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If you want to eat turkey on Thanksgiving, you may want to start thawing.

Thanks to messy weather, extended darkness and an annual surge of travelers, driving can be dangerous around the holidays – but some sections of highway are especially perilous, according to a new report.

Tatiana Schlossberg, the 35-year-old granddaughter of former President John F. Kennedy, revealed on Saturday that she has been diagnosed with a rare form of terminal cancer and has a year to live. In a deeply emotional essay, published in The New Yorker on the anniversary of her grandfather’s assassination, the daughter of Caroline Kennedy and...

President Trump doubled down on his claim that a group of Democratic lawmakers with backgrounds in military or intelligence service have committed sedition by encouraging servicemembers to defy unlawful orders. In a pair of posts on his Truth Social platform late Saturday, the president said those lawmakers should be in jail, rather than defending themselves...

Once celebrated as “the world’s most deliberative body,” the U.S. Senate has sunk to new lows.  Buried in the 394-page bill to end the federal government shutdown, one provision serves as an example of what Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) has called “self-serving, self-dealing kind of stuff.”  Easy to miss in the 24/7 news cycle preoccupied...

President Trump said Jack Nicklaus, the retired professional golfer, will oversee an overhaul of the golf courses at Joint Base Andrews. Trump told reporters he was tapping Nicklaus as the architect of the project on Saturday before boarding Marine One to head to Andrews, where he later took an aerial tour of the landscape. “We’re...

Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) on Sunday said he is pessimistic about the bipartisan push for a congressional stock trading ban becoming a reality, describing the issue as the "fox guarding the henhouse." "We're not going to pass anything," Burchett said during an appearance on John Catsimatidis’s radio show, “Cats Roundtable,” on WABC 770 AM. "Or...

A new strain of the flu called subclade K could make for a particularly nasty flu season across the country, according to public health experts.  The strain already caused Japan to declare an influenza epidemic. The United Kingdom's flu season started a month earlier than usual, a trend also playing out across the Atlantic.  U.S....

Legal experts and White House critics are worried the Justice Department (DOJ) could become a piggy bank for those with grievances as President Trump and a number of his allies pursue million-dollar settlement claims. While Trump’s push for $230 million in compensation for two probes into his conduct would be the most lucrative of the...

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Justice is elusive for many impacted by the deadly realities of a multi-billion dollar industry: human trafficking. A KXAN investigation reveals while Texas is a leader in legislation to stop it, few people actually face trafficking charges. We uncover difficulties Texas prosecutors face in dismantling modern-day slavery and what it means for those seeking accountability.

State Department officials on Saturday aggressively pushed back on claims shared by some senators that President Trump's 28-point plan for peace in Ukraine originated from Russia and is not the administration's position. Earlier on Saturday, PBS NewsHour correspondent Nick Schifrin reported comments from Sens. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) and Angus King (I-Maine) where the lawmakers claimed...

Texas Governor Greg Abbott confirmed that Texas National Guard troops who were deployed to Illinois in October have been ordered to return back to the Lone Star State before Thanksgiving.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's shocking announcement that she is leaving Congress in January is still reverberating in Washington and beyond. The news, delivered Friday in a lengthy statement, appears to have caught some people off guard — including President Trump, whose feud with the Georgia Republican and the beef's rippling effects played a role in...