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A deadly bacterium, xylella fastidiosa, has killed millions of olive trees in southern Italy. One of the hardest-hit areas is Lecce province in the Puglia region (pictured here). Xylella, which has no cure, "is almost like the coronavirus of olive trees," says Maria Saponari, a plant virologist at the Institute for Sustainable Plant Protection in Italy. Courtesy of Maria Saponari hide caption
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Victoria Iler, a junior at South Central High School, learns to drive an old 1940 Farmall tractor ahead of Drive Your Tractor To School Day. Ryan Delaney/St. Louis Public Radio hide caption
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Market shelves have been emptying of toilet paper as consumers seek to stock up for social distancing. But police in Newport, Ore., reminded residents that running out of toilet paper is not, in fact, an emergency worthy of dialing 911. Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Televangelist Jim Bakker, shown here in 2018, faces a legal challenge from the state of Missouri for selling a false remedy against the coronavirus. The COVID-19 disease currently has no cure. Chuck Burton/AP hide caption
Speaker of the U.K. House of Commons Lindsay Hoyle emerges from a chamber concealing a 360-year-old passageway that was rediscovered during renovation work in the Houses of Parliament in London. Daniel Leal-Olivas/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
The Oceanfront area of Virginia Beach long had no-cursing signs on its boardwalk — you can even buy replica versions at tchotchke gift shops. Roger Gregory/Flickr hide caption
Toronto videojournalist Andrew Collins noticed that the new plates are "totally unreadable from a distance at night." He tweeted this still from a dashcam video. Andrew Collins hide caption
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A baby weedy seadragon swims at the Birch Aquarium in La Jolla, Calif. Two of the rare fish hatched there recently, making the aquarium one of the few in the world to successfully breed them. Birch Aquarium at Scripps Institution of Oceanography via AP hide caption
Mike Pompeo is accusing veteran NPR journalist Mary Louise Kelly of lying to him. NPR's senior leadership says it stands by Kelly's reporting on the secretary of state. Joe Raedle/Getty Images hide caption
The Transportation Security Administration said the 4,432 guns seized at checkpoints in 2019 were the most in the agency's 18-year history. TSA hide caption
Carnival Glory (right) sheered off a chunk of its deck when it collided with Carnival Legend while trying to maneuver into port Friday morning in Cozumel, Mexico. Matthew Bruin via Reuters hide caption
Two editions of Maurizio Cattelan's Comedian, a banana duct-taped to a wall, have reportedly sold for more than $100,000. Cindy Ord/Getty Images hide caption
A Norwegian spruce stands at the center of London's Trafalgar Square on Wednesday. Many are calling this year's tree — a gift from Oslo — meager and sparse. Victoria Jones/AP hide caption
A murder of crows sit in a tree in Rochester, Minn. Each year, the birds arrive in mid-November and stay for the winter. Evan Frost /MPR News hide caption