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Thanksgiving dinner. (Associated Press)

BARBARA FLEISHER: Giving thanks, living thanks

By Barbara Fleisher

Thanksgiving football makes return to Fenway Park

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Lori Frollo, far right, family and friends pose after knitting quilts for Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Covenant Hospital, Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2015 in the basement of the Mercantile Bank in Merrill, Mich. Frollo had this idea after her twin grandchildren, Claire and Cole, were in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit for seven weeks and wanted to donate some quilts to the facility. (AP Photo/The Saginaw News, Andrew Whitaker)

StoryCorps turning Thanksgiving into an oral history holiday

By David Dishneau - Associated Press

Rebecca Hagelin & Kristin Carey

REBECCA HAGELIN & KRISTIN CAREY: Add God’s blessings to your collection of memories

By Rebecca Hagelin and Kristin Carey

Illustration on the American Christmas tradition by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

EMMETT TYRRELL: Christmas haters can’t kill merry holiday spirit

By R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr.

Jennifer Jenkins of D'Iberville, Miss., loads toys into her car after Black Friday shopping at Target in The Promenade shopping center in D'Iberville on Friday Nov. 28, 2014. Jenkins was buying gifts paid for by employees of the Orange Grove Urgent Care to donate to a church for distribution. (AP Photo/Sun Herald, John Fitzhugh)

PETER MORICI: Who killed Black Friday?

By Peter Morici

W.Va. Turnpike holiday traffic up compared to 2013

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Earlier holiday lifts Nov. revenue figure at Delta

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A parishioner from the Notre Dame d' Haiti Catholic Church carries a rosary as they walk the Stations of the Cross on Good Friday, Friday, April 6, 2012, in the Miami neighborhood of Little Haiti. (Associated Press) **FILE**

KEN ALLARD: A true angel among us

By Ken Allard

President Barack Obama, joined by his daughters Sasha, center, and Malia, right, speaks as he carries on the Thanksgiving tradition of saving a turkey from the dinner table with a "presidential pardon" in the Grand Foyer of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2014. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Elizabeth Lauten, GOP Hill staffer, resigns after criticizing Obama’s daughters

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

Shoppers search for Black Friday deals during Macy's Lenox store opening at 6 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 27, 2014 in Atlanta. (John Amis/AP Images for Macy's)

Black Friday: Best Buy website down temporarily as shoppers look for holiday bargains

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Shoppers line up outside a Best Buy in Dartmouth, Mass., early Friday, Nov. 28, 2014, on a rainy day while waiting for the store to open at 1 a.m. (AP Photo/The Standard-Times, Peter Pereira)

Black Friday gets a little less frenzied

By Anne D'Innocenzio and Mae Anderson - Associated Press

Black Friday: Second act of shopping frenzy gets started

By Anne D'Innocenzio - Associated Press

NY cops: beefed up patrols through the weekend

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Alyssa Riggan, who was the first in the United States to successfully receive a liver from a living donor 25 years ago, poses with her husband, Benjamin, in their home in Severn, Md., in this Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2014, file photo. (AP Photo/ Brian Witte)

Alyssa Riggan, liver transplant, recipient marks 25th anniversary

By Brian Witte - Associated Press

Balloon crewman Kevin Jackson, of Life O' The Party in Hackensack, N.J., gets out Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2014, from under some of the balloons that are part of the 15,000 Macy's balloons for the parade and will transport them to New York. (AP Photo/Northjersey.com, Mitsu Yasukawa)

Thanksgiving: Turkey, parades, shopping deals

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U.S. Army soldiers serving in the NATO-led peacekeeping mission in Kosovo pray before sharing a traditional Thanksgiving meal in the U.S. military base Camp Bondsteel, near the village of Sojevo in Kosovo on Thursday, Nov. 27, 2014. It is the 15th Thanksgiving for hundreds of U.S. solders serving in the NATO-led peacekeeping mission in Kosovo. (AP Photo/Visar Kryeziu)

Obama thanks military troops before Thanksgiving dinner at White House

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times