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Tourists and locals have drinks at a bar in downtown Madrid, Spain, Friday, March 26, 2021. With its policy of open bars and restaurants — indoors and outdoors — and by keeping museums and theaters running even when outbreaks have strained hospitals, Madrid has built a reputation as an oasis of fun in Europe’s desert of restrictions. Other Spanish regions have a stricter approach to entertainment. Even sunny coastal resorts offer a limited range of options for the few visitors that started to arrive, coinciding with Easter week, amid a set of contradictory European travel rules. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

Spanish resorts languish while Madrid hosts Europe’s parties

By ARITZ PARRA - Associated Press

In break from region, hard-hit Hungary to loosen lockdown

By JUSTIN SPIKE - Associated Press

Germany's Health Minister Jens Spahn, left, and Lothar Wieler, the head of Germany's Robert Koch Institute (RKI) for disease control attend a news conference on the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic in Berlin, Germany March 26, 2021. (Hannibal Hanschke/Pool via AP)

Officials urge vigilance as Germany sees 3rd infection wave

By DAVID RISING - Associated Press

Romania OKs holding Easter celebrations despite virus surge

By STEPHEN MCGRATH - Associated Press

Passengers check in at Hamburg Airport, Germany, for flight Eurowings EW 7588 to Palma de Mallorca on Sunday, March 14, 2021. Due to sharply falling Corona infection figures, the German government lifts travel restrictions for Mallorca, Spain's most important tourism island. (Markus Scholz/dpa via AP) ** FILE **

Government urges Germans to limit travel as bookings surge

By FRANK JORDANS - Associated Press

Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith, archbishop of Colombo, second left, along with Buddhist monks and other Catholic devotees hold placards during a protest demanding justice for the 2019 Easter Sunday bomb attack victims out side the St. Anthony's church, one of attack sites, in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Sunday, March 7, 2021. Placards read, “Easter Sunday Massacre, Who ran the operation behind the curtain” (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)

Sri Lanka Catholics mark ‘Black Sunday’ for Easter victims

By KRISHAN FRANCIS - Associated Press

FILE - In this March 1, 2021, file photo, a patient receives a shot of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine next to a guidelines sign at a CVS Pharmacy branch in Los Angeles. More than 27 million Americans fully vaccinated against the coronavirus will have to keep waiting for guidance from U.S. health officials for what they should and shouldn’t do. The Biden administration said Friday, March 5, it’s focused on getting the guidance right and accommodating emerging science. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)

Americans vaccinated against COVID-19 still wait for advice

By CARLA K. JOHNSON and MIKE STOBBE and ZEKE MILLER - Associated Press

People, machines tackle snow to keep airport runways clear

By STEPHANIE SIGAFOOS and MOLLY BILINSKI and The (Allentown) Morning Call - Associated Press

A passenger wears a face mask she travels on a Delta Airlines flight Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2021, after taking off from Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta. Amid fears of new variants of the virus, new restrictions on movement have hit just as people start to look ahead to what is usually a busy time of year for travel. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel) ** FILE **

Around the globe, virus cancels spring travel for millions

By DAVID McHUGH and CASEY SMITH and JOE McDONALD - Associated Press

Lawmakers: Prison denied entry to responders during gas leak

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Three crows fly over a pathway after a snowfall in Blacksburg Va. Monday, Dec. 7 2020. (Matt Gentry/The Roanoke Times via AP)

D.C. region prepares for midweek winter storm

By Emily Zantow - The Washington Times

Police: 5 officers resign after Black man’s death in custody

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5 officers recommended for dismissal after death in custody

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Orthodox worshipers, a few wearing masks for protection against the COVID-19 virus, spread around an open archaeological site outside the Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul, which includes ruins dating as far back as the Roman Empire, hold candles during a religious service in the Black Sea port of Constanta, Romania, Wednesday, May 27, 2020. Romanian Orthodox Archbishop Teodosie rescheduled the Orthodox Easter service, which was to be held in mid-April, to offer worshippers an opportunity to celebrate Easter properly after the cancelling of the original April 19 service due to the national lockdown imposed because of the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

AP PHOTOS: Romanian port city marks Easter late due to virus

By VADIM GHIRDA - Associated Press

This undated photo provided by the family in May 2020 shows Joseph Policelli at the piano with his niece Stephanie Mayne. At funerals, he made the organ moan, and at weddings, it thundered in joy. On Christmas, bells twinkled; on Easter, trumpets blasted. He delivered victorious graduation marches and bellowing birthday celebrations, blaring the pipes and vibrating the pews every Sunday in between. He was unassuming, egoless and largely anonymous, but in the lives of generations of Catholics in communities around Massachusetts, Policelli played the soundtrack. He died from COVID-19 on April 27, 2020 at 71. (Family photo via AP)

Lives Lost: An unassuming maestro of Sunday soundtracks

By MATT SEDENSKY - Associated Press

In this Oct. 5, 2019, file photo, members of The Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square look on during The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' twice-annual church conference, in Salt Lake City. For the first time in more than 60 years, top leaders from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will deliver speeches at the faith's signature conference this weekend without anyone watching in the latest illustration of how the coronavirus pandemic is altering worship practices around the world. The twice-yearly conference normally brings some 100,000 people to the church conference center in Salt Lake City to watch five sessions over two days. This event, though, will be only a virtual one. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

Church choirs create perfect coronavirus transmission chain

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

In this Wednesday, April 29, 2020 photo selfie provided by Dr. Beth Oller, Oller, a family physician, smiles while standing outside her medical clinic, just south of Main Street in Stockton, Kan. Oller began preaching social distancing well before her home of Rooks County confirmed its first coronavirus case and now she's nervous about the state reopening its economy too soon. (Dr. Beth Oller via AP)

With rural Kansas close to reopening, doctor remains nervous

By JOHN HANNA - Associated Press

Small Indiana businesses adjust operations amid shutdowns

By BROOKE MCAFEE - Associated Press

Wyoming congregations maintain community amid distancing

By MELISSA CASSUTT and GABE ALLEN - Associated Press

Grandparents rely on drive-bys, technology to stay in touch

By CANDY NEAL - Associated Press