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'Wait Wait' for November 2, 2024: With Not My Job guest Brian Jordan Alvarez
This week, Wait Wait is live in Chicago with special guest Brian Jordan Alvarezy and panelists Brian Babylon, Emmy Blotnick, and Luke Burbank
'I boo': A ghost town opens up for Halloween weddings
Halloween is one of the busiest wedding days of the year for the San Bernardino county clerk. For the first time, they're performing weddings for couples at Calico Ghost Town.
‘Witches marks’ and curses found carved into the walls of historic England manor
About 20 carvings in “a wide range of designs” including some meant to trap demons or to seek help from the Virgin Mary have been found at Gainsborough Old Hall in Lincolnshire, England.
Handsy fans disrupted a World Series game. Here are 5 notable MLB interference cases
Two Yankees fans were ejected from Game 4 of the World Series for trying to pry a ball out of a Dodgers player’s glove. It's a particularly brazen instance of fan interference, but far from the first.
China launches new crew to its space station as it seeks to expand exploration
China declared a “complete success” after it launched a new three-person crew to its space station early Wednesday as the country seeks to expand its exploration of outer space.
Poop on Pelosi's desk, a neo-Nazi tiki torch: Mysterious statues are popping up in D.C.
Two politically pointed statues have mysteriously appeared in the nation’s capital in the leadup to the election: a pile of poop on the former House speaker's desk and a hand holding a tiki torch.
Harris called Trump a 'fascist.' Experts debate what fascism is — and isn't
Vice President Harris and Trump's former chief of staff say Trump fits the definition of "fascist." Scholars who agree say the term is useful as a distress signal for the threat to democracy.
How France uncovered the mystery of the forbidden photos of Nazi-occupied Paris
The search for the unknown photographer began in the summer of 2020, with the discovery of an old photo album at a flea market in southern France.
Man arrested in U.K. cheese heist where imposter stole $389,000 worth of cheddar
The man was detained on suspicion of fraud by false representation and handling stolen goods in the theft of roughly 48,500 pounds of the high-value cheddar.