'Wait Wait' for November 9, 2024: With Not My Job guest Tara Dower
This week, Wait Wait is live in Chicago with special guest Tara Dower and panelists Peter Grosz, Negin Farsad, and Faith Salie
Human Interest
New DNA evidence upends what we thought we knew about Pompeii victims
The findings, which used DNA from the plaster casts of people who died in the Mt. Vesuvius eruption two millennia ago, challenge the traditional gender and familial assumptions about the Pompeiians.
Vice presidents often run for president. Making it there has been a leap
While the office of vice president is the second-highest position in the government, making it to the Oval Office has historically been a leap.
Infinite Monkey Theorem is impossible within our universe's lifetime, study shows
It turns out a monkey – given an infinite amount of time and a typewriter – wouldn't be able to write Shakespeare before the universe ends, according to a new study.
Trump is hoping to win non-consecutive terms. Only one president has done it
If reelected, Trump would only be the second president to serve non-consecutive terms after Grover Cleveland in the late 1800s. Here's a look at how that happened — and who else has tried.
Sunday Puzzle: Can you guess these words from these phonetic clues?
NPR's Ayesha Rascoe plays with puzzle with Weekend Edition Puzzlemaster Will Shortz and WBUR listener John Byrne of Watertown, Massachusetts.
'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.