Must Reads : The Two-Way Some stories are just too weird, too funny or too sad to ignore. They may not be "serious news," but are so fascinating you must read them. NPR correspondents are on the watch for such tales. We pass along the best, from NPR and other news outlets.
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Saturday

A New Hampshire primary event is "immediately recognizable," David M. Shribman writes in the Boston Globe. There are baseball-capped old people and banner-waving young people — and candidates putting in long hours of face time. Here, Bernie Sanders speaks to an overflow crowd through a megaphone after a campaign event at the New England College on May 27, 2015, in Concord, N.H. Win McNamee/Getty Images hide caption

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Friday

Thursday

A view from Earth of a slender crescent moon in close proximity to the two brightest planets in the sky, Venus and Jupiter. Justin Lane/epa/Corbis hide caption

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Track Jupiter's Path Like An Ancient Babylonian

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The dark red color and looming posture of this Octopus tetricus likely signals menace to another octopus nearby, say scientists who studied 186 octopus interactions in 52 hours of underwater video. David Scheel/Current Biology hide caption

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Shifting Colors Of An Octopus May Hint At A Rich, Nasty Social Life

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Police operate a checkpoint as part of a containment strategy around the Malheur Wildlife Refuge near Burns, Ore., on Wednesday. Although leaders of the group that occupied the federal site were arrested, armed militants remain at the refuge. Rob Kerr/AFP/Getty Images hide caption

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Wednesday

An image from the Corruption Perceptions Index shows the U.S. with a score of 76, on a scale of 0-100. The top spot (judged the least corrupt) was taken by Denmark, with a score of 91. Screengrab by NPR hide caption

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Tuesday

Cleveland police Officer Michael Brilo and other officers have been fired over the fatal shooting of the occupants of a car in 2012, seen here in a photo taken by the Bureau of Criminal Investigation. John Kuntz/AP hide caption

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Monday

New England Patriots' defensive end Chandler Jones holds a Microsoft Surface tablet on the sideline in the third quarter of the AFC Championship game against the Denver Broncos. In the second quarter, the Patriots' tablets briefly stopped working. Christian Petersen/Getty Images hide caption

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