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Millions of people across the Upper Midwest and Great Lakes will experience a white Thanksgiving this year. See if there will be snow where you live:
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A storm tracking from the Dakotas and Minnesota on Tuesday to Wisconsin and Michigan on Wednesday will also hit Illinois, Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York on Thanksgiving.
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Sen. Jim Justice (R-West Virginia) and his wife agreed to pay over $5 million in unpaid income taxes that the IRS said dated back to 2009.
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The senator from West Virginia and his wife struck the agreement hours after the Justice Department filed a lawsuit. The IRS said the unpaid taxes dated to 2009.
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Even as U.S. and Ukrainian negotiators announced progress on modifying the draft of the American-led peace plan to make it more acceptable to Kyiv, those same changes will probably doom it for Russia, analysts and Russian observers say.
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Putin has said the earlier U.S. plan, which Ukraine saw as too pro-Russian, should be the basis for talks and is unlikely to back down.
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Driving to your Thanksgiving plans? Yes, there’s a right way to do it. Here are our totally correct 33 rules of road trip etiquette:
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Get ready for a smooth road trip with our comprehensive guide to driving etiquette, car travel tips and more.
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A new study reveals that current lung cancer screening guidelines could be missing most cases, prompting calls for changes to detect the disease earlier. https://t.co/bjvdOgE0F8
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President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday that begins the process of designating certain chapters of the Muslim Brotherhood “as Foreign Terrorist Organizations and Specially Designated Global Terrorists.”
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The White House said the designation will help combat the group’s transnational network, which it said fuels terrorism and destabilization campaigns against U.S. interests and allies in the Middle...
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If you would like to preserve your affection for Hollywood’s most beloved leading man, save yourself now, writes The Post's theater critic Naveen Kumar. https://t.co/gzt9MeL17S
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Washington Commanders quarterback Jayden Daniels will return to practice this week but is unlikely to play against the Denver Broncos, Coach Dan Quinn said.
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The second-year quarterback, recovering from a dislocated elbow, has not yet been cleared for contact and is not expected to play against Denver on Sunday night.
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Viola Fletcher, one of the last two known survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre and a plaintiff in a symbolic lawsuit seeking reparations for the attack — one of the worst episodes of racial violence in American history — has died. She was 111.
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A century after a White mob destroyed her prosperous Black community in 1921, she became a plaintiff in a symbolic lawsuit seeking reparations.
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Screens are often used to shield child sex-abuse victims when they testify, but that can conflict with a defendant’s constitutional rights, the Supreme Court noted Monday.
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The placement of a screen to shield a child-abuse victim in court might violate the constitutional right of a defendant to face their accuser, high court says.
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If you’re not going the canned route, we have some suggestions for how to turn fresh or frozen cranberries into a fun or fancy sauce for your Thanksgiving meal.
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Sweet, tart, a little spicy or all of the above, these cranberry sauces add some spark to the Thanksgiving table.
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People who stopped taking weight-loss drugs before or during pregnancy were associated with greater gestational weight gain and had a higher risk of preterm delivery and gestational diabetes, according to a new study. https://t.co/T71X2XZnWL
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A new study sheds light on the risks and benefits of taking GLP-1 weight-loss drugs before having a baby.
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The United States and Ukraine have slimmed down but not finalized the controversial 28-point plan to end the war, officials said, after frenzied meetings in Geneva between top Ukrainian and U.S. negotiators.
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The document, which Ukraine said was too favorable to Russia, has been substantially changed, officials say.
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Months after the Trump administration booted the Associated Press from White House events because it refused to refer to the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America, the AP asked judges to permanently find that its First Amendment rights were violated. https://t.co/oSzaG3nAdG
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The Associated Press, which sued the government after being barred from covering White House events, presented its case to a circuit court panel.
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One of the National Zoo’s Asian elephants is pregnant and could give birth within the next few months, potentially bringing the zoo its first elephant calf in 25 years.
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The National Zoo says one of its elephants is pregnant, while a second elephant has lost a fetus.
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Soaring electricity prices are triggering a wave of power shutoffs, leaving more in the dark as unpaid bills pile up. Americans are paying 11 percent more for electricity than they were in January, though that number varies widely by state.
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Average electricity costs have risen 11 percent since January, more than three times the rate of inflation.
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Breaking news: The Pentagon has launched an investigation into Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Arizona) for alleged misconduct after he and other Democrats urged military members to disobey unlawful orders in a recent viral video.
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The Defense Department announced it would investigate Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Arizona) for “serious allegations of misconduct” after his participation in a viral video.
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More than 20 percent of students stayed home from school in Charlotte as President Trump’s immigration crackdown hit the city. One wore a tag that read “I’m a U.S. citizen”; another carried an American passport to elementary school.
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One in 5 students in Charlotte missed school after a recent ICE crackdown began. It’s the latest city where schools felt the impact of Trump’s deportation effort.
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The week after an anti-tariff ad pushed President Trump to halt trade talks with Canada, Prime Minister Mark Carney met with Chinese President Xi Jinping. It was the first meeting between a Canadian prime minister and Chinese president since 2017.
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Prime Minister Mark Carney has promised to double non-U.S. exports by 2035. That means making up with two of Canada’s greatest adversaries.
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The latest from Gov. @AndyBeshearKY: This slap in the face to rural America is a chance to turn it blue
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