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From January 7 to 31, 2025, a series of 14 destructive wildfires affected the Los Angeles metropolitan area and San Diego County in California, United States. [5] The fires were exacerbated by drought conditions, low humidity, a buildup of vegetation from the previous winter, and hurricane-force Santa Ana winds, which in some places reached 100 miles per hour (160 km/h; 45 m/s).
State Income Tax Rate Reduction Initiative Decrease the state income tax rate from 4.55% to 4.40% for tax years commencing on or after January 1, 2022. Passed
The middle 19th century was a period of transition toward industrialization, particularly in the Northeast, which produced cotton textiles and shoes. The population of the West (generally meaning from Ohio to and including Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa and Missouri and south to include Kentucky) grew rapidly.
On 19 October 2023, the FCC voted 3–2 to approve a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) that seeks comments on a plan to restore net neutrality rules and regulation of Internet service providers. [83] On 25 April 2024, the FCC voted 3–2 to reinstate net neutrality in the United States by reclassifying the Internet under Title II.
Generation Z (or Gen Z for short), colloquially known as Zoomers, [1] [2] is the demographic cohort succeeding Millennials and preceding Generation Alpha. [3]Members of Generation Z, were born between the mid-to-late 1990s and the early 2010s, with the generation typically being defined as those born from 1997 to 2012.
Because tartan Highland dress was so strongly symbolically linked to the militant Jacobite cause, [308] the act – a highly political throwback to the long-abandoned sumptuary laws [308] – banned the wearing of Highland dress by men and boys in Scotland north of the River Forth (i.e. in the Highlands), [as] except for the landed gentry [at ...
City buildings and suburban houses are regularly hijacked by syndicates who collect rent from immigrants and the homeless, [293] and these become dens for additional criminal activities. [294] In Johannesburg alone, the JMPD unit has made thousands of arrests and had returned 73 buildings to their rightful owners by 2018, [ 295 ] while by 2023 ...