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Sandy victims cheered by NYC's Thanksgiving parade

Posted: 22 Nov 2012 12:14 PM PST

People watch the 86th Annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, Thursday Nov. 22, 2012, in New York. The annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade put a festive mood in the air in a city still coping with the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy. (AP Photo/Tina Fineberg)Some victims of Superstorm Sandy enjoyed front row seats to the annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.

Massive pileup shuts I-10 in Texas; 2 dead

Posted: 22 Nov 2012 03:14 PM PST

Cars and Trucks are piled on Interstate 10 in Southeast Texas Thursday Nov. 22, 2012. The Texas Department of Public Safety says at least 35 people have been injured in a more than 50-vehicle pileup. (AP Photo/The Beaumont Enterprise, Guiseppe Barranco) Mandatory CreditTwo people died and more than 80 people were hurt Thursday when at least 100 vehicles collided in Southeast Texas in a pileup that left trucks twisted on top of each other and authorities rushing to pull survivors from the wreckage.

Tel Aviv bus bomb suspect arrested in Israel

Posted: 22 Nov 2012 01:21 PM PST

Israeli police officers examine a destroyed bus at the site of a bombing in Tel Aviv, Israel, Wednesday, Nov. 21, 2012. A bomb ripped through an Israeli bus near the nation's military headquarters in Tel Aviv on Wednesday, wounding several people, Israeli officials said. The blast came amid a weeklong Israeli offensive against Palestinian militants in Gaza.(AP Photo/Dan Balilty)Israeli authorities arrested an Arab Israeli on Thursday on accusations he planted a bomb on a bus in Tel Aviv that wounded 27 people and threatened to sabotage efforts to broker a cease-fire to end the fighting in Gaza, police said.

Obama family’s Thanksgiving feast menu

Posted: 22 Nov 2012 09:37 AM PST

President Barack Obama, with daughters Sasha, center, and Malia, right, carries on the Thanksgiving tradition of saving a turkey from the dinner table with a "presidential pardon" at the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 21, 2012. After the ceremony, "Cobbler" will head to George Washington's historic home in Virginia to be part of the "Christmas at Mount Vernon" exhibition. National Turkey Federation Chairman Steve Willardsen watches at left. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)President Barack Obama is spending Thanksgiving at the White House on Thursday with family, friends and staff, enjoying a feast that features six (!) different kinds of pie. In keeping with tradition, the president also called 10 members of the armed forces deployed in support of the war in Afghanistan, the White House said. He called [...]

Gaza truce holds as region steps back from brink

Posted: 22 Nov 2012 06:13 AM PST

Palestinian Hamas militants parade during a rally to celebrate the Israel-Hamas cease-fire in the Jebaliya refugee camp, north Gaza Strip, Thursday, Nov. 22, 2012. Gaza residents cleared rubble and claimed victory on Thursday, just hours after an Egyptian-brokered truce between Israel and Gaza's Hamas rulers ended the worst cross-border fighting in four years. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)Eight days of punishing Israeli airstrikes on Gaza and a barrage of Hamas rocket fire on Israeli ended inconclusively.

Black Friday starts on Thursday right after Thanksgiving dinner

Posted: 21 Nov 2012 11:38 PM PST

Black Friday Shopping Kicks Off After Thanksgiving DinnerSome of the nation's largest big-box stores can't wait until the day after Thanksgiving to open their doors to shoppers.

Doctor: Puerto Rico boxer Camacho is brain dead

Posted: 22 Nov 2012 03:16 PM PST

BOX-CAMACHO-DURAN-CAMACHO VICTORY-FILESFamed Puerto Rican boxer Hector ''Macho'' Camacho is clinically brain dead, doctors said Thursday, though they said family members were disagreeing on whether to take him off life support.

Wild turkeys overrun Massachusetts town

Posted: 22 Nov 2012 02:20 PM PST

Wild turkeys have been a strange but common sight in suburban and even urban areas in metropolitan Boston for some time, but some residents of nearby Brookline say the birds are becoming more common and increasingly aggressive in their town. Emily Spieler, a Brookline resident...

U.S. troops in Afghanistan celebrate Thanksgiving

Posted: 22 Nov 2012 05:42 AM PST

A dining facility worker, left, serves meat to soldiers and civilians for their Thanksgiving meal at the U.S.-led coalition base in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Nov. 22, 2012. The dining hall at the U.S.-led coalition base in the Afghan capital served up mac-and-cheese along with traditional Thanksgiving Day fixings. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)They may not have their families this season, but U.S. troops in Afghanistan do have a feast.

Thanksgiving inspiration: Bone marrow donation stories

Posted: 22 Nov 2012 12:00 AM PST

Thanksgiving inspiration: Bone marrow donation storiesRobin Roberts inspires others to give the gift of life.

Cash-strapped post office tests same-day delivery

Posted: 22 Nov 2012 06:17 AM PST

FILE - This Dec. 19, 2011 file photo shows people in line at the U.S. Postal Service Airport station in Los Angeles. Emboldened by rapid growth in e-commerce shipping, the cash-strapped U.S. Postal Service is moving aggressively this holiday season to start a premium service for the Internet shopper seeking the instant gratification of a store purchase: same-day package delivery. (AP Photo/Nick Ut, File)The delivery program, called Metro Post, seeks to build on the post office's double-digit growth in package volume to help offset steady declines in first-class and standard mail.

This Thanksgiving, avoid a horror story

Posted: 22 Nov 2012 07:04 AM PST

Policemen walk along Central Park West as the Hello Kitty balloon waits for the start of the 86th Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New YorkThanksgiving can be tricky; cooks are preparing a meal they don't usually cook and for large numbers of people

Egypt's Morsi grants himself far-reaching powers

Posted: 22 Nov 2012 02:13 PM PST

In this photo released by the Egyptian Presidency, President Mohammed Morsi, right, swears in his new Prosecutor General, Talaat Abdullah, left, in Cairo, Egypt, Thursday, Nov. 22, 2012. Egypt's president on Thursday issued constitutional amendments granting himself far-reaching powers and ordering the retrial of leaders of Hosni Mubarak's regime for the killing of protesters in last year's uprising. Morsi also on Thursday fired the country's top prosecutor by decreeing with immediate effect that he could only stay in office for four years and replacing him with Talaat Abdullah. Morsi fired Abdel-Maguid Mahmoud for the first time in October, but had to rescind his decision when he found that the powers of his office do not empower him to do so. (AP Photo/Egyptian PresidencyEgypt's Islamist president unilaterally decreed greater authorities for himself Thursday and effectively neutralized a judicial system that had emerged as a key opponent by declaring that the courts are barred from challenging his decisions.

Iran says blogger may have died as a result of 'shock': report

Posted: 22 Nov 2012 09:54 AM PST

DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran said on Thursday a blogger who died while in police custody may have lost his life as a result of a form of shock, the official IRNA news agency reported, adding that investigations were not yet concluded. In a case that has sparked international outrage, 35-year-old Sattar Beheshti who wrote a blog critical of the government was arrested on October 30 after receiving death threats and died some days later, having complained of being tortured. ...

Holiday shopping marathon starts as consumer sentiment shaky

Posted: 22 Nov 2012 01:36 PM PST

Customers shop at Macy's department store in New YorkNEW YORK (Reuters) - Add this to the list of things some people are thankful for: stores open on Thanksgiving Day. That's how Janet Guerrero, 24, felt when shopping on Thursday afternoon at a Wal-Mart in Westbury, Long Island, because she had nothing to wear to dinner. "It's an emergency," she said. This year, Target Corp has joined Wal-Mart and Gap Inc in being open at least part of the day, and some retailers will be open throughout the day, a trend that began to take hold in 2011. Walmart's U.S. ...

Garment salesman arrested in 3 NY merchant deaths

Posted: 22 Nov 2012 09:56 AM PST

In this 2001 photo provided by the Franconia Township Police Department in Telford, Pa, Salvatore Perrone is shown. New York City police said on Wednesday, Nov. 21, 2012 that they've arrested the 63-year-old low end clothing dealer for the killings of three New York shopkeepers since August 2012. (AP Photo/Franconia Township Police Department)A garment salesman is being held without bail on charges he systematically shot three shopkeepers to death as they worked alone in their New York City clothing stores.

What if JFK had survived his assassination?

Posted: 22 Nov 2012 07:00 AM PST

Handout photo of John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy in DallasOn November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was killed in Dallas. Almost as prevalent as theories about his assassination are theories about what would have happened to three major historical events if JFK had been alive in 1964.

Drought worsens after weeks of improvement

Posted: 21 Nov 2012 03:48 PM PST

A tree trunk rests on the bed of a dried lake, the outcome of severe drought, in Waterloo, Neb., Tuesday, Nov. 20, 2012. A new report shows that the nation's worst drought in decades is getting worse again, ending an encouraging five-week run of improving conditions. The weekly U.S. Drought Monitor report shows that 60.1 percent of the continental U.S. was in some form of drought as of Tuesday. That's up from 58.8 percent the previous week. The portion of the lower 48 states in extreme or exceptional drought — the two worst classifications — also rose, to 19.04 percent from last week's 18.3 percent. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)The worst U.S. drought in decades has deepened again after more than a month of encouraging reports of slowly improving conditions, a drought-tracking consortium said Wednesday, as scientists struggled for an explanation other than a simple lack of rain.

Trouble not over for Jesse Jackson Jr.

Posted: 22 Nov 2012 06:06 AM PST

FILE - In this March 20, 2012 file photo, Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., D-Ill. speaks in Chicago. A spokesman for House Speaker John Boehner says he has received letter of resignation from Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. Wednesday. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green, File)Jesse Jackson Jr.'s resignation from Congress might end his once-promising political career but it doesn't mark the end of troubles for the civil rights icon's son.

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