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When is Easter Sunday 2024?
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The first signs of spring mean Easter is just around the corner.
Whether you’ve got a little one at home hoping for an overflowing Easter basket, or you’re hosting your extended family on Easter Sunday, you’re going to need to know when Easter is this year — and how to score the perfect Easter basket and Easter gifts. Keep reading for everything you need to know to prepare for Easter 2024.
When is Easter 2024?
Get your Easter baskets ready and hide your chocolate bunnies. Easter is Sunday, March 31, 2024. The official end of the 40 days of Lent, Easter is an important day in the Christian faith and celebrates the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
Best Easter baskets of 2024
When it comes to Easter baskets, make sure you order with enough time for your basket to arrive (and before the top picks sell out). Usually filled with sweet treats and chocolates, you’re never too old to give or receive an Easter basket.
Best chocolate and candy Easter basket: Harry & David Grand Easter basket
Harry & David
Harry & David is known for its elegant gift baskets featuring the perfect combination of chocolates, candies, fruit and savory snacks. The gifting brand delivers once again with its massive (and delicious) Easter basket, which includes a solid milk chocolate bunny, malt ball mini eggs, dark chocolate-covered popcorn, yogurt-covered pretzels, an assortment of chocolate truffles, Robin egg marshmallows and more. The icing on the cake is the four gorgeous pears included in the basket.
This Easter basket comes in a beautiful woven basket and is finished with a hand-tied bow. This five-pound Easter basked is available at Harry & David for $110. Standard shipping takes 4-7 business days.
Best assortment: Cravebox Easter basket for kids and adults
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If you’re looking for an Easter basket that doesn’t lean heavily on chocolate, this 55-piece Easter basket is a snack lover’s dream. Filled with snack sizes of sweet and savory treats, there is something (and then some) for everyone in this terrific Easter basket.
Available at Amazon, it’s well presented with all the items already placed and standing up for a full dramatic effect. The wrapped basket is placed in an Easter-themed box and sent directly to you.
This 55-count Easter basket is priced at $50. It’s rated 4.3 stars at Amazon.
Best Easter flower delivery services in 2024
One of the best ways to welcome spring and celebrate Easter is with flowers. It’s never been easier to order flowers online.
While you could go with one of the most well-known flower delivery services, you can find better arrangements at competitive prices elsewhere. Use flowers as an Easter gift, a centerpiece or a host gift on Easter Sunday.
Best online flower delivery service: The Bouqs Co.
The Bouqs Co.
As seen on ABC’s competition reality show “Shark Tank”, The Bouqs Co. promises farm-fresh quality flowers guaranteed to stay fresher longer. Their flowers are responsibly sourced and rooted in kindness — to the planet and the brand’s partners. Because flowers are sourced directly from the farms in which they grow, there is no middleman. Flowers are in transit for less time, which means they’ll stay in bloom longer before wilting.
The Bouqs Co. offers free shipping to subscribers, or a $15 flower delivery charge will apply to most deliveries.
Best flower quality and selection: UrbanStems
UrbanStems
We like the quality, variety of offerings, freshness and style of UrbanStems. UrbanStems guarantees same-day or next-day delivery to New York City, Washington D.C., Los Angeles, Chicago, Atlanta and Miami. The online flower retailer does offer coast-to-coast delivery to other cities, but can’t guarantee same-day or next-day delivery.
UrbanStems is a terrific choice if you’re looking for a modern and elevated Easter arrangement, or are looking for arrangements with elegant flowers other than roses.
Order at least 48 hours before your desired delivery date. Delivery costs $10-30 per order.
Best Easter gifts in 2024
An Easter gift doesn’t have to mean sweets or flowers. Whether you’re looking to fill an Easter basket yourself or gift a little one an Easter surprise, Easter gifts can brighten up anyone’s holiday.
Best Easter gift for little kids: Play-Doh egg set
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This 24-count Play-Doh egg set features colorful, plastic eggs filled with two ounces of bright Play-Doh molding clay. This non-toxic modeling compound comes in a variety of spring pastels, which can be used on an Easter egg hunt, in a gift basket or as an entire gift itself.
Amazon reviewers rate this Easter gift 4.7 stars, praising it as an alternative to the usual sugary Easter treats.
“Opened a couple and they are fun,” says one verified Amazon reviewer. “Nice feel and the two colors are great. These will be a good alternative to candy at the Easter Egg hunt this year!”
Trendiest Easter gift: Squishmallow Mystery Box (5 pc.)
Amazon
If you’re looking to score a terrific Easter gift while earning cool points with the kids in your life, order a Squishmallow Mystery Box this Easter. The Squishmallow Mystery Box contains five 5-inch plushes, each randomly chosen.
These cute plush collectibles make for a terrific snuggle companion or an addition to a growing Squishmallow collection. This TikTok-viral Easter gift appeals to kids who love unboxing videos and mystery packages.
Rated 4.6 stars at Amazon.
Best Easter gift for bath time: Egg bath bombs gift set (12 pc.)
Amazon
This gift set includes 12 pastel-colored egg-shaped bath bombs, perfect for the little bather in your life. Made from 100% natural ingredients, these bath bombs promise to create a whole lot of bubbles, and a whole lot of fun.
Each set comes with a clever set of Easter glasses. Styles vary per set. Regularly $27, this gift is priced at $23 after coupon at Amazon. Rated 4.6 stars.
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Sen. Mark Kelly says feds need to do a “better job” of letting Americans know “there’s a huge amount of misinformation” on election
Washington — Sen. Mark Kelly said Sunday that the federal government needs to do its part to inform Americans of the vast swath of election misinformation that’s being consumed on social media platforms like X, TikTok, Facebook and Instagram.
“It’s up to us, the people who serve in Congress and in the White House to get the information out there, that there is a tremendous amount of misinformation in this election, and it’s not going to stop on Nov. 5,” Kelly said on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan.”
Kelly, who sits on the Senate Intelligence Committee, said he’s seen these misinformation operations target not only his state of Arizona, but also other battleground states.
“There is a very reasonable chance I would put it in the 20 to 30% range, that the content you are seeing, the comments you are seeing, are coming from one of those three countries: Russia, Iran, China,” Kelly said.
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In a committee hearing last month on foreign threats to the 2024 election, Kelly presented screenshots of Russian-made web pages showing fabricated headlines designed to look like Fox News and The Washington Post, targeted at voters in battleground states.
“So my constituents in Arizona and others — they seek to influence the outcome of these elections, and that is absolutely beyond the pale,” Kelly said at the Sept. 18 hearing. “We’ve got to do something about it.”
Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump each have the support of 49% of Arizona voters, according to CBS News’ battleground tracker as of Sept. 30.
In another battleground state, Pennsylvania, Trump returned Saturday to hold a rally in Butler three months after an attempted assassination on him. He was joined by members of his own party and billionaire Elon Musk, who said Trump was the only way to preserve democracy and warned of a last election if he does not win in November.
Speaking to CNN’s State of the Union on Sunday, Kelly called the social media mogul a hypocrite.
“He’s standing next to the guy that tried to overturn the 2020 election on Jan. 6, saying that this is somehow going to be the last election and they’re going to take away your vote,” Kelly said. “And you know, it just doesn’t pass the logic test.”
At the White House press briefing on Friday, President Biden – speaking from the podium for the first time since taking office – said he’s confident of a free and fair election but alluded to the 2021 insurrection at the Capitol in his concerns on whether it will be a peaceful transfer of power.
“The things that Trump has said and the things that he said last time out when he didn’t like the outcome of the election were very dangerous,” Mr. Biden said. “If you notice, I noticed that the vice-presidential Republican candidate did not say he’d accept the outcome of the election, and they haven’t even accepted the outcome of the last election.”
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