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When Missouri Voters Elected a Ghost: The Strangest Senate Victory in American Politics

In 2000, Missouri pulled off one of the most bizarre political upsets in U.S. history when voters elected a man who had been dead for three weeks. The result? A widow ended up in the Senate, and nobody saw it coming.

Mar 13, 2026

That Time the U.S. Accidentally Declared War on Three Countries It Didn't Mean To

In the frantic days after Pearl Harbor, the United States Congress declared war on Germany and Japan — and then, almost as an afterthought, on three small European nations that barely registered on America's radar. It was a bureaucratic blunder dressed up as foreign policy, and the fallout was quietly, absurdly chaotic.

Mar 13, 2026