Utqiagvik, Alaska — formerly known as Barrow — won’t see the sun rise for 64 days. The nation’s northernmost town — Utqiagvik, Alaska — is about to descend into months of darkness. Think of it this way: By the time the sun rises again, a new president will occupy the White House.

In the town of Utqiaġvik, Alaska, the winters can be particularly brutal. The average temperature of the northernmost town in the U.S. in December rests below zero, and the city undergoes the unique experience of polar night—which for them is a period of more than 60 days of darkness when the residents live without daylight.

For the second week in a row, the Supreme Court did not add any new cases to its docket for the 2024-25 term. In a list of orders released on Monday morning, the justices turned down several dozen petitions for review that they had considered at their private conference on Friday,

The Supreme Court has left in place disclosure rules for campaign contributions that Alaska voters approved in a 2020 ballot measure