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Izwelethu, also known as "Covid," is an illegal settlement outside Cape Town comprising more than 800 tin shacks and 3,000-plus residents. It was started in March, when South Africa's national lockdown began. Some roofs are secured with bricks. With the winds of summer now blowing, more bricks will likely be needed.

PHOTOS: Why South Africans Built An Illegal Settlement Called Covid

The pandemic pushed many South Africans out of work. Some grabbed land and put up shacks. There's a community called "Covid" — and even "Sanitizer." The Anti-Land Invasion Unit aims to tear them down.

3M agrees to pay $55 million to Wolverine Worldwide for PFAS settlement

Minnesota-based 3M will pay $55 million to Wolverine Worldwide to address PFAS contamination in Kent County.Wolverine Worldwide is based in Rockford. It…

Billy Porter attends the 2020 Vanity Fair Oscar Party. "Fabulous and serious, can go hand in hand. I am proof positive of that," he says.

Billy Porter makes peace with himself: 'I set myself free, honey. No more secrets'

Fourteen years after his initial diagnosis, the Pose actor revealed publicly that he is HIV-positive. Porter says being open about his health status felt like a rebirth. His new memoir is Unprotected.

Artist Jonas Never (@never1959) applies finishing touches to his mural of Sen. Bernie Sanders in Culver City, Calif., on Jan. 24. Standing out in a crowd of glamorously dressed guests, Sanders showed up for the presidential inauguration in a heavy winter jacket and patterned mittens — with an AFP photo of the veteran leftist spawning the first viral meme of the Biden era.

Memes about COVID-19 helped us cope with life in a pandemic, a new study finds

Memes could be a valuable way to help people deal with stressful situations.

EPA conducts soil tests around site of "green ooze" spill

The U.S. EPA has begun drilling into the soil surrounding a shuttered factory in Oakland County in an effort to figure out just how much toxic chemicals…

Chris Magnus testifies before the Senate Finance Committee on his nomination to be the next U.S. Customs and Border Protection commissioner, Tuesday, Oct. 19, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.

Customs and Border Protection nominee pledges to balance security and humanity

President Biden's pick to lead U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Tucson Police Chief Chris Magnus, told senators that he would seek to balance border security with humane treatment of migrants.

Whitmer says she has talked to Biden campaign about VP nomination

Governor Gretchen Whitmer says she has talked to members of former Vice President Joe Biden’s campaign team about being his running mate on the November…

Choreographer Polina Mitryashina, artist Victor Melamed, and jazz producer Evgenii Petrushanskiy, from left, in Tel Aviv on Nov. 2. All three are Russian artists who have recently fled Russia to live in Israel.

Russia's biggest talents flee to Israel, seeking freedom from Putin's repression

Russia is losing creative talent. Some of its biggest artists have immigrated to Israel this year to rebuild their careers and safely voice their conscience about the war in Ukraine.

Annie Perasa and her husband, Danny, are StoryCorps legends, first recounting their love for one another in 2004.

'I'm Walking Out With You Alone': A StoryCorps Love Story

Brooklynites Danny, an OTB clerk, and Annie, a nurse, began chronicling their life together in the early days of StoryCorps — from their first date to Danny's final days with terminal cancer.

In November 2019, PJ Hahn, former director of Coastal Zone Management for Plaquemines Parish, stood in the spot where Cat Island once was. "To be standing there in three, four feet of water where the land used to be so beautiful. I remember pulling up to this island, the minute we got close the birds would fly off the island."

'Where The Land Used To Be,' Photos Show Louisiana Coast 10 Years After BP Oil Spill

Photographer Tyrone Turner documented the life and changes on Cat Island in the southeastern coastal area of the state before it disappeared.

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