Daily Horoscope For Jan. 2, 2025

A man fell asleep at the wheel before the rollover crash that killed himself and the mother of his two children while the family was driving near Lefthand Canyon on New Year’s Day, according to Colorado State Patrol. Joshua and Christina Gilson, both 43, were residents of Castle Rock and were identified Friday by the Boulder County Coroner’s Office.

Denver is expanding its homeless shelter offerings Monday afternoon through Wednesday morning, as cold weather and snow threaten residents sleeping outdoors. The city faces a 50% chance of snow Monday night, with temperatures expected to fall as low as 19, followed by more snow Tuesday and an overnight low of 11, according to the National Weather Service. Individual men seeking shelter should go to the Denver Rescue Mission Lawrence Street Community Center at 2222 Lawrence St., while individual women can find shelter through Samaritan House at 2301 Lawrence St. Teenagers and young adults between the ages of 15 and 20 can shelter at Urban Peak, located at 1630 S.

The most compelling possible 1-on-1 matchup to decide an NBA game transpired on the third night of 2025. Nikola Jokic holding the basketball at the free-throw line. Victor Wembanyama defending the basket and protecting a one-point lead. Nine years of age separated them as Jokic tried to get to his patented shot, the Sombor Shuffle, on Friday night in Denver.

By KATE PAYNE and BILL BARROW PLAINS, Ga. (AP) — Jimmy Carter ‘s long public goodbye began Saturday in Georgia, with the 39th U. S. president’s flag-draped casket rolling through his tiny hometown and past his boyhood farmhouse on its way to Atlanta, where he climbed the political ladder and based his decades of humanitarian work after leaving the White House. The former president’s six-day state funeral started in Americus at the Phoebe Sumter Medical Center, where current and former Secret Service agents who protected the late president loaded his remains into a black hearse and walked alongside as it rolled off the campus toward Plains.

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Paul Krugman points out that wealth and power attract people who tell you what you want to hear. There are wealthy men with enough humility to accept constructive criticism — "I’ve met some of them. But such men don’t seem likely to play a role in the incoming administration," Krugman says: What this means in the current context is that almost all attempts to refute Trump’s claims that he can replace income taxes with tariffs aim too high.