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Weekend Edition works hard to bring you the stories that matter. But they have to sift out the ones that don't. Sometimes they're still worth a mention, like this week's Olympics-themed dead pitch.

Editor Franklin Foer and longtime literary editor Leon Wieseltier are both leaving. The magazine will drop from 20 issues a year from 10 and move its headquarters from Washington, D.C., to New York.

Chicago officials continue to deal with the fallout over the release of police body cam video showing a 2019 raid by city officers of a Black woman's house, which later proved to be the wrong address.

Spanish authorities took the politicians into custody after Catalonia, a formerly semiautonomous region, declared independence from Spain. Catalan's former president remains in exile in Belgium.

The alligator is made of bronze. The sculpture, by Swedish Artist Alexander Klingspor, is an homage to the legend that alligators roam the city's sewers.

The Chicago Council Survey found that three-quarters of Americans identify North Korea's nuclear program as a "critical threat" to America, up from 55 percent just two years ago.

Mayor Bill de Blasio wants the topless women — known as "desnudas" — off of Times Square. But this is a debate that dates back to the '70s and was largely settled by a court decision in 1992.

There are just three candidates left in the race for WHO director-general. In a press briefing, they talked about their credentials.

President-elect Donald Trump has tapped Sen. Jeff Sessions to be attorney general — and Sessions' prior comments have many people in the multibillion-dollar marijuana industry worried.

In a tweet, the French president called the 2,500 active fires in the Amazon an "international crisis" and urged fellow G-7 members to "discuss this emergency first order" at their upcoming summit.