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New Year’s Eve will be a dud for restaurants

In a fitting end to what has been a nightmare 2020 for the dining industry, restaurants and bars will largely miss out on what should be one of the most lucrative nights of the year. New Year’s Eve—famous for overpriced meals and plenty of alcoholic beverages—will be a quiet affair as restaurants grapple with occupancy limits, early […]

‘A curfew in o’clock is Similar to Shutting restaurants’: To the French, the Most Recent COVID Steps cross a Lineup

Measures from Paris’s Notre-Dame Cathedral remains among the town’s oldest pubs, Au Vieux Paris D’Arcoleand also a Medieval stone whose rock walls and ribbons (as well as nice cuisine) have wowed traffic for years. But after almost 500 decades, the restaurant is currently fighting to live the latest calamity: The pandemic. Following a yearlong nationally […]

Biden to name judge Merrick Garland as attorney general

President-elect Joe Biden has selected Merrick Garland, a federal appeals court judge who in 2016 was snubbed by Republicans for a seat on the Supreme Court, as his attorney general, two people familiar with the selection process said Wednesday. In picking Garland, Biden is turning to an experienced judge who held senior positions at the […]