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Robert E. Lee is gone with the wind, so is Richmond’s historic Monument Avenue and Howard University’s classics department.

Today’s top pics: Coronavirus outbreak and more A NYPD officer walks up beside rental trucks and a hearse that have their back-ends covered by a tarp outside Andrew T. Cleckley Funeral Home, Thursday, April 30, 2020, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. Police were called to the funeral home Wednesday after it resorted to storing dozens of bodies on ice in rented trucks. The scene was the latest example of funeral homes struggling with thousands of deaths caused by the coronavi...

Today’s top pics: Coronavirus outbreak and more Crew on the the Ruby Princess wave with a cartoon sized hand and head as the ship departs from Port Kembla in Wollongong, Australia, Thursday, April 23, 2020. The ocean liner became notorious as Australias largest single source of coronavirus infections and is the center of a criminal investigation over the sickness spread set off a month after it was ordered by police to leave. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft) Rick Rycroft A c...

Six firefighters were hurt in the fire South African officials described as one of the area’s worst in years.

Cape Town wildfire: About 90% of blaze on Table Mountain now contained Gerald Imray CAPE TOWN, South Africa — Fire crews worked for a third day to extinguish a wildfire on the slopes of Cape Towns Table Mountain on Tuesday as the city came to terms with the damage caused by what officials have described as one of the areas worst blazes in years. About 90% of the fire had been contained, the Table Mountain National Park authority said, but only after firefighters worked throug...

© AP Photo/Jerome Delay Residential neighborhoods are lit by raging fires in Cape Town, South Africa, Monday, April 19, 2021. Firefighters in Cape Town finally brought a wildfire under control Monday after it swept across the slopes of the citys famed Table Mountain, burning the universitys historic library and forcing the evacuation of some neighborhoods. The smoldering fire is being watched for flareups amid high winds and hot, dry conditions. City authorities said the fire, which started e...

Another suspected poacher is still on the run. Credit: AP A Savanna elephant is photographed in Kruger National Park, South Africa, in this March 4, 2020 file photo. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, File) Author: 10 Tampa Bay Updated: 11:04 AM EDT April 19, 2021 A suspected poacher was killed by a herd of breeding elephants over the weekend in South Africa, according to multiple reports. It happened at Kruger National Park, one of the largest game reserves in the region. ...

The pandemic has killed more people than most, but not all, other viral epidemics in the 20th and 21st centuries

McManus: The pandemic wont end anywhere until its under control everywhere Doyle McManus © (Jerome Delay / Associated Press) Volunteers in a vaccine trial wait their turn to be checked at Sowetos Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital in Johannesburg, South Africa. (Jerome Delay / Associated Press) Despite recent setbacks in Michigan and elsewhere, the United States is gradually approaching the day when we may be able to declare the COVID-19 pandemic under control — withi...

7 shares A woman wearing a face mask attends Easter Sunday Mass led by Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem Pierbattista Pizzaballa at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in the Old City of Jerusalem, April 4, 2021. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty) VATICAN CITY (AP) — Christianity’s most joyous feast day was celebrated worldwide with the faithful spaced apart in pews and singing choruses of “Hallelujah” through face coverings on a second Easter Sunday marked by pandemic precautions. From vast Roman C...