Lost History: Fire has gutted the 200-year-old National Museum in northern Rio de Janeiro, which housed Egyptian artifacts, Greco-Roman art, and some of the first fossils found in Brazil. The museum was closed when the fire started at about 7:30 last night.

The museum was the oldest scientific institution in the country. It was located in a classic colonial style building wasonce the residence for the Portuguese royal family.

Firefighters and museum workers were able to save some of the objects, but the building was fully involved in flames. The National housed hundreds of thousands of artifacts, many of them related to the history of Brazil and other countries, and many of its collections came from members of Brazil’s royal family.

The artifacts included fossils, Brazil’s largest meteorite, dinosaur bones and a 12,000-year-old skeleton of a woman known as “Luzia”, the oldest ever discovered in the Americas.

Brazil’s President Michel Temer said in a statement, “Two hundred years of work, investigation, and knowledge have been lost.”

Nation: Three women and one man are missing and presumed dead after a head-on boat collision on the Colorado River near the Colorado/Arizona border late Friday night. Ten people were on one boat, six on the other, and almost all of them ended up in the water. One boat sank. No one was wearing a life jacket and some of the survivors were picked up miles downstream.

The Long Goodbye: Arizona Sen. John McCain was buried yesterday in a private ceremony at the Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md. alongside his lifelong friend, Adm. Admiral Chuck Larson. The two met 60 years ago at the academy.

Mystery: A beautiful Australian Instagram model who worked on the yacht of a Greek billionaire died after being found unconscious and twisted in rope at the stern of the ship, authorities said.

Sinead McNamara, 20, was described as a free spirit who chronicled her travels on social media. In a post last month she wrote: “Living & working on a boat seeing all that the world has to offer. Yep I think I have it pretty good.”

The yacht has been ordered to remain in port on the island of Kefalonia pending an investigation.

By the Numbers: As President Trump’s approval rating hits an all-time low, The Onion reports the following: “Offering an overview of Americans’ opinions of the commander in chief’s job performance, a new poll released Friday indicated that President Trump’s disapproval rating had reached an all-time none of this matters. The report, released by who really cares which of the utterly useless polling firms and corroborated by several leading increasingly feckless news organizations, confirmed that well over half of those surveyed for really no goddamn reason.”

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