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JD Vance and Tim Walz squared off last night in the Vice Presidential debate. There was less drama overall as the two discussed issues like abortion and immigration and highlighted the differences between their bosses.

If you are watching the devastation in the southeast part of the U.S. from Hurricane Helene and want to do something, you can. 1400 American Red Cross Disaster Relief volunteers are in the region but more are needed and the Red Cross is holding volunteer training this weekend.

American Pickers star Frank Fritz has died two years after he suffered a stroke. Fritz’s former co-host and friend Mike Wolfe confirmed the news on Instagram yesterday.

Next weekend, if you look East before sunrise, you may catch a glimpse of something that hasn’t been seen since the Stone Age. Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan–Atlas) was discovered by astronomers early last year and is thought to orbit the sun about every 80,000 years.

For over 50 years, a junk deal in Pompeii has been staring at a painting called “The Portrait of Dora Maar,” admiring it but never thinking that the signature on the painting was really.  Finally, curiosity got the best of him, and he had it appraised. It is an original Pablo Picasso, and it’s worth about $12m.