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For the first time in two years, the state of Illinois passed a budget, after lawmakers overrode the governor's veto. But it doesn't mean the state has solved its budget woes.

Customers who visited an ATM in Corpus Christi, Texas, kept receiving a curious note with their receipts: "Please help." Finally, someone contacted the police. "It was just crazy," an officer said.

The folk-blues singer describes her creative process as "receiving" a song. "It usually starts with one voice," she says, "And as soon as I hear one, then 500 more come in and surround it."

Between a penumbral eclipse, a full moon and even Earth's closest comet encounter in over 30 years, there's been no lack of lovely sights at night this week. In case you missed them, here's a look.

NFL ratings are down and commentator Frank Deford says you can't blame it on all the attention the election is getting.

The bandleader for The Late Show With Stephen Colbert has released a new album of "funkified" holiday classics. "I love remixing things and making them fit in a different context," he says.

The Smithsonian show isn't about the words of the Quran so much as the people who laboriously copied it, letter by letter. When they made a mistake, they fixed it with flourish — and sometimes gold.

Playwright Greg Vovos knows the title, “How to Be a Respectable Junkie,” leaves some people wondering what kind of play he created. He is hoping that intrigue brings people to Dobama Theatre for the one-man show, which offers a window into what life is like for a man addicted to heroin. The main character, Brian, is considering suicide and decides to make a how-to video before taking his own life. The instructional video is intended to show drug users how to improve their behavior as addicts.

On Tuesday's program, we offered some tried but apparently no longer true advice for listeners who drive. We explain why "9 and 3" is the new "10 and 2."

Italy is sending a high-tech espresso machine to the International Space Station. And NASA is worried it might be too popular.