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Winter Solstice 2024: The shortest day and longest night

Pix11.com 

NEW YORK (PIX11) – Winter is coming. Here’s what you need to know for the official winter solstice. The season officially starts on Saturday at 4:21 a.m., also known as the winter solstice. According to the Farmer’s Almanac, the sun reaches the Tropic of Capricorn during the solstice, creating the shortest day and longest night [...]

WATCH: Another part of the US sinking?

ABC News 

Researchers at the University of Miami found at least 35 coastal buildings in South Florida are affected by what they call subsidence.

An Alabama woman is doing well after the latest experimental pig kidney transplant

«SFGate» (sfgate.com) 

An Alabama woman received a pig kidney transplant last month and is free from dialysis for the first time eight years. Towana Looney is the fifth American given a gene-edited pig organ in a quest to make animal-to-human transplants a reality. Importantly, she wasn’t as sick as prior patients who received pig kidneys or hearts. The others died within two months. Doctors at NYU Langone Health announced Tuesday that Looney was recovering well after the Nov. 25 transplant, a step toward formal studies of pig organs that could begin next year.

Meta Fined $253 Million Over Facebook Hacks By Ireland

Ndtv.com 

An Irish regulator helping to police European Union data privacy said Tuesday it had fined Facebook-owner Meta 251 million euros ($263 million) for a data protection failure that saw Facebook accounts...

Waspi: Fury as women hit by state pension age rise are denied payouts - BBC.com

Sports - Google News (uk) 

  1. Waspi: Fury as women hit by state pension age rise are denied payouts  BBC.com
  2. Fury as women hit by pension age rise denied payouts  BBC
  3. Labour has shamelessly betrayed Waspis – but it was the right thing to do  The Telegraph
  4. Government response to Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman (PHSO) report  GOV.UK
  5. ‘Day of shame’: Labour will not pay Waspi women compensation, Liz Kendall announces  The Independent

"It Broke Him": Mother Who Lost Son in "Kids for Cash" Scheme Slams Biden's Clemency for Corrupt Judge

Democracy Now! 

President Joe Biden’s decision to grant clemency to a corrupt former judge has sparked widespread outrage, including from members of his own party. Biden announced nearly 1,500 commutations and pardons last week in what the White House described as the largest single-day act of clemency from a president, but among those whose sentences were reduced is former Pennsylvania Judge Michael Conahan — one of two judges in the notorious “kids for cash” scandal. In 2011, Conahan was sentenced to 17.5 years... Читать дальше...