We're character-splitting headlines containing ­ soft hyphens. Those are usually invisible and act as a hyphenation hint for the browser.

This is how Califor­nia Dreaming is rendered, note the extra glyph (U+F8FF):

Different font, same issue (here ­ is rendered as a different glyph):

Is there a way to ignore the ­s when processing the DOM?

Edit: This is Chrome/macOS. Seems fine on Firefox.