UPI Pictures of the Year 2020 - NEWS & FEATURES

A graduate celebrates and throws her cap in the air on the steps to the Library known as "Low Beach" after Columbia University holds the Commencement ceremony for its 266th academic year in New York City on Wednesday, May 20, 2020. Due to the Coronavirus Pandemic this years conferring of degrees graduation ceremony was held as a virtual event broadcast. The U.S. Coronavirus death toll now tops 90,000 and the number of reported cases reaches 1.5 million. Photo by John Angelillo/UPI