Our quiz writer digs deep on politics and … bowler hats. Can you score 11?

The shutdown continues, but somehow the news cycle rolls on, kicking up moderately entertaining quiz questions like so much dust.

Here, you can find inspiration in a senior citizen who broke an Ironman record, and in the late Diane Keaton’s fashion choices. And yes, there is more Taylor Swift news. Sorry.

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Unions say White House plans mass layoff at Interior Department, despite court order

A status conference is set for Friday afternoon after union lawyers said the Trump administration is violating a court order that temporarily blocks mass firings during the government shutdown.

Experimental cellist Clarice Jensen finds inspiration in Bach, and a few electronics

The restless musician, sporting less electronic gear than usual, spotlights the acoustic warmth of her instrument in pieces stimulated by Bach's cello suites.

As hundreds of millions of birds head south, the invisible danger is glass

It's the peak of the fall migration season. This is when bird deaths from window collisions tend to spike, even though simple solutions can prevent this.

A once-in-a-‘Blue Moon’ Broadway breakup

Before there was Rodgers and Hammerstein, there was Rodgers and Hart. Richard Linklater's new film meets lyricist Lorenz Hart on the night he's watching his partnership with composer Richard Rodgers fade away.

Former Japanese PM Murayama, known for apology over wartime aggression, dies at 101

Tomiichi Murayama, Japan's prime minister from 1994, was best known for the "Murayama Statement," an apology delivered on the 50th anniversary of Japan's World War II surrender.

Zelenskyy is set to meet Trump at the White House. Here’s what to expect

When Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy meets with President Trump on Friday, the mood is expected to be very different from their first Oval Office encounter in February.

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