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A woman enjoys the sun at Plaka beach on the Aegean island of Naxos, Greece, Friday, May 14, 2021. Greece launched its tourism season Friday amid a competitive scramble across the Mediterranean to lure vacationers emerging from lockdowns. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

The Latest: Dutch govt eases travel to vacation spots

The Latest: Dutch govt eases travel to vacation spots
A woman enjoys the sun at Plaka beach on the Aegean island of Naxos, Greece, Friday, May 14, 2021. Greece launched its tourism season Friday amid a competitive scramble across the Mediterranean to lure vacationers emerging from lockdowns. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)
Let's face it: Washington adjusts to new mask guidance
FILE - In this May 13, 2021, file photo Vice President Kamala Harris listens as President Joe Biden speaks on updated guidance on face mask mandates and COVID-19 response, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday that fully vaccinated people - those who are two weeks past their last required dose of a COVID-19 vaccine - can stop wearing masks outdoors in crowds and in most indoor settings. Across Washington, the government is adjusting in a variety of ways to new federal guidance easing up on when face masks should be worn. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)
Philadelphia now says MOVE victims' remains weren't cremated
FILE - In this May, 1985 file photo, scores of row houses burn in a fire in the west Philadelphia neighborhood. Police dropped a bomb on the militant group MOVE's home on May 13, 1985 in an attempt to arrest members, leading to the burning of scores of homes in the neighborhood. A day after Philadelphia's health commissioner was forced to resign over the cremation of partial remains thought to belong to victims of a 1985 bombing of the headquarters of a Black organization, the city now says those victims' remains were never destroyed. City officials told the victims' family Friday, May 14, 2021 that a subordinate had disobeyed Health Commissioner Thomas Farley's 2017 order to dispose of the remains. (AP Photo/File)
The Latest: New Mexico adopts CDC guidance on facemasks
A banner designed last year for the Kayhi Class of 2020 by Ketchikan artist Matt Hamilton is on display at the intersection of Jefferson Way and Tongass Avenue in Ketchikan, Alaska on Tuesday, May 11, 2021. Restaurants, bars and gyms in the Alaska port town of Ketchikan have been asked to close as officials attempt to slow the spread of COVID-19 after the city's pandemic risk level was raised to its highest level. (Dustin Safranek/Ketchikan Daily News via AP)
US calls reports of migrant children in buses 'unacceptable'
FILE - In this Wednesday, March 17, 2021, file photo, charter buses arrive at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center in Dallas, escorted by Federal Protective Service Police. Reports of unaccompanied migrant children being forced to stay overnight in parked buses at the Dallas convention center are
Specialist explains how COVID-19 impacts people with heart conditions
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Local specialist encourages public to get thyroid checked
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UndocuHealth: Staying grounded through traditional practices
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States, business sort out what new CDC mask guidance means
A customer exits a corner market while wearing a protective mask in the retail shopping district of the SoHo neighborhood of the Manhattan borough of New York, Friday, May 14, 2021. Gov. Andrew Cuomo has yet to say whether he will change his state's mask mandate in light of new federal guidance that eases rules for fully vaccinated people. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
Walmart to allow vaccinated shoppers, workers to go maskless
FILE - In this Nov. 18, 2020 file photo, a woman, wearing a protective face mask due to the COVID-19 virus outbreak, wheels a cart with her purchases out of a Walmart store, in Derry, N.H. Walmart, the world's largest retailer, said Friday, May 14, 2021 that it won't require vaccinated shoppers or workers to wear a mask in its U.S. stores, unless state or local laws say otherwise. Vaccinated shoppers can go maskless immediately, the company said. Vaccinated workers can stop wearing them on May 18. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)
Mississippi justices toss voter-backed marijuana initiative
Mississippi Supreme Court Associate Justice Josiah Dennis Coleman questions attorneys presenting arguments over a lawsuit that challenges the state's initiative process and seeks to overturn a medical marijuana initiative that voters approved in November 2020, Wednesday, April 14, 2021, in Jackson, Miss. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
Explainer: Why did Yankees test positive after vaccination?
FILE - In this March 19, 2021, file photo, a nurse fills a syringe with COVID-19 vaccine at a mass vaccination site in Kansas City, Mo. The COVID-19 infections among the New York Yankees team and staff underscore that coronavirus infections are possible even after vaccination. One player, three coaches and four staff members have tested positive since Sunday, May 9, 2021. All eight were vaccinated in April or March. Only one developed any symptoms. No vaccine works 100% of the time, so sometimes vaccinated people get infected or even sick. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner, File)
Let's face it: Washington adjusts to new mask guidance
FILE - In this May 13, 2021, file photo Vice President Kamala Harris listens as President Joe Biden speaks on updated guidance on face mask mandates and COVID-19 response, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday that fully vaccinated people - those who are two weeks past their last required dose of a COVID-19 vaccine - can stop wearing masks outdoors in crowds and in most indoor settings. Across Washington, the government is adjusting in a variety of ways to new federal guidance easing up on when face masks should be worn. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)
'Fetal heartbeat' in abortion laws taps emotion, not science
FILE - In this Feb. 14, 2012, file photo, Janet Folger Porter, president and founder of Faith 2 Action, posts signs during a news conference at the Ohio Statehouse in Columbus, Ohio. Bans pegged to the
Cuba rolls out mass vaccines while awaiting study results
People wait to be vaccinated with the Cuban Abdala vaccine for COVID-19 at a doctors' office, decorated with an image of Fidel Castro and a Cuban flag, in the Alamar neighborhood of Havana, Cuba, Friday, May 14, 2021. Cuba began immunizing people this week with its own vaccines, Abdala and Soberana 02, the only ones developed by a Latin American country. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
Diplomats, donors concerned about sex abuse reports at WHO
FILE - In this file photo dated Friday, Aug. 10, 2018, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director General, speaks to a health official at a newly established Ebola response center in Beni, Democratic Republic of Congo. British, European and American diplomats and donors have voiced serious concerns about how the World Health Organization handled sex abuse allegations involving their own staff during an outbreak of Ebola in Congo. (AP Photo/Al-hadji Kudra Maliro, FILE)
The unwitting are the target of COVID-19 falsehoods online
Dr. Michelle Rockwell, who was targeted by vaccine opponents after she posted about her miscarriage online, looks at her Instagram page with her hijacked post marked as fake news during an interview at her home Wednesday, April 28, 2021, in Jenks, Okla. Individuals across the country, like Rockwell, have found themselves swept into the misinformation maelstrom, their online posts or their very identities hijacked by anti-vaccine activists and others peddling lies about the COVID-19 outbreak. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)
UK eager for a big reopening thanks to vaccine success
FILE - In this Monday, April 12, 2021 file photo, a woman takes a photo on her phone of her drink in Soho, London, as some of England's coronavirus lockdown restrictions were eased by the government. Thanks to an efficient vaccine roll out program and high uptake rates, Britain is finally saying goodbye to months of tough lockdown restrictions. From Monday May 17, 2021, all restaurants and bars can fully reopen, as can hotels, cinemas, theatres and museums, and for the first time since March 2020, Britons can hug friends and family and meet up inside other people's houses. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali, File)
Delta will require new hires to be vaccinated against virus
FILE - In this May 14, 2020 file photo, several dozen mothballed Delta Air Lines jets are parked on a closed runway at Kansas City International Airport in Kansas City, Mo. Delta Air Lines will require new employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19 starting Monday, May 17, 2021. The airline won't impose the same requirement on current employees, more than 60% of whom are vaccinated, a Delta spokesman said Friday. Delta has about 74,000 employees. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)
Europe's 4 Visegrad nations lift some travel restrictions
Slovak Foreign Minister Ivan Korcok,left,, Polish Foreign Minister Zbigniew Rau ,Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto and Czech Republic Foreign Minister Tomas Petricek ,right, walk after the foreign ministers of the Visegrad Group ,V4, meeting in Lodz, Poland, Friday, May 14, 2021.(AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
Turkish tourism video sparks outcry, unequal treatment claim
People walk in Eminonu market, an area usually packed with shop goers, but currently nearly deserted due to the strict lockdown to help curb the spread of the coronavirus, in Istanbul, Saturday, May 8, 2021. The
Japan expands virus emergency ahead of Tokyo Olympics
Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga speaks during a press conference at the prime minister's official residence on Friday, May 14, 2021, in Tokyo. Suga announced that the current coronavirus state of emergency covering Tokyo, Osaka and a number of other areas, will be extended to the prefectures of Hokkaido, Okayama and Hiroshima from Sunday as Japan battles a fourth wave of coronavirus. (Yuichi Yamazaki/Pool Photo via AP)
Greece joins Mediterranean race to win back tourists
Workers arrange sunbeds as others install umbrellas at Plaka beach on the Aegean island of Naxos, Greece, Wednesday, May 12, 2021. With debts piling up, southern European countries are racing to reopen their tourism services despite delays in rolling out a planned EU-wide travel pass. Greece Friday became the latest country to open up its vacation season as it dismantles lockdown restrictions and focuses its vaccination program on the islands. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)
Irish health system targeted in 'serious' ransomware attack
FILE - In this Friday, Feb. 21, 2020 file photo, Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar arrives for an EU summit at the European Council building in Brussels. Ireland's health service says it has shut down its IT systems after being targeted in a
Portugal opens door to British tourists, ending uncertainty
FILE - In this file photo dated Thursday, Jan. 28, 2021, airplanes are parked at Lisbon's international airport. British tourists will be admitted to Portugal on nonessential travel from May 17, ending days of uncertainty over whether thousands of U.K. vacation bookings for Portuguese destinations would be allowed, the Portuguese foreign ministry said in a statement Friday May 14, 2021. (AP Photo/Armando Franca, FILE)
Bill Maher taping canceled after host's positive virus test
FILE - In this Sunday, Feb. 26, 2017, file photo, Bill Maher arrives at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party in Beverly Hills, Calif. A taping of Maher's weekly HBO show was cancelled after the host tested positive for COVID. Maher, who is fully vaccinated, is
Fully vaccinated can drop the masks, skip social distancing
Vice President Kamala Harris listens as President Joe Biden speaks on updated guidance on mask mandates, in the Rose Garden of the White House, Thursday, May 13, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Flu season hits New Mexico
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Study: Students get more concussions in P.E. than sports
Study: Students get more concussions in P.E. than sports
More West Nile cases reported in New Mexico
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Working out while pregnant can make labor easier, expert says
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NM requires students to be up-to-date on vaccines before school begins
NM requires students to be up-to-date on vaccines before school begins
New Mexico expands medical marijuana program
New Mexico expands medical marijuana program
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