Ready or not, D.C. restaurants are returning to full capacity. Here’s how the first night went. Emily Heil, Tim Carman India Rice, right, and Derrick Edwards have drinks and wings at the main bar at Old Ebbitt Grill on Friday. (Robb Hill for The Washington Post) Jason Lukacs strode the length of the main bar at the Old Ebbitt Grill, pumping a fist in the air. “Ya ready, ya ready, ya ready?” he asked. The question was meant not just for his colleagues who were cutting orange wedges and lengths of celery but also, it seemed, for the empty dining room beyond.
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She’s chasing a Washington dream. He’s the Night Mayor. Ben Terris It’s a Wednesday evening in April, and the ambiance at Old Ebbitt Grill, the historic tourist trap steps from the White House, feels familiar, if not exactly normal. The restaurant is operating at 25 percent capacity, per D.C’s covid-19 guidelines. A family with two young boys work their way through a mountain of french fries, waiters in black masks bring martinis to tables separated by transparent dividers, and a new political power couple tucks quietly into a back booth. Symone Sanders, 31, senior adviser to Vice President Harris, has just come from work, wearing a camel-hair-colored shawl, her long, rainbow fingernails tapping on her phone.
South Korean opposition politician meets with U.S. North Korea rights activist
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Former Prime Minister Hwang Kyo-ahn (R) said on his Facebook page Thursday that he exchanged views with a U.S. North Korea rights activist during a visit to Washington. File Photo by Yonhap News Agency/UPI
May 7 (UPI) A former South Korean prime minister strongly criticized Seoul s North Korea human rights approach after meeting with U.S. rights activist Suzanne Scholte.
Hwang Kyo-ahn, a former justice minister under ex-President Park Geun-hye, suggested in a Facebook post published late Thursday that the South Korean government has politicized North Korea human rights. He made the post after meeting with Scholte, chair of the North Korea Freedom Coalition in Washington, D.C., EDaily reported Friday.