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Trump's pardon of nearly all of the people convicted of crimes in relation to Jan. 6 was no surprise to those who followed his campaign promises. But for some historians, it sends a troubling signal.

The latest stack of books from our go-to librarian will transport you to Newfoundland, New Orleans, Sierra Leone, Malaysia, Massachusetts, and the British Isles.

Kenneth Kamler, Md is a surgeon who also climbs mountains. He was team doctor on three expeditions to the top of Mount Everest, including the disastrous 1996 trip during which 6 people died. Kamler is both storyteller and advisor in his book, Doctor on Everest: Emergency Medicine at the Top of the World - A Personal Account including the 1996 Disaster. (The Lyons Press) Blackened limbs due to severe frostbite were the least of his troubles. I-V fluids are frozen solid, and abrasions cannot heal at such high altitudes. Kamler's day job is Director of the Hand Treatment Center in Hyde Park, New York, where he is a microsurgeon. He's done research on telemedicine for NASA and Yale Medical School.

Hillary Clinton has the edge. She has to win just the states leaning in her direction to get enough electoral votes to be president. But Donald Trump has a path, albeit a narrow one.

Morning Edition presents its first original radio play, I'd Rather Eat Pants, written by Peter Ackerman and produced by L.A. Theatre Works. The five-act play, starring Edward Asner and Anne Meara, is a comic tale of an elderly couple's cross-country trek on a young slacker's motorcycle. They're in search of fame, fortune and a whole lot more. NPR's Bob Edwards and Susan Stamberg have cameo roles. Part four of Morning Edition's five-part original radio drama I'd Rather Eat Pants.

The woman first won $100,000. To celebrate, she bought more tickets and won a $300,000 prize. With some more winning ticket, she could buy Twitter.

Several dozen children in California and Colorado have suffered paralyzed limbs, which doctors speculate could be caused by the respiratory virus EV-68. But we're a long way from knowing for sure.

Tony Bennett once said k.d. lang is in a league of singers who are "blessed with a destiny." Twenty-five years later, that destiny is celebrated with a retrospective album called Recollection. But she didn't get that voice without discipline.

Banned from the likes of Twitter and Facebook, Trump says he may launch his own social media platform. But there are reasons to be skeptical that it could help him regain his once-ubiquitous presence.

Donald Trump's TV fixation led him to the White House. The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol will show that obsession also defined his actions on that day.