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Firefighters in Cape Town have finally brought a wildfire under control after it swept across the slopes of the city’s famed Table Mountain and forced the evacuation of some neighborhoods. The blaze burned the historic library and other buildings on the campus of the University of Cape Town. More than 250 firefighters were deployed to the slopes of the mountain to battle the fire which started early Sunday and was brought under control more than 24 hours later. Four firefighters were injured. One man has been arrested on suspicion of arson for setting additional fires although a city official said it's not clear if he was responsible for starting the main blaze. 

It's shaping up as perhaps the most polarizing idea in European soccer for more than a generation. The Super League project announced in the early hours Monday by 12 clubs would make winners and losers worldwide if it overcomes widespread resistance to kick off as soon as August. Club owners would expect to become richer and players to be better paid if the 20-team competition delivers the commercial revenue. Fans from outside Europe are being prioritized over supporters in their own local communities. UEFA and its current Champions League broadcast partners stand to lose the most.

A lawyer says Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who is in the third week of a hunger strike while behind bars, was moved to a hospital in another prison after his doctor said he could be near death. Lawyer Alexei Liptser said Navalny was transferred Sunday from a penal colony east of Moscow to a hospital for convicts in a prison in Vladimir, a city 180 kilometers (110 miles) east of the capital. Liptser visited Navalny on Monday afternoon and said “in general his look indicates he is really unwell.” Russia’s state penitentiary service only reported the decision to transfer Navalny in a statement in the morning.

The Biden administration is privately weighing how to handle the upcoming verdict in the trial of former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin, including considering whether President Joe Biden should address the nation. Aides and officials also tell The Associated Press that the Justice Department is dispatching specially trained community facilitators. Closing arguments began Monday in Chauvin’s trial with a prosecutor telling jurors that the officer “had to know” he was squeezing the life out of George Floyd as he cried over and over that he couldn’t breathe and finally fell silent.

Tom Thibodeau says the same things that worked when he was a New York Knicks assistant coach in the 1990s still go into winning now. For the first time in years, that's just what the Knicks are doing. Led by All-Star Julius Randle, they have won six consecutive games. That's their longest winning streak in seven years. At 31-27, the Knicks are in good shape for their first playoff appearance since 2013. That wasn't expected this season, but the Knicks have quickly taken to Thibodeau's defense-first style.

The U.S. Coast Guard says the search for crew members who disappeared when a lift boat capsized off Louisiana will be suspended at sunset Monday.  The Coast Guard does not expect to find more survivors from the vessel. The grim news comes after days of searching for the missing workers from the oil industry lift boat Seacor Power, which capsized Tuesday during a fierce storm in the Gulf of Mexico south of Port Fourchon. Six of the 19 workers on the boat were rescued within hours of the wreck; five more bodies were found in the water. Eight remain missing.

New York Yankees players and staff are restless and so are fans. A 5-10 start, the franchise's worst in 24 years, has shaken a team that expects to contend for a World Series title. New York’s .210 batting average is next-to-last in the American League. The Yankees’ 55 runs entering Monday tied Detroit for the AL low. Ace Gerrit Cole is 2-1 with a 1.82 ERA and the rest of New York’s starters are 1-6 with a 6.39 ERA. Twelve errors have led to 10 unearned runs.

Joey Gallo is getting on base a lot for the Texas Rangers without going out of the park. Gallo has only one homer but has reached base in each of his first 15 games this season. His other 10 hits are all singles, and he has an MLB-high 15 walks. He's seventh in the majors with his .453 on-base percentage. It is a big shift for the 27-year-old slugger. He reached 100 career homers faster than any other American League player, and when he did it in 2019 he had only 93 singles. 

Tottenham has fired Jose Mourinho after only 17 months in charge and just as he was preparing to coach the club in the League Cup final. Mourinho was hired in November 2019 to replace Mauricio Pochettino. The Argentine had unexpectedly led the London club to the Champions League final before the team collapsed the following season. Mourinho failed to get Tottenham back into the Champions League and has overseen another collapse this season. The team was in first place in December but a run of poor results has seen it fall to seventh place.

Tom Brady expects to be ready for June minicamp with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers as he recovers from offseason knee surgery. Speaking at a fundraiser for Bucs coach Bruce Arians’ foundation, the 43-year-old quarterback joked he didn’t know “if I can go this week.” He then added he is aiming to be back on the field relatively soon for the Super Bowl champions. Bucs players, along with those from half the league’s teams, have said they will not attend voluntary offseason workouts, which could begin Monday. Minicamps are mandatory for players fit to participate.

Letting the world see your failures is usually something most people try to avoid. Not for theatrical poster designer Frank Verlizzo — he hopes you’ll put his on your wall. Verlizzo is selling prints of his rejected posters for such shows as “Cabaret,” “Equus” and “Matilda.” All proceeds go to the aid organization Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. The 16 posters included in the series — each goes for $399 with a frame — were either rejected, never pitched or part of a group of submissions Verlizzo made that left only one winner.

A former campaign chairman for House Republicans is resigning from office. Rep. Steve Stivers of Ohio says he'll leave Congress next month to run his home state’s chamber of commerce. Stivers has been serving in the House since 2011 and had been viewed as a potential candidate to run for the seat held by retiring Republican Sen. Rob Portman of Ohio. Instead, Stivers is leaving Congress effective May 16. Stivers said Monday he has focused his time in Washington on economic policies and that's why he's “looking forward to this new opportunity with the Ohio Chamber of Commerce.”

Ballot drop boxes were enormously popular during the 2020 election. But they're drawing the attention of Republican lawmakers in Florida, Georgia and other Republican-controlled states who say security concerns warrant new restrictions. Under a new Georgia law, Atlanta voters looking to use a ballot drop box in next year’s gubernatorial election will have to seek out one of just eight spread out across Fulton County’s nearly 529 square miles. That’s down from the 38 drop boxes available last fall. It’s the result of a broad new law pushed by Georgia Republicans in response to former President Donald Trump’s false claims of a stolen election. While drop boxes were targeted a few times by vandals, few other problems were reported with them across the country. 

The European Union is estimating that more than 150,000 Russian troops have already amassed for the biggest military buildup ever near Ukraine’s borders and that it will only take “a spark” to set off a confrontation. At the same time, EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said that the condition of imprisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny was “critical” and that the 27-nation group would hold the Kremlin accountable for his health and safety. Despite the worrisome developments, Borrell said that, “for the time being, there is no move in the field of more sanctions” to be slapped on Russia. 

BERLIN (AP) — Germany's health minister on Monday welcomed the announcement by two pharmaeutical companies that they will deliver more coronavirus vaccines during the second quarter than previously predicted. The Germany company BioNTech, which developed the first widely approved vaccine…

Trey Smith has no problem explaining his situation no matter how many times he has to detail his history of blood clots. The Tennessee guard wants to make sure no NFL coach or general manager has any unanswered questions about his availability to play before the upcoming draft. Smith says he'll explain it a million times if he has to because he knows it's something different. Smith wants to play in the NFL and played 42 games at Tennessee. He was two-time All-Southeastern Conference despite blood clots that first showed up in February 2018.