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FILE - Lady Gaga attends The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute benefit gala on May 6, 2019, in New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced Monday that the annual high-wattage celebration of both fashion and celebrity -- held virtually in 2020 because of the pandemic -- will return in person, first in September, then again on its usual date on the first Monday in May. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP, File)
Sidelined last year, the Met Gala is returning -- twice

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Editorial Roundup: Ohio

By The Associated Press 13 minutes ago
Cleveland Plain Dealer. April 11, 2021. Editorial: Shame on Ohio General Assembly members who prevaricate when asked to lead by example and...

A high school student has his body temperature checked as he enters a school at Glyfada suburb, west of Athens, Monday, April 12, 2021. Home tests have been distributed to teachers and students aged 16-18, as authorities reopened high schools for students in the final three grades on Monday. (AP Photo/Yorgos Karahalis)
Greece pins hopes on mandatory home testing, opens schools

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NCAA volleyball tournament will boost Omaha's economy

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OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The Omaha economy will get a significant boost from hosting the entire NCAA volleyball championship tournament over the next two weeks. ...

Hawaii extends eviction moratorium, details vaccine passport

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HONOLULU (AP) — The governor of Hawaii has issued another emergency proclamation in response to the coronavirus pandemic that extends the statewide eviction...

Navajo president vetoes reopening tribal roads to visitors

Apr. 10, 2021 03:12 PM EDT
WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. (AP) — Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez has vetoed a resolution to reopen tribal roads on the Navajo reservation to tourists and other...

Virus recovery funds to promote tourism on Alabama coast

Apr. 10, 2021 11:44 AM EDT
ORANGE BEACH, Ala. (AP) — Beach season is heating up, and Alabama’s coast is getting federal money to help recover from tourism losses caused by the...

The Cyclone rollercoaster begins taking passengers after the seasonal opening of the Coney Island amusement park area, Friday, April 9, 2021, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. Coney Island's illustrious amusement parks are reopening Friday after the coronavirus pandemic shuttered them all last year. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
Coney Island attractions reopen after losing year to virus

Apr. 09, 2021 09:53 AM EDT

Health workers prepare equipments for nasal swab tests for workers in a local entertainment venue area where a new cluster of COVID-19 infections were found in Bangkok, Thailand, Thursday, April 8, 2021. Thailand has confirmed its first local cases of the coronavirus variant first detected in the U.K., raising the likelihood that it is facing a new wave of the pandemic, a senior doctor said Wednesday. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)
Thailand faces growing outbreak ahead of New Year travel

By Busaba Sivasomboon Apr. 09, 2021 03:41 AM EDT

Signs advertise a business space for lease at a shopping plaza, Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2021, in Orlando, Fla. The distribution of COVID-19 vaccines is fueling optimism that Americans will increasingly return to the ways they used to shop, travel and work before the pandemic. That would be a welcome change for companies that own office buildings and hotels, or those that lease space to restaurants, bars, department stores and other retailers. (AP Photo/John Raoux)
Pandemic impact may weigh on commercial real estate recovery

By Alex Veiga Apr. 08, 2021 11:19 AM EDT

FILE - In this June 24, 2015 file photo, American-Brazilian businessman David Neeleman, right, talks to journalists during a join news conference with his partner Portuguese businessman Humberto Pedrosa, in Lisbon. Two new U.S. airlines are planning on starting service this spring, tapping into the travel recovery that is picking up speed. Breeze Airways is the latest creation of Neeleman, who founded JetBlue Airways more than 20 years ago. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco, File)
2 new airlines await Americans looking to fly somewhere

By David Koenig Apr. 08, 2021 11:02 AM EDT

Amtrak passenger rail service to return to Vermont in July

Apr. 08, 2021 08:37 AM EDT
MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — The state of Vermont is preparing to welcome the return of Amtrak passenger rail service and inter-city bus services to the state, the...

A woman receives a dose of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine manufactured by the Serum Institute of India and provided through the global COVAX initiative, at Kenyatta National Hospital in Nairobi, Thursday, April 8, 2021. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)
Africa CDC says vaccine passports 'inappropriate' for now

By Rodney Muhumuza Apr. 08, 2021 06:56 AM EDT

Malaysians and Singaporeans stranded in Macao during pandemic, pose for a photo before getting on a special AirAsia flight to Kuala Lumpur, in Macao airport, Thursday, April 8, 2021. About 50 people of various nationalities boarded a chartered flight from Macao to Malaysia on Thursday after many were stranded for months by the pandemic and border restrictions. (AP Photo)
Chartered flight from Macao carries stranded passengers home

By Zen Soo Apr. 08, 2021 05:46 AM EDT

FILE - In this Dec. 23, 2017, file photo, tourists visit Banteay Srey temple outside Siem Reap, Cambodia. Cambodia is closing the Angkor temple complex to visitors because of a growing COVID-19 outbreak. On Thursday, April 8, 2021, the Health Ministry said 113 cases were reported from local transmission, with two deaths. The ministry traced the outbreak to a foreign resident who broke hotel quarantine to visit a nightclub. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith, File)
Cambodia's Angkor site shut for 2 weeks to curb coronavirus

By Sopheng Cheang Apr. 08, 2021 04:50 AM EDT

Holocaust survivor Fanny Amar wearing a face mask amid the coronavirus holds a rose as she and others attend the yearly Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony in Haifa, Israel, Thursday, April 8, 2021. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
The Latest: US 7th Fleet: 14,000 personnel fully vaccinated

By The Associated Press Apr. 08, 2021 01:26 AM EDT

Aussie field hockey teams face lack of games before Olympics

Apr. 08, 2021 12:39 AM EDT
PERTH, Australia (AP) — Australia's traditionally strong Olympic field hockey teams are having trouble playing competitive matches ahead of the Tokyo Games,...

Editorial Roundup: US

By The Associated Press Apr. 07, 2021 07:51 PM EDT
Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: ___ April 7 The Boston Globe on ...

Porto's Pepe, centre, heads the ball during the Champions League, first leg, quarterfinal soccer match between FC Porto and Chelsea at the Ramon Sanchez-Pizjuan stadium in Seville, Spain, Wednesday, April 7, 2021. (AP Photo/Angel Fernandez)
Solid Chelsea beats Porto 2-0 in 1st leg of CL quarterfinals

Apr. 07, 2021 04:56 PM EDT

Missouri Senate votes to ban vaccine passports

Apr. 07, 2021 04:02 PM EDT
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Missouri's Republican-led Senate on Wednesday voted to ban so-called vaccine passports in the state. Senators voted...