As a federal holiday, it’s worth checking to see what’s open and closed on Monday.
WASHINGTON — Monday is a federal holiday in the U.S. known as Columbus Day or Indigenous Peoples Day. Because it’s a federal holiday, you might want to check what’s open before running your errands.
The federal holiday itself is for Columbus Day. But as attention has shifted to Columbus’ life and the alleged cruel behavior toward native people who lived in the land that would later become the United States, several states have backtracked on celebrating Columbus Day. Instead, they created a new holiday on the same day that honors those
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