South Carolina legislators plan to formally consider impeaching Gov. Mark Sanford for the first time next week, the chairman of the committee beginning that work said Friday.

President Barack Obama won't have much time to rest up from his eight-day Asia trip.

Singer Mariah Carey turns on the Christmas lights at Westfield shopping centre in London

Taking aim at Wall Street and the U.S. central bank, an important House committee voted Thursday to assess fees on large financial firms to pay for the failure of their peers and to require a sweeping congressional audit of the secretive Federal Reserve.

In this Nov. 11, 2009 file photo, volunteer Jonathan Robertson sends a couple of boxes of donated food flying as he tries to lift an over-loaded box into a huge bin at the Cherry Street Food Bank, run by Northwest Harvest, near downtown Seattle.

Texas retail gasoline prices slipped 3 cents as travelers prepare for next week's Thanksgiving holiday.

Cranberry harvests in Wisconsin and elsewhere are meeting expectations, meaning your cranberry sauce will cost about the same this Thanksgiving as it did last year.

Thousands of starry-eyed children all over the world are writing letters to the jolly man at the North Pole this holiday season, but they'll not likely to get a response from Santa Claus or his helpers.The U.S. Postal Service is dropping a popular effort begun in 1954 in the small Alaska town of North Pole, where volunteers open and respond to ...

If you were going to commit a robbery, would you videotape it? Well, two teens thought it was a good idea and now that moment of genius has landed them behind bars.

Retailers won't talk specifics about what is going on sale or for how much this holiday season, but many door-buster specials have been leaked.

A wild turkey that's taken up residence at a New Jersey tollbooth and spends its days scooting around 18-wheelers won't have to dodge Thanksgiving traffic.

To avoid any risk of Thanksgiving dinner not being indulgent enough, we created this over-the-top turkey and gravy affectionately dubbed 'bacon bird.' The goal was an easy way to infuse a turkey with deep flavor, while also keeping it moist, and create richly savory pan drippings for gravy.

Deep-frying. Wood-smoking. Sous vide. The mind-numbing number of suggestions for mining flavor from the typically unforgiving Thanksgiving bird have proliferated in recent years.

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Office friction results when Stanley barks at Michael during a meeting, and Michael then works to adjust Stanley's attitude.

The holiday shopping season is here and the stores are already trying to lure shoppers in with their Black Friday ads.

Noel Medina makes a delivery of packages for UPS in New York. Updated at 11:57 a.m . ATLANTA -- UPS Inc., the world's largest shipping carrier, expects to deliver roughly 22 million small packages on its busiest day this year -- projected to be Dec.

It might not have been a wintry afternoon in Toronto, but that couldn't keep Santa away - or the thousands of people who have flocked to see him.

It's that time of year. People start seeing recipes for maple-glazed Brussels sprouts or ginger butternut squash and be sure to let the turkey sit half an hour before carving so the juices settle back in.