Thanksgiving

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Even though a new strain of COVID-19 is not proven to be more deadly, it can spread more quickly and has the potential to overwhelm the health care system more rapidly. Infectious disease expert Dr. Dena Grayson joined LX News with a grim warning as we enter a New Year with historic infection rates and a virus mutation she believes...

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....

Siobhan McGirl and her Big Brothers Big Sisters little sister, Jahyleeanne, show you how to make a meatless turkey fruit platter you will want to gobble up!

A nursing home in New Hampshire is dealing with a coronavirus outbreak that’s reached more than 90% of its elderly residents and is now turning deadly. Martha Ilsley, the acting administrator at Hanover Terrace Health and Rehab in Hanover, said they’ve done everything possible to keep COVID at bay, but the virus got in late last month, and now...

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

This week, Bradley International Airport saw an increase in passengers for the first time since March. One reason for the uptick in traffic is due to the Thanksgiving holiday.

You might not have found huge crowds at the stores this Black Friday. Those folks may have been waiting in lines, just for a COVID-19 test instead. The lines remained long in Connecticut the day after Thanksgiving. The state said it currently has more than 240 testing sites. Since the pandemic began, more than three million COVID tests have been…

After months of slumping sales and businesses toppling into bankruptcy, Black Friday is offering a small beacon of hope

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...

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.

“We didn’t know if we’d be able to do this,” said Jeff Walsh, base commander of the United States Submarines Veterans Club. He said it wasn’t until last Tuesday that they got the green light from the Ledge Light Health District to continue the club’s Thanksgiving tradition. Walsh was joined by dozens of volunteers, scurrying around the Groton clubhouse...

Navy veterans volunteer to help give new recruits in Groton a taste of home on Thanksgiving.

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....

Thanksgiving is about being grateful for what we have while also lending a helping hand to those in need and for many in the community, nothing was going to stop that mission. “For us, it was not a conversation of whether or not we were going to have it, it was how are we going to make it happen,” said…