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This week, Wait Wait is live in Milwaukee with host Peter Sagal, special guest Jason Narducy and panelists Alonzo Bodden, Adam Burke, and Negin Farsad

Huge crowds of train fans turn out as the 1940s era Big Boy steam locomotive is making a rare trip cross country.

Populist British MP Nigel Farage resigned from Parliament over questions about his finances, and is running for re-election in his constituency. His biggest rival? Count Binface.

In some towns in India, a visitor to the post office who's squinting at fine print might be asked: Do you want an eye test?

The nation's oldest continuously operated weather observatory in Milton, Massachusetts, keeps track of a surprising climate indicator: the date the first blueberry ripens.

President Trump refused to sign a housing bill, now law, in protest over Congress not passing new restrictions on voting.

NPR's Scott Simon asks Republican strategist Liam Donovan about his party's approach to November's Senate races.

The sport of beep baseball uses sound to guide visually impaired players to hit the ball and run the bases.

NPR's Scott Simon and sportswriter Howard Bryant discuss the World Cup quarterfinals.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Swarthmore College political science professor Dominic Tierney about the U.S.-Iran war and other conflicts that have left the U.S. in drawn-out entanglements.