protect kids online from predators. Driving the news: Meta's chatbots violate the company's own content policies almost two thirds of the time, NYU Professor Damon McCoy said, pointing to internal red teaming results Axios viewed on Courtroom View Network. - "Given the severity of some of these…