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“From a crab apparently brandishing a blade to a man driving through a locked grocery store because he needed a bathroom, the US saw its share of bizarre incidents in the second half of September.”

“From an obscure White House aide suddenly becoming a national obsession to a mysterious kidney disease appearing among Texas farm workers, the first half of September has produced a peculiar collection of American stories.”

““It’s the feeling you get from watching a show in a certain period of time and trying to encompass a lot of other different things into that story.””

““It’s the feeling you get from watching a show in a certain period of time and trying to encompass a lot of other different things into that story.””

“UNRWA was established in 1949 to cater to tens of thousands of Palestinians displaced from their homes by Jewish militias from areas that currently form part of Israel.”

“The US-created Board’s decision is “a complete alignment with the Zionist [Israeli] position”, aimed at ending UNRWA’s operations, preventing it from delivering aid to Palestinians and eliminating the right of return, Hamas spokesperson Hazem Qassem said on…”

“That didn’t stop dozens of Havila Polaris passengers from volunteering to get ladled by Njord as our cruise ship sailed up the coast of Norway in March.”

“That included one on an extract from a 1934 Daily Mail article which was a pro-Nazi article reporting on the Night of the Long Knives, asking students to explain the problems the article raises for a historian.”

“And then Maggie O’Farrell’s Land, which promised something wild and strange but then gave us the familiar consolations of a family saga.”

“LA’s housing shortage is leading many renters to make an unexpected solution: Moving in with a roommate from a completely different generation.”

“Surrounded by scary stories about how artificial intelligence is going to kill us all—or at least steal our jobs—it’s tempting to bury one’s head in the sand, especially if you’re not an especially technologically minded person.”

“Humanitarienne: A Doctor’s Stories from the Conflict Zone Dr.”

“Except that, recently, the joke took a strange turn towards reality.”

“Hailing from Alaska and arriving in New York on the heels of his fiancée leaving him, Wyatt has a “built-in dynamic of loss in his life” that he’s “trying to come back from” in the latest NCIS spin-off, Harper told DECIDER during a visit to our studio this…”

“So that definitely took some getting used to.”

“…sing walkability of America's OG car-oriented suburb. - The strange socialist-libertarian fusion that is Vancouver, Canada's First Nation housing developments. - Texas landowners in the way of President Donald Trump's border wall fight the federal…”

“Newell graduated from Stanford in 2016 with a degree in Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies and Comparative Literature, according to the university.”

“Blame Ukraine for the price spikes and lift the US sanctions on Russian oil and oil product exports – including sanctions on buyers of Russian energy that Trump himself signed only about three weeks ago – and it will deflect from the fact that the price rises…”

“…uding shows on Netflix and Channel 5 They also featured the usual contributors, including a statistician whose services Cheshire Police declined to use, a nurse made redundant from the unit eight years before Letby was operating and a disgraced coroner's…”

“Dame Nellie Melba was the Kylie Minogue of her time, an opera singer from Richmond, Melbourne, who became a global superstar in the early 20th century.”

“Teens flood the study rooms, sipping from free sparkling water supplied by the library cafe.”

“Police detained the founder of the CJP Abhijeet Dipke, as well as his associates Saurav Das and Ashutosh Ranka, in an aeroplane upon arrival at New Delhi from Mumbai.”

“Curiosity — not dictated or tainted by social media algorithms but instead born from instinct, word of mouth and happenstance — is what drove us.”

“But in the free-market USA, independent actors from the broadcasters to the television retailers to the FCC had to somehow agree on technical standards, all the while hoping that the results were sufficient to turn a profit once offered to consumers.”

“But before we put distance between these stories and our own, Logan reminds us that the “same vast expansions and rapid progress that thrilled them also terrified them – just as our technologies do now.””

““I realised it’s because it has sounds from the real world in it, sounds that have their own stories.”

“Lowry, whose portrait of Penelope Seidler won the 2014 Archibald Prize, describes Nolan as “a much stranger artist than his familiarity allows us to see.”

“I see the story about Trump directing the government to use Federal money to buy nakedly political ads, lightly disguised as Public Service Announcements.”

““Ghost Adventures” star Zak Bagans paid $4.55 million for the legendary Las Vegas Underground House, a bizarre Cold War-era bunker mansion buried 26 feet below an otherwise ordinary-looking property — just minutes from the Strip, according to Neon and KTNV.”

“Judging from his social media posts, Trump is panicking.”

“Strange so they’d forget Spidey’s secret identity (see: Spider-Man: No Way Home) — which admittedly was a good way to overcome the overarching problem of several Spider-Man movies, namely, that too many people know his secret identity.”

““I’m now hearing so many stories from people about how when they were newbies, he was very much there to support them,” she said.”

“The steward, who was based out of Heathrow Airport, was also alleged to have told her 'sexual stories' about two other women.”

“…r who lives in and therefore understands the community, and uses his knowledge of local legends and connections with his fellow Inuits to address the mysteries of this strange, upsetting case — and he hopes his investigation leads to a sitdown with the…”

“Then last week deja vu – as Jim Chalmers, seeking to get ahead of Tuesday’s interest rate rise, leaned away from suggestions government spending was driving up inflation.”

“Agatha Christie’s 1937 whodunnit made us imagine Egypt aboard a chintzy cruise with cream teas.”

“(to be published Nov. 3 by New Harbinger Publications), psychotherapist Nancy Colier writes about how the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves can hold us back from living a more truthful and connected life.”

“Plus, Jonathan Allen digs into a striking admission from President Donald Trump. — Adam Wollner How undecided voters are weighing their 2026 election options By Bridget Bowman, Sarah Sternhagen and Hallie Jackson James Morton isn’t sure which party he’s going…”

“Their intersecting lives are one of the strange but true stories in my new book, "School of Hard Knucks: My Three Sons and Baseball’s Wildest Pitch."”

“He draws a line from the activism done in the ’60s and ’70s “lobbying successive governments to try and make sure that Australia told its own stories” to the industry we have today – one that helped pave the way for his own career.”

“But I’m far from the only one who’s had to ask it.”

“Democrats cheered, hoping to force the Green New Deal and electric vehicles on us.”

“I love you too. [CHEERING] All right, let us talk a little bit so you can hear what Sylvester has to say.”

“An agreed statement of facts state that Farag sucked one woman’s nipple, photographed another woman naked and used a combination of ruses such as skin checks and massages to commit his crimes.”

“You start the book with Strange Fruit.”

“'He swung from the treetops' Before the worry, Richard was the child who could make Ann Marie laugh.”

“Today's top stories The Trump administration is rolling back federal fuel-economy standards for new vehicles.”

“Fewer envelopes of cash do not necessarily tell us whether government is free from favoritism, conflicts of interest, or rent-seeking, and a politician's sex tells us very little about how that individual would govern.”

“Today's top stories British authorities have arrested five men near RAF Fairford, a U.K. air base used by U.S. forces in the war against Iran.”

“When she looks up her name on the internet, she still finds pages of results with media stories and missing person reports from more than a decade ago, some with a photo attached.”

“… in recent weeks, with both the announcement of Lena Dunham using a surrogate to start a family and the ongoing legal battle surrounding McKenna West, a gestational surrogate who fled to Texas to avoid having an abortion that was requested by the child’s…”

“…who now owns the land up for sale, said: ‘There have been quite a few sightings from Abriachan and from my stretch of Loch Ness.’ A trained biologist who later worked in medical research, he grew up hearing family stories of encounters with the mythical…”

“That led the social media platform to attach a “community note” from other users that says, “The audio of pilots meowing and barking at DCA was a longstanding aviation joke/meme...unrelated to furries or any subculture.””

“Some of the most effective modern developments from the past couple of decades are things like coronary stents, which started being widely used in America in the mid-90s: unsexy but extremely consequential, with millions of lives saved and extended.”

““It’s very strange when you’re in the middle of the journey,” said the one-time star of Australian soap Home and Away.”

““And it’s a strange backlash because on the one hand you get people on the left who think this intensive parenting is turning women into slaves, and then people on the right, who have influence from evangelical Christianity, who think this parenting is…”

“As a very strange public debate has ensued, it’s become clear that Trump, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and other people connected with the administration view AI as an essentially masculine tool: “dominant,” a word they keep using over and over, powerful,…”

“As he peered out from the bench, he witnessed the moments when several of the victims, the oldest and least mobile, were murdered with headshots.”

“…or many years, Effective Altruism — or EA, as it’s known1 — was a cross between a Berkeley technohippie cult and a fun intellectual sideshow that offered nerds a pleasant distraction from whatever people in mainstream politics were yelling at each other…”

“This is the first in a series of stories drawn from our reporting.”

“Halloween tradition returns According to the Wesley Chapel Record, a neighbour named Jeff Daniels recalled that VanDercar “would invite us neighbor kids over at Halloween to tell us stories.””

“While You Were Sleeping: 5 stories you might have missed, Sept 22, 2026 US stresses backing for Japan, Korea and Taiwan ahead of Trump-Xi summit The United States on Sept 21 reiterated its commitment to the defence of key Asian allies Japan and South Korea,…”

“He was preparing to approach clubs about his next tour but now worries that bookers who search his name will encounter stories claiming he “walked a crowd” — jargon for driving an audience from the room.”

“On Sunday, this masthead used Instinct to find and buy a t-shirt from Everwear Denim, a small store in Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula, when a different store was out of stock of a similar model tee.”

““It felt familiar, and it felt like coming home,” she said of returning to the franchise and reuniting with co-stars like Sarah Strange and Kevin O’Grady.”

“No one was using the computer when I came across it.”

“And yet there is something strange about the word economists keep using to describe the American consumer.”

“Hudson Williams told fans he’s still trying to make sense of the whirlwind ride “Heated Rivalry” has taken him on over the past year and the strange problem of being at the centre of a global phenomenon.”