Thanksgiving

Paige DeSorbo is clarifying some things about her breakup with Craig Conover. The Summer House star went into timeline details on Giggly Squad, saying fans were like "'Oh my God, Paige is just the worst and, like, she blindsided someone before the holidays.'" Which...not so much! As the reality star put it, "When I announced my breakup on Giggly Squad, I thought really hard about how I was going to say it, the words I was going to use, because of this exact thing. I didn’t want to do a...

New Chicago Bears head coach Ben Johnson has seen first hand the type of costly mistakes his predecessor, Matt Eberflus, made. In the Bears’ Thanksgiving Day game against Johnson’s former team, the Detroit Lions, Eberflus faced significant criticism for his clock management during the game’s final moments. Trailing 23-20, the Bears advanced into Lions’ territory, positioning themselves for a potential game-tying field goal or a possible touchdown.

Between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Day, NBCUniversal‘s slate of holiday programming reached a total of 88 million average viewers. That total comes from a combination of Nielsen’s measurement of broadcast airings on NBC and the company’s own internal data regarding streams on Peacock. For context, NBCU reported 82 million viewers for its holiday slate in 2023, but that number was measured from Thanksgiving to Dec. 22 rather than Jan. 1. The biggest contributor to the 88 million viewers was the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, which was the No. 1 most-watched...

Photographer’s description: “Best friends out for a Thanksgiving Day morning walk through light fog and sunbeams. Image taken with Apple iPhone 12, 26 mm at f1.6.” Critique: “This is the epitome of a thankful moment on a lovely fall day. The sunbursts peeking through the trees bring a sense of warmth to the scene. Your silhouette of this person and their canine walking brings a sense of calmness to us as viewers. Thank you for sharing this with us!” Below is a gallery of previous Reader’s Lens selections. Share your...

Dear Eric: My husband and I are seniors. We no longer host Thanksgiving and other holidays, as our youngest son has taken that on willingly. • Asking Eric: HR wants disciplinary action, but there’s a reason my employee is like this • Asking Eric: Every empty container puts me closer to leaving him • Asking Eric: My husband wants to be the center of attention, not the grandpa • Asking Eric: My friend ordered me to shun her daughter’s boyfriend, and I’m not going to • Asking Eric: I’m uneasy...

Dear Eric: My husband and I are seniors. We no longer host Thanksgiving and other holidays, as our youngest son has taken that on willingly. I still prepare a variety of dishes and baked goods which we take to his home. He has a lovely, blended family now, and everyone converges to enjoy food and time together. It gets very loud, especially when the younger adults become more “animated” as they consume alcohol, which can become overwhelming, but we just roll with it. This past Thanksgiving, a good friend of...

Fort Worth police say a young adult and a teenager are facing capital murder charges following a fatal shooting during an attempted robbery on Thanksgiving. Paige Wheaton, 20, and Tai Sanders, 17, are in custody at the Tarrant County Corrections Center, police said Friday. Jail records show they were arrested Dec. 17 and Dec. 20 respectively. The Dallas Morning News has reached out to the offices of their lawyers for comment but did not immediately hear back. According to an arrest warrant affidavit, Sanders, Wheaton, 18-year-old Javon Gayton and 23-year-old...

Two suspects in a fatal Thanksgiving night shooting were part of a group who planned to rob the victim at gunpoint, Fort Worth police said. Paige Wheaton, 20, and Tai Sanders, 17, have been charged with capital murder. They are accused of killing J Tavian Lee Howard. Officers responded to reported gunshots at the Broadmoor apartments in the 2800 block of Broadmoor Drive the night of Nov. 28. They found three men with gunshot wounds, including Howard. Investigators obtained footage of the shooting from city cameras in the area, according...

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) responded to pregnancy rumors, stating that she is “not pregnant” and had just eaten “a lot of food at Thanksgiving.” “Everyone keeps asking me if I’m pregnant,” Ocasio-Cortez said in an Instagram story in response to a question asking if she was pregnant. “Actually, a member, a Republican, came to me on the floor this week and asked me if I was pregnant. I’m not pregnant guys, I had a lot of food at Thanksgiving. Okay? It happens.” Ocasio-Cortez’s response comes as people such as conservative...