Two strangers who went viral in 2016 after an accidental text led to a Thanksgiving dinner invite gathered yet again to share turkey and togetherness. This year, Wanda Dench and Jamal Hinton partnered with Airbnb to invite another stranger to their eighth Thanksgiving celebration. “That’s a wrap on Thanksgiving year […]

Groups of pro-Palestinian protesters who disrupted the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City on Thursday also vandalized the New York Library. After the parade, the protesters went to the library building named after the Jewish philanthropist Stephen A. Schwarzman. Images posted to social media showed the sides of […]

Just as they have for millions of years, sea turtles by the thousands made their labored crawl from the ocean to U.S. beaches to lay their eggs over the past several months. This year, record nesting was found in Florida and elsewhere despite growing concern about threats from climate change. […]

A Kansas police dog that authorities allege was strangled after chasing a suspect into a storm drain will be remembered next week in livestreamed memorial service. The service for Bane, an 8-year-old Belgian Malinois that the Sedgwick County Sheriff’s Office used in high-risk situations, is Wednesday. The Wichita man accused […]

Distraught by a romantic breakup, 16-year-old Kenny Batson vented his hurt by stomping out the windshields of cars on a for-sale lot. He landed in juvenile detention, but that was only the beginning of his trouble. Over the ensuing years, Batson stole cigarettes, booze and cars for drunken joyrides while […]

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Nicaragua’s increasingly isolated and repressive government thought it had scored a rare public relations victory last week when Miss Nicaragua Sheynnis Palacios won the Miss Universe competition. But the “legitimate joy and pride” President Daniel Ortega‘s government expressed in a statement Sunday after the win quickly […]

A father has been arrested in the Thanksgiving Day shooting death of his 10-year-old son. Omaha police said in a news release that officers rushed to a home late Thursday and found Kendrick McDonald wounded. He later died at a hospital, and several witnesses inside the home were questioned. DOZENS […]

Just about every part of the New York Jets offense has struggled this season, including one of their bigger acquisitions. Allen Lazard signed with the Jets while rumors swirled that his longtime Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers would join them. (A popular belief is that Rodgers told the Jets […]

A frantic battle to rescue 41 construction workers trapped in a tunnel in northern India has faced fresh delays due to a problem with a drilling machine, with officials warning that the next 24 hours could be critical to their chances of survival. The workers have been trapped beneath a […]

Ohio’s new constitutional protections for abortion access and other reproductive rights take effect Dec. 7, a month after voters resoundingly passed them. How and when their impacts are felt remains unclear. Existing abortion-related lawsuits are moving again through the courts now that voters have decided the issue, raising questions about […]