Aline Saavedra, a Brazilian biologist, said the talipot palms flowering for their first and final time in a Rio de Janeiro park invite admirers of their millions of creamy white blossoms on "a reflection on temporality" since the trees' life span is a human-like 80 years.

Willie Colins, who said he'd been crying all week, may never reopen his Stockton, Calif., venue rental after a child's 2nd birthday party ended with a shooting that left four people dead, lamenting, "There's no business there anymore, it's a memorial."

Oleg Cernei called a Moldovan police bomb squad to the town of Pepeni, where he's mayor, after someone on a tractor towed a downed apparently Russian drone into town to show it off, believing it was a toy.

Diego Rosales, 15, of Waukegan, Ill., still avoids taking the bus

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