Ghana's masked presidential candidate adds sense of mystery to election (news.yahoo.com)
World's only spotless giraffe born at Tennessee zoo, public asked to help name her (wjla.com)
Vacuum containing hundreds of hornets stolen from Philadelphia beekeeper's truck (6abc.com)
Whoever stole the shop vac is in for a very big surprise.
Woman Found Secretly Living In Stranger's Home For A Year (www.theguardian.com)
Taliban Militants Fed Up With Office Culture, Ready to Quiet Quit (time.com)
AI image generator fabricates ‘archival’ Bigfoot photo (www.rumorguard.org)
Almost 1,000 birds die after crashing into Chicago building (www.chicagotribune.com)
Woman attacked by 'vicious' otter: 'I did not think I was going to make it out of that river' (edition.cnn.com)
A Monkey-Themed Banana Holder Is Tearing a Texas City Apart (www.thedailybeast.com)
The City Council meeting in Hutto, Texas, had been in session for just a few minutes on Aug. 31 when local resident Nicole Calderone stepped up to the podium, moments after another speaker angrily rebuked Mayor Mike Snyder....
When something goes bump in the night: A loud sound, the house started shaking and the roof is damaged with no explanation in a north Phoenix home. (www.12news.com)
The homeowner said the damage happened just after it felt like an earthquake shook the house.
'This is complete nonsense': Scientists rail against 'alien' bodies shown before Mexican congress (www.livescience.com)
Toxic 'foaming' watermelons are showing up in Maine (wgme.com)
Do you believe in angels? About 7 in 10 U.S. adults do, a new AP-NORC poll shows (apnews.com)
Tennis ball-sized hail pounds Italy injuring more than 100 people (www.cnn.com)
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‘Serial slingshot’ suspect who terrorized California neighborhood arrested (www.theguardian.com)
Why are magic ‘witch bottles' used for spells washing up on Texas beaches? (www.nbcdfw.com)
New Orleans braces for drinking water emergency from drought-stricken Mississippi River (www.nbcnews.com)
‘Oh my god’: live worm found in Australian woman’s brain in world-first discovery (www.theguardian.com)
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JWST spots a mysterious question mark in deep space (www.earth.com)
A car-sized object that washed ashore in western Australia is thought to be space junk (apnews.com)
Gotta love mysterious space junk! Australia’s coasts seem to be getting all the fun oddities lately.
$500,000 chunk of 'floating gold' found in dead whale (www.livescience.com)
The huge chunk of ambergris was found lodged inside the sperm whale — and scientists believe it ruptured its intestine, causing its death and subsequent beaching in La Palma.