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This week, Wait Wait is live in Chicago with host Peter Sagal, special guest Stephen Malmus and panelists Emmy Blotnick, Joyelle Nicole Johnson, and Gianmarco Soresi
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A marrying couple are more likely than ever to ask a friend to officiate their wedding. Here's how to handle this high-stakes assignment.
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Each week, a guest draws a card from NPR's Wild Card deck and answers a big question about their life. After 24 years in the WWE ring, John Cena retired from professional wrestling last year.
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When his father died, Stanford University historian Thomas Mullaney scrambled to preserve the things he'd left behind in the exact order that he'd found them: the papers, photos and other detritus accumulated over decades of living.
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Two couples spend an ill-advised evening together in the tense comedy The Invite. Olivia Wilde, Seth Rogen, Penélope Cruz and Edward Norton, star in the film, which plays it a little too safe.
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David Bianculli offers an appreciation, then we listen back to a '06 interview with Burrows, who died June 19. He directed over 1,000 sitcom episodes, co-created Cheers and chose the cast for Friends.
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The 16-day state fair on the National Mall kicked off with a Trump rally, and not all 50 states are taking part. Organizers say there's nothing partisan about celebrating America's 250th birthday.
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Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce are rumored to celebrate at Madison Square Garden on July 3, with speculation ranging from a wedding reception to surprise musical performances.
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There's a new way to age Bourbon in Kentucky. In barges on the Mississippi, which some say gives it a distinct flavor.
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In some ways, the fifth and final season of The Bear feels less daring — but after four seasons, the small wins mean more.
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International soccer fans are documenting everyday American culture with a sense of wonder and joy.
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Smith's new show is about her great-great-grandfather, a free Black man who reburied the Union dead at Gettysburg and prepared the ground for Lincoln's most famous speech.