David Kestenbaum tells the story of the suspicious disappearance of multiple shoes and a woman determined to explain it. (8 minutes)

Editor David Kestenbaum speaks with Jeff Permar, who is trapped in a Groundhog Day situation — with an actual groundhog! (9 minutes)See more videos of the groundhog Chunk on Jeff’s YouTube channel.

Two college baseball teams with horrible losing streaks — a combined 141 games — are scheduled to play each other.

Zach and his father enter into an agreement that could change their entire relationship. (9 minutes)

Reporter Evan Ratliff creates an AI version of himself and then sets it loose on the world.

USAID was founded in 1961. Since then, it has spent hundreds of billions of dollars all over the world.

7-year-old Miles has lots of questions. More specifically, he has questions about the famous car chase from “The Blues Brothers” movie.

Ira revisits interviews with Chicago voters from the 1997 and 2007 rebroadcasts of this episode. In 1997, ten years after Harold Washington’s death, not much had changed in Chicago.

After October 7th, Israeli Minister of Security Itamar Ben-Gvir increased restrictions on Palestinian prisoners in Israeli security prisons. Prisoners started dying.

Parking in a big city can be a real pain. Producer Valerie Kipnis speaks with a man who has taken it upon himself to try to mitigate the weekly hassle.

It gets extremely personal for the judges. Also, the story of one person who got pushed through the new immigration court system this summer.

Producer Aviva DeKornfeld looks into why comedian Daniel Sloss’s comedy special has been responsible for so many couples breaking up. (17 minutes)

Zoe Chace gives an eyewitness account of what has been happening at 26 Federal Plaza, an immigration courthouse in New York City.

Chana gives a short update about Banias, a 9-year-old girl in Gaza she's been speaking with for months.

Some people are great in a crisis. Others, not so much.

When USAID suddenly stopped all foreign assistance without warning or a transition plan, it sent people all over the world scrambling. Especially those relying on daily medicine provided by USAID.

Short fiction from Bess Kalb about a groundhog named Susan, who has her own opinions about the holiday named after her species. (7 minutes)You can find more work from Bess at The Grudge Report on Substack.

We hear from Kwaneta Harris, a former nurse incarcerated in Texas, who is constantly asked for medical advice by her neighbors. (17 minutes)

Zach’s mother and sister weigh in on the agreement. (28 minutes)

Producer Aviva DeKornfeld talks to Ranjani Srinivasan, who tells the story of how her life was transformed over five days via a series of events that started out confusing and escalated to frightening. (25 minutes)

When Yousef Hammash left Gaza a year ago, his sisters decided to stay behind.