Television retailer QVC has made aggressive plans to keep shoppers watching instead of mall-hopping on Black Friday, an event it has traditionally ignored.

Thanksgiving Day traditions today bear only a passing resemblance to that original three-day harvest celebration at Plymouth Plantation in 1621.

The scene around him in a vast industrial space looks like Santa's Workshop, but John Piper, the man behind Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade, compares organizing the annual extravaganza to planning a huge holiday meal - with a lot of trimmings.

Salvation Army officials are expecting a record turnout when they distribute Thanksgiving dinner in Wheeling Sunday.

Santa Claus is fine at a North Carolina Christmas parade. But Mrs. Claus has to stay away.

In a show of unity, Senate Democrats sealed a 60-vote majority needed to advance health care legislation Saturday ahead of an evening showdown with Republicans eager to doom the bill and inflict a punishing defeat on President Barack Obama.

On New Year's Eve each year, thousands line up at fish counters across Hawaii to buy blocks of raw tuna, hoping that eating it will bring good luck and prosperity in the new year.

ATHENS -- It's five days until Thanksgiving, and you'd be hard-pressed to find anyone more grateful than the Weiks family.

At holiday time, trains whiz through Richard Kloewer's yard, past the lighted evergreen trees, dolls, teddy bears, even a miniature Harley Davidson display.

When the U.S. holiday shopping season kicks off on the day after Thanksgiving, retailers can expect to see millions of less frightened but even more bargain hungry customers cross their thresholds.

Gov. Bob Riley has pardoned a Thanksgiving turkey as part of an annual Alabama tradition that dates back to 1949.

Police in the Kankakee County town of Herscher say they are looking for someone who might be described as a home-invading Christmas elf.

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 ...