President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, and their spouses will travel to Georgia next week to attend the tribute service for former first lady Rosalynn Carter.
Many time-honored Thanksgiving traditions are publicly televised each year, which can make scheduling a large meal for the family a difficult task between events such as parades, dog shows, and football games.
Retailers across the country are upping their security game, working with local law enforcement officials, adding in-store cameras, and taking other measures ahead of Black Friday so that the unofficial start of the holiday shopping season doesn't put their businesses in the red.
A group of retired seniors is expected to receive the first wave of December's Social Security payments, worth up to $4,555 for people who retire at 70, in a little less than three weeks.
Plumbers across the country are bracing themselves for "Brown Friday," a four-day sewage fest that takes place coast to coast when people start dumping their Thanksgiving leftovers down the disposal — in both the kitchen and the bathroom — leading to massive backups.
A former national security official for former President Barack Obama was arrested by the New York City Police Department on Wednesday after a video of him using Islamophobic language against a food vendor went viral.