Thanksgiving

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Maybe people have COVID fatigue, maybe people just miss seeing other people. The reasons aren’t clear. But nearly half of Americans surveyed say they feel that it’s safe enough to travel more now than they did three months ago.  In fact, 28% of Americans will hit the road on Sunday, which is the busiest departure day of the year....

Data from a flight tracking service shows thousands of flights traveled between airports in areas with high virus rates.

Americans were warned that the nation’s explosive rise in coronavirus cases this fall made traveling over the Thanksgiving holiday unsafe. But they traveled anyway, and new data suggests they might not have practiced social distancing while doing so. According to an NBC News analysis of cellphone location data provided by the analytics and marketing company Cuebiq, Americans in more than 1,900 counties...

Americans couldn’t resist the urge to gather for Thanksgiving

Neighbors in one Queens neighborhood say they’re still waiting to get the financial help promised to them after their homes were flooded with sewage one year ago. Anjali Hemphill repotrs.

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Even as the number of COVID-19 cases soar, more people in the United States traveled by plane on the day before Thanksgiving than any day since March. On Wednesday 1,070,967 people went through TSA checkpoints, according to figures from the Transportation Security Administration. In all 6.8 million people headed to airports across the country in the week leading up to...

Police on Long Island say two people were killed Thursday evening when a pair of vehicles collided near Hempstead. New York State Police say the driver of a Honda Pilot sideswiped a Toyota Corolla along Southern State Parkway and lost control, then crashed into the overpass. 23-year-old Patricia Ramkissoon, of Bay Shore, and 23-year-old Elliot Bryant, of Brooklyn, were inside…

Two officers wounded in the line of duty were able to spend most of the Thanksgiving holiday with family after they were released from the hospital on Thursday.

Two people were killed and four others rushed to nearby hospitals after two cars collided Thanksgiving night on Long Island.

Jimmy Fallon addresses how the challenges of 2020 impacted the traditional Thanksgiving celebration.

Seth, Hilary, Larry and Josh Meyers fire sick burns at some deserving subjects, like cranberries and turkey.

The yearly Hollywood tradition of the Laugh Factory providing Thanksgiving dinner for those in need almost didn’t happen this year because of the pandemic.

Al Roker and his Thanksgiving nemesis are much butter friends a year later.

A family-owned restaurant in Hoboken, New Jersey, cooked up free Thanksgiving meals for those facing hardship during the ongoing pandemic. Ray Villeda reports.

Volunteers came together to prepare meals for those in need during the holidays. Pei-Sze Cheng reports.

A California Thanksgiving they’ll always remember. After settling down in the Santa Barbara community of Montecito over the summer, Meghan Markle and Prince Harry are marking their first American Turkey Day as a family with an intimate celebration. E! News has learned the Duke and Duchess of Sussex will enjoy a quiet dinner at home with son Archie Harrison....

The Thanksgiving night game between the Ravens and Steelers has been switched to Sunday because of coronavirus issues with Baltimore.

An Iron Chef champion is cooking up gourmet Thanksgiving meals for seniors living in Yonkers public housing — some of the same projects in which he and his 11 siblings spent part of their childhood growing up