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Restaurants scrapped printed menus and told diners to scan QR codes. Plexiglass partitions were installed between tables. Restaurants began selling more merchandise and even kitchen goods.Last fall, my colleagues in the Food...

YREKA, Calif. — Authorities battling wind-whipped fires that have forced the evacuation of thousands of people in Northern California said Sunday that the blazes had claimed at least two lives.“I have the...

MAKANDA, Ill. — The middle schoolers at Camp Indigo Point were hanging out by their cabins after swimming in the lake, practicing the ukulele and stuffing foil packets with ground beef and...

The Senate Republican refund rate equals 6.6 percent of direct individual donations this cycle; the Senate Democratic committee’s rate is 1.67 percent.WinRed declined to comment on stopping the Senate committee from using...

At New York Telephone, Ms. Loden and a colleague, Wendy Fleder (now Wendy Tyler), initiated what was known at the time as sensitivity training, essentially consciousness-raising workshops, which were so successful that...

Officials in Mississippi warned residents to be on alert after a pilot threatened to intentionally crash into a Walmart in Tupelo on Saturday morning and continued to fly above and around the...

It’s Friday. You told us how you feel about ripping out your lawns during the drought. Plus, California lawmakers approve a wave of aggressive new climate measures.After decades of dedication to their...

For more than a century, governments have offered electric utilities a monopoly on selling power to homes and businesses so long as they agreed to serve everybody and subject themselves to regulation.But...

The allure of California has long been its almost unbelievably good weather: predictably dry summers and pleasant, if occasionally rainy, winters. Who wouldn’t want to escape swampy heat for this temperate paradise?Our...

By that metric, she said, the last few sessions of Congress have been astonishingly vibrant — and far more bipartisan than most analysts think. For instance, the coronavirus relief and spending bill...