WEIRD NEWS

U_S_ officials say the CIA believes it's unlikely that Russia or another foreign adversary is using microwaves or other forms of directed energy to attack hundreds of American diplomats and intelligence officers who attribute their brain injuries and other symptoms to what's come to be known as “Havana syndrome.”.

For anyone who's ever wanted to fill their home with the smell of chicken noodle soup without having to actually make it, Campbell's has you covered.

South Korean presidential candidate Lee Jae-myung isn’t bald.

A German shepherd named Tinsley successfully led New Hampshire state police to the site of its owner’s rollover crash.

Just after storms moved through Texarkana last week, the skies opened up again and rained fish for a few minutes.

Many people hoped 2021 would be the year things got back to normal in this world.

Hungry squirrels are forcing a downtown St. Paul park to scale back its Christmas lights display.

Spin bikes and fast food are two things you wouldn’t think go together.

A Roman Catholic diocese in Sicily has apologized to outraged parents after its bishop told a group of children that Santa Claus doesn’t exist.

A former deep-sea treasure hunter is preparing to mark his sixth year in jail for refusing to disclose the whereabouts of 500 missing gold coins.

If you're not necessarily in the holiday spirit, there may be a getaway for you.

The list of 2021's most mispronounced words is out, and they're a mouthful.

Scientists in Chile have found the fossils of a strange new dinosaur species.

German police are looking for witnesses after burglars broke through the wall of a toy store to steal dozens of Lego sets.

An Alabama woman who says she was falsely arrested for shoplifting at a Walmart and then threatened by the company after her case was dismissed has been awarded $2.1 million in damages.

Dozens of customers who stopped for a drink at Britain’s highest pub are getting a longer stay than they bargained for after the building was cut off by a blizzard.

Authorities are trying to figure out how hundreds of FedEx packages ended up dumped in the woods in Alabama.

Move over pecan pie, a new dessert wants a place at your Thanksgiving table.

There are plenty of taxi services to choose from these days, but a British man has cornered the market when it comes to "heavy" lifts.

An attraction opening Tuesday gives thrill-seekers a unique perspective on New York City from almost 1,300 feet up.

Two California couples gave birth to each others’ babies after a mix-up at a fertility clinic and spent months raising children that weren’t theirs before swapping the infants.

Instead of a message in a bottle, it was the decals on a trash can that tell the story of a 3,500-mile voyage, from South Carolina to Ireland.

Santa may have fewer eyes in homes this Christmas season after a judge — jokingly — banned the Elf on the Shelf.

A look at how DST came to be and the historical debates that came with it.

Officials say a young hitchhiker who died in a car crash in Alabama in 1961 and was buried in a grave marked “UNKNOWN” has finally been identified through DNA testing.

Merriam-Webster has added 455 new words to its venerable dictionary.

A large spider native to East Asia has spun its thick, golden web on power lines, porches and vegetable patches all over north Georgia this year.

A new study says endangered California condors can have “’virgin births.”.

An emergency call made by a 4-year-old New Zealand boy asking for police to come over and check out his toys prompted a real-life callout and confirmation from an officer that the toys were, indeed, pretty cool.

Israeli police say a man is dead after falling from a hot air balloon in mid-flight.

An animal recovery group says a large cat native to Africa that escaped from its suburban Detroit home was captured after spending several hours on the lam.

A trash bin installed next to a bus stop in Jerusalem thanks people for not littering.

A dog trapped for five days deep inside a narrow, rocky crevice at a state park north of New York City was rescued unharmed.

A large cat native to Africa is on the loose in a suburb north of Detroit after escaping from its owner.

Colorado wildlife officials say an elusive elk that has been wandering the hills with a car tire around its neck for at least two years has finally been freed of the obstruction.

It would be the token of all tokens: a $1 trillion coin, minted by the U.S. government, then cashed in to flood the treasury with cash and solve a political impasse over suspending the debt limit.

Hundreds of birds migrating through New York City this week have died after crashing into the city’s glass towers.

A sad and bizarre story is confirmed.

McDonald’s says it has pulled milkshakes from the menu in all 1,250 of its British restaurants because of supply problems stemming from a shortage of truck drivers.

A woman convicted of witchcraft in 1693 and sentenced to death at the height of the Salem Witch Trials may finally be exonerated in Massachusetts.

Authorities say a Wisconsin woman accidentally shot a friend while using the laser sight on a handgun to play with a cat.

A Florida homeowner gets quite the scare.

German police say three people have been slightly injured when they were targeted with darts likely shot from a blowgun in the western city of Cologne.

California Highway Patrol recently pulled over a motorist for visual obstruction on its car's hood.

A Portuguese teenager has found a message in a bottle that traveled at least 2,400 miles from a Vermont teenager.

A woman reportedly gives birth to 10 babies -- at the same time!

Police are blaming an amorous cicada for causing a car crash in Ohio.

A North Carolina woman's mistake led to a big pay off.

A young alligator traced to the Louisiana bayous traded swamp scum for a sandy Padre Island beach in South Texas.

Staff at a logistics company in Germany threw cocaine with a street value of up to $1.2 million in the trash, not realizing that the packages they’d found inside banana crates were drugs.

CAROLINE COUNTY, Va. One Virginia family made a strange discovery over the weekend after they thought they had picked up two bags of trash from the road. The Schantz family was on a drive Saturday afternoon, weaving through back country Central Virginia roads, when they came across some goats and pre-made storage sheds. Little did the family know, they were driving around for hours with nearly a million dollars in cold cash. "They found out that they'd been riding around all day with almost a million dollars in the truck," Caroline County Sheriff's Office Major Scott Moser said. "To have someone so honest and to give that million dollars back is exceptional on their part, Moser said.