It’s been almost a month since Superstorm Sandy slammed into the Northeast, and for many people, it means the first Thanksgiving outside of their destroyed homes or without the friends or family they usually visit. In New York City, Thanksgiving has been mass-produced in shelters, churches and community centers where thousands upon thousands of storm […]
Enlarge image Israeli police officers examine a blown up bus at the site of a bombing in Tel Aviv on Wednesday. Oded Balilty/AP Israeli police officers examine a blown up bus at the site of a bombing in Tel Aviv on Wednesday. Oded Balilty/AP Israel has arrested several people, including an Arab Israeli, in connection
At least two people are dead and dozens injured in a 100-vehicle pileup on Interstate 10 in southeast Texas that’s being blamed on early morning fog on Thanksgiving Day. KFDM TV reports that the dead included a man and a woman in a Chevy Suburban that was crushed by a tractor trailer. State troopers told
Move Thanksgiving to Friday? That’s what F.B. Haviland asked President Hoover in 1929. Snippet of a letter F.B. Haviland sent to President Hoover in 1929 asking him to move Thanksgiving to Friday. National Archives Didn’t happen. But while we’re on the subject, ever wonder why we carve our gobblers on the fourth Thursday of November?
Enlarge image Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-IL) in 2009. Scott Olson/Getty Images Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-IL) in 2009. Scott Olson/Getty Images Update at 3:02 p.m. ET. Jackson Resigns: After much controversy over an extended medical leave and facing an ethics investigation, Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., a Democrat from Chicago, resigned from Congress today. In
Christophe Ena/AP The story of Lance Armstrong’s alleged doping is, in part, the story of an astonishing business enterprise — an enterprise that drove what the U.S. anti-doping agency called “the most sophisticated, professionalized and successful doping program” cycling has ever seen. The story of that enterprise starts in 1998, when the Festina cycling team
Enlarge image Puppeteer Kevin Clash and Elmo. Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images Puppeteer Kevin Clash and Elmo. Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images Kevin Clash, the voice and puppeteer who for 28 years has made Sesame Street’s Elmo come alive for kids, has resigned because “the controversy surrounding [his] personal life has become a distraction,” Sesame Workshop said
Former New Hampshire Sen. Warren Rudman has died. His name will always be linked to a 1980s-era effort to tame the federal budget deficit and to a pre-Sept. 11 warning about the nation’s security. And he will be remembered as a “moderate” Republican who could work across party lines. According to the New Hampshire Union
Enlarge Thorsten Wiehle/Berlin Forestry Commission Some 3,000 wild boars are estimated to roam Germany’s capital. This 2008 picture provided by the Berlin Forestry Commission shows a sow and her offspring that decided to make their home outside an apartment building. Recently, a wild boar attacked and injured four people in a Berlin neighborhood. Thorsten Wiehle/Berlin
The Palestinian civilian death toll mounted Monday as Israeli aircraft struck densely populated areas in the Gaza Strip in a campaign to quell militant rocket fire menacing nearly half of Israel’s population. An overnight airstrike on two houses belonging to an extended clan in Gaza City killed two children and two adults, and injured 42
Enlarge image A man covers his face as he passes smoke and fire after Israeli air strikes in Gaza City earlier today. Mohammed Abed /AFP/Getty Images A man covers his face as he passes smoke and fire after Israeli air strikes in Gaza City earlier today. Mohammed Abed /AFP/Getty Images The deadly back-and-forth between Israel
Enlarge image Some Republicans are betting that President Obama won’t push for a Susan Rice nomination if it could jeopardize negotiations with the GOP on things like the budget, or immigration. Andrew Burton/Getty Images Some Republicans are betting that President Obama won’t push for a Susan Rice nomination if it could jeopardize negotiations with the