Strange News: The Mystery Drones, AI Granny Versus Scammers, Santa as a "Foreign Agent," YMCA, Grocery Store Monopolies, DRC Mystery Disease, Elite Russian Goats and More.

Strange News: The Mystery Drones, AI Granny Versus Scammers, Santa as a "Foreign Agent," YMCA, Grocery Store Monopolies, DRC Mystery Disease, Elite Russian Goats and More.

An AI-generated Granny baffles and bedevils phone scammers across the UK. The US collectively freaks out as unidentified swarms of drones appear over multiple cities. Some Russian politicians want to declare Santa a foreign agent. The largest supermarket merger in history goes sour in court, with Albertsons calling off the merger and suing Kroger. Russia sends an elite force to North Korea -- not 100 soldiers, but 100 top-tier goats. All this and more in this week's strange news segment.

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