This week, Wait Wait is live in Chicago with guest host Negin Farsad, special guest Arden Cho and panelists Tom Papa, Paula Poundstone, and Beth Stelling
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Sibling rivalry might not unique to humans. New scientific research shows that baboon siblings in southern Africa also feel jealousy toward each other.
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Ilia Malinin of the U.S. was heavily favored for men's figure skating gold, but a series of falls and downgraded jumps landed him in eighth place.
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio delivered a speech at the Munich Security Conference in Germany amid growing tensions between the U.S. and its European allies.
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NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Emmy Martin from The Chronicle of Higher Education about what the Epstein files have revealed about his links to higher education.
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Chinese lawyers and writers are calling for the release of two journalists detained by authorities after they published an investigation into a senior Communist Party official.
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NPR's Scott Simon and sportswriter Michele Steele talk Winter Olympics and the NBA All-Star games.
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio seeks to reassure European allies and a partial government shutdown hits the Department of Homeland Security.
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Musician Robin Skinner, better known as Cavetown, tells us about his new song "Baby Spoon," an ode to the joys of a gentle cuddle and of finding self-love through a relationship.
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A new play, "An Ark", is one of the first to be created and produced for mixed reality. It recently opened in New York, but does the play herald the future of theater?
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NPR's Scott Simon asks Michigan Sen. Gary Peters, a democrat, for his views on the conduct of and funding for the Department of Homeland Security.