Tag: Occasions
AAA sees a huge jump in travel over Memorial Day weekend
<p>U.S. highways will be far busier over the Memorial Day holiday weekend than last year, but traffic still won't reach pre-pandemic levels, according to...
Younger adolescents get ready to receive COVID-19 vaccine
<p>MISSION, Kan. — Parents, schools and vaccine clinics rushed to begin inoculating younger adolescents Tuesday after U.S. regulators endorsed Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine for children...
Hit by COVID, Senegal’s women find renewed hope in fishing
BARGNY, Senegal — Since her birth on Senegal’s coast, the ocean has always given Ndeye Yacine Dieng life. Her grandfather was a fisherman, and...
‘Last hurrah’: 2020 college grads finally get ceremonies
WESTERVILLE, Ohio — After she was picked as commencement speaker for fellow 2020 graduates at Otterbein University, Katie Exline considered focusing her speech on...
Mexican mothers march in capital for disappeared children
MEXICO CITY — Hundreds of people observed Mothers Day in Mexico's capital Monday by marching to demand authorities find their missing children.
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Hit by COVID, Senegal’s women find renewed hope in fishing
<p>BARGNY, Senegal — Since her birth on Senegal’s coast, the ocean has always given Ndeye Yacine Dieng life. Her grandfather was a fisherman, and...
‘Last hurrah’: 2020 college grads finally get ceremonies
<p>WESTERVILLE, Ohio — After she was picked as commencement speaker for fellow 2020 graduates at Otterbein University, Katie Exline considered focusing her speech on...
Mexican mothers march in capital for disappeared children
<p>MEXICO CITY — Hundreds of people observed Mothers Day in Mexico's capital Monday by marching to demand authorities find their missing children. </p>
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In tense Jerusalem, flag-waving Israeli march to go ahead
JERUSALEM — Police on Sunday gave the go-ahead to the annual Jerusalem Day parade, a flag-waving display of Israeli claims to all of the...
Germany commemorates icon of resistance to Nazism
BERLIN — Germany on Sunday commemorated the 100th birthday of Sophie Scholl, a young woman who became an icon for her role in the...