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2024 U.S. presidential election: Candidate: Kamala Harris 49th Vice President of the United States (2021–present) Tim Walz 41st Governor of Minnesota (2019–present) Affiliation: Democratic Party: Status: Announced: July 21, 2024 Presumptive nominee: July 22, 2024 Official nominee: August 5, 2024: Headquarters: Wilmington, Delaware [1] Key ...
Holidays proclaimed in this way may be considered a U.S. "national observance", but it would be improper to refer to them as "federal holidays". Many of these observances designated by Congress are authorized under permanent law under Title 36, U.S. Code , in which cases the President is under obligation to issue an annual proclamation.
The 2024 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday, 4 July 2024 to elect 650 members of Parliament to the House of Commons, the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The opposition Labour Party , led by Keir Starmer , defeated the governing Conservative Party , led by Rishi Sunak , in a landslide victory .
Public holidays in Canada (French: Jours fériés au Canada), known as statutory holidays, stat holidays, or simply stats (French: jours fériés), consist of a variety of cultural, nationalistic, and religious holidays that are legislated in Canada at the federal or provincial and territorial levels. While many of these holidays are honoured ...
26 June – Former President Juan Orlando Hernández is sentenced to 45 years in prison and fined $8 million for drug trafficking and firearms offences by a U.S. federal court. [6] 1 August – Former National Police of Honduras commander Juan Carlos Bonilla Valladares is sentenced to 19 years in prison for drug trafficking by a U.S. federal ...
New York Consolidated Laws designate the second Sunday in June as Flag Day, a state holiday. [6] Flag Day is not an official federal holiday. Federal law leaves it to the discretion of president to officially proclaim the observance. Title 36 of the United States Code, Subtitle I, Part A, Chapter 1, Section 110 [7] is the official statute on ...
Native American Heritage Day is a civil holiday that is celebrated on the day after Thanksgiving also known as "Black Friday".According to SAMHSA "As of 2021, there are 574 federally recognized Tribes in the United States.
The following is a list of events of the year 2024 in the United States, as well as predicted and scheduled events that have not yet occurred.. With the dominant political story of this year being the 2024 presidential election, much attention had focused on Democratic incumbent Joe Biden's upcoming rematch against Republican Donald Trump, who Biden defeated four years earlier.