A Holy Year is about to start in Rome. Here’s what you need to know Pope Francis is formally inaugurating the 2025 Holy Year, reviving an ancient church tradition encouraging the faithful to make pilgrimages to Rome, amid new security fears following a Christmas ... 12/22/2024 - 2:15 pm | View Link
In a calendar rarity, Hanukkah starts this year on Christmas Day Hanukkah, Judaism’s eight-day Festival of Lights, begins this year on Christmas Day, only the fourth time that’s happened since 1900. For some rabbis, the intersection of the two religious holidays ... 12/21/2024 - 6:17 am | View Link
Saturday is the shortest day of the year, start of winter. When will we see more sun? Saturday is winter solstice, the shortest day of the year and start of winter. Trump has vowed to end daylight saving time. What could 2025 look like? 12/20/2024 - 8:19 pm | View Link
Winter solstice 2024: The shortest day of the year is arriving The winter solstice is more than just an astronomical event. It symbolizes the cyclical nature of time, marking the end of one phase and the gradual return of light. While Dec. 21 may bring the ... 12/20/2024 - 3:33 am | View Link
Longest night of the year: What to know about the winter solstice The solstice occurs at the same time everywhere on Earth, this year it happens Dec. 21 at 4:21 a.m. EST. For the Northern Hemisphere, it marks the astronomical start of winter because the North Pole ... 12/19/2024 - 9:04 pm | View Link
Leap Years (Is 2025 a Leap Year?) No, 2025 is not a leap year. The last leap day fell on February 29, 2024. The next one is February 29, 2028. Leap Year Rules: How to Calculate Leap Years. In our modern-day Gregorian calendar, three criteria must be taken into account to identify leap years: 12/22/2024 - 1:09 am | View Website
Gregorian Calendar: The World’s Standard Calendar At the heart of the Gregorian calendar reform was a new way of calculating leap years, which allowed for sporadic exceptions to the 4-year rule. These are the rules we still follow today: Leap years are evenly divisible by 4. If the year can be evenly divided by 100, it is not a leap year, unless... 12/22/2024 - 12:04 am | View Website
Date Duration Calculator: Days Between Dates The Duration Calculator calculates the number of days, months and years between two dates. 12/21/2024 - 11:07 pm | View Website
When Is the Next Leap Year? When is the next Leap Year? A Leap Year consists of 366 days – not 365 – where February 29 is added as an extra day at the end of February. 12/21/2024 - 8:22 pm | View Website
February 30 Was a Real Date Today, the month of February has 28 days in common years and 29 days in leap years. But February 30 has been a real date at least twice in history. 12/21/2024 - 4:55 pm | View Website
“President-elect Donald Trump has tapped multiple people for overlapping foreign affairs posts. Get ready for turf battles and confusion over who’s in charge,” Politico reports.
“The positions include special envoys whose exact responsibilities are unusually vague and that echo roles traditionally played by ambassadors, assistant secretaries of State and National Security Council staffers.”
Elaine Godfrey: “The normal rules of public disgrace may no longer apply to Donald Trump. But at least some expectation of good behavior remains, it seems, for a politician in Trump’s orbit…”
“A man who reportedly dreams of being Florida governor is now facing the blunt reality of his own political irrelevance.”
New York Times: “Heading into the 2024 election, the conservative group Turning Point Action made a risky and expensive bet as it tried to fix Republicans’ early-voting problem: It zeroed in on infrequent voters who seemed to lean to the right.”
“Calling its effort ‘Chase the Vote,’ the group focused heavily on Arizona, where it is based and says it spent tens of millions of dollars to help elect Donald Trump.
Ron Brownstein: “This time, Trump’s fate will be much more in his own hands. If he can deliver greater economic stability for working families, while avoiding too many firefights on militant MAGA priorities, strategists in both parties agree that he will be in a strong position to consolidate the gains he’s made among traditionally Democratic constituencies, such as Black, Latino, and younger white men.”
“But if an unbound Trump veers in directions that too many voters don’t want to follow—including vaccine skepticism, politicizing the criminal-justice system against his opponents, and the separation of undocumented parents from their U.
This story was originally published by Vox.com and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.
The 2022 Inflation Reduction Act stands as the single largest piece of legislation to address climate change in United States history.
The IRA contains nearly $370 billion for programs like tax credits for more efficient appliances, building new battery plants, and subsidies for renewable energy.
Commerce City wants to impose some order on its marijuana sector.
Nearly all of its retail cannabis stores are located in the southern half of the city — with several clustered close together and more on the way — and elected leaders there want to spread the wealth.
Ultimately, they want to limit how much there is to spread of the industry’s impact, whether good or bad.