Friday August 18, Our World in Pictures
INDIA — Kite-Flying Endangers Birds: Locals fly kites on rooftops during Independence Day celebrations in the old quarters of New Delhi on Thursday. The annual tradition of flying kites over the capital takes a painful toll on birds that fall victim to their razor-sharp strings. It happens mostly to pigeons, but also to crows, eagles and parrots.
MARYLAND — Monuments Removed: Workers use a crane to lift the monument dedicated to U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger Brooke Taney after it was removed from outside the Maryland State House in Annapolis early Friday. Workers hauled several monuments away, days after a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia turned deadly.
WASHINGTON — Citizen Counts on Trump: Robert LaCount, a recovering addict who voted for Donald Trump, sits for a photo in the old church he is fixing up as a community center in Hoquiam on June 12. He considers his old building an analogy for his county — good bones, a good soul, a working organ that plays beautiful music. It just needs a lot of help. “It’s been sitting empty and it’s tired,” he says. “It needs to get back to life.” He’s pinned his hopes on Trump. “We’re banking on him.”