U.S. presidents have been pardoning turkeys prior to Thanksgiving for decades. But when and how did the strange tradition begin?
How does a turkey earn a pardon? Every year before Thanksgiving the White House holds a national turkey presentation, where the president grants clemency to one lucky gobbler. It's an tradition with origins that are a little ... feathery.
It's customary for the president of the United States to spare the life of a turkey each year for Thanksgiving. But when and how did the strange tradition begin?
The Twitter account for NASA's heliophysics department called it a "smiling" sun. Other users saw the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man from "Ghostbusters," a lion, a blobfish or various snack foods.
The last total lunar eclipse for three years will occur on November 8, 2022 over eastern Asia and all of North America. A lunar eclipse occurs when the Sun, Earth, and Moon align so that the Moon passes into Earth’s shadow. In a total lunar eclipse, the entire Moon falls within the darkest p…
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The term "yeet," a noun defined as an expression of surprise approval or a verb meaning to throw something with force without regard for the thing, has been added to the Merrian-Webster dictionary along with a slew of other slang words. Other additions include “cringe”, “janky”, “sus”, “ball…
Up to 20,000 people from around the world pasted each other with tomatoes Wednesday as Spain's famous "Tomatina" street tomato fight returned after a two-year break.
People from around the world have pasted each other with tomatoes as Spain’s famous “Tomatina” street tomato fight took place following a two-year suspension owing to the coronavirus pandemic.
Two summer staples — hot dogs and popsicles — are coming together. For whatever reason.
Norway's Directorate of Fisheries said Freya was put down early Sunday “based on an overall assessment of the continued threat to human safety.”
San Francisco began its search for the perfect trash can in 2018 when officials decided it was time to replace the more than 3,000 public bins that have been on the streets for almost 20 years.
For a week, a young female walrus nicknamed Freya has enamoured Norwegians by basking in the sun of the Oslo fjord, making a splash in the media and bending a few boats. The 600-kilogramme marine mammal has been named after the Norse goddess of love and beauty. She has already been sighted i…
A group of climate activists who have disrupted major galleries this week to send a message to the UK government have struck again — this time at the Royal Academy of Art in London.
Three years ago, Peter Emerson saw a Christmas stage concert that married rock and pop arrangements of holiday music with visual images, only to leave out, for him, the heart of the story: Jesus Christ’s birth.
It's not quite the 12 days of Christmas compacted into a weekend, but it might feel that way with tree lightings, celebrations, concerts, plays and nights twinkling with festive lights.
Just call them the odd couple. One costs $21 million and involves converting the old Tribune-Herald home at Ninth Street and Franklin Avenue to Chip and Joanna Gaines' new Magnolia headquarters. The other, just a few steps away, has NeighborWorks Waco spending $400,000 to renovate a building…
Two plays on Waco stages this weekend with kids at their heart explore more complicated and bittersweet emotions than the typical holiday cheer.
Two San Francisco gang members who opened fire during a funeral reception for a pimp, killing one person and wounding four innocent bystanders, have been sentenced to life in federal prison. Prosecutors say Robert Manning and Jamare Coats were sentenced Wednesday for a 2019 shootout outside the Fillmore Heritage Center that killed a 25-year-old man and wounded the others, including a man who was paralyzed from the waist down as he tried to flee. Authorities say the shootout began as a confrontation between people attending the reception for Ron Newt, who was a well-known and flamboyant San Francisco pimp in the 1970s and 1980s.
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy has said the company does not have plans to stop selling the antisemitic film that gained notoriety recently after Brooklyn Nets guard Kyrie Irving tweeted out an Amazon link to it. Pressure has been mounting on Amazon to stop selling the film or add a disclaimer to the documentary and the related book that it sells on its site. Jassy addressed the company's handling of the issue at the New York Times’ DealBook Summit in New York City. He says Amazon is a retailer of content to millions of customers with different viewpoints, and it has to allow access to those viewpoints even if they're objectionable.
California's breach of personal information for hundreds of thousands of gun owners earlier this year was the result of poor training and lack of technical expertise. A report released Wednesday by the California Department of Justice found the breach was not intentional. Investigators said names, addresses and birthdays of 192,000 people who applied for concealed carry permits were downloaded 2,734 times over a roughly 12-hour period in late June. Attorney General Rob Bonta called the exposure a breach of trust and the state would adopt investigators' recommendations. California Rifle & Pistol Association President Chuck Michel says the report has gaps and unanswered questions.
A judge has declared a mistrial at the rape trial of “That ’70s Show” actor Danny Masterson. Jurors told Los Angeles Judge Charlaine Olmedo that they were hopelessly deadlocked and could not come to unanimous verdicts on any counts. The judge declared a mistrial Wednesday afternoon. Masterson is charged with the rape of three women, including a former girlfriend, between 2001 and 2003, when he was at the height of his fame as a star of the Fox sitcom “That ’70s Show.” Masterson pleaded not guilty. His attorney argued that the acts were consensual. A retrial is scheduled for March, but Masterson's lawyer says he will seek to dismiss the case before then.
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One of the two men police have charged with murder in an April 3 shooting death near Baylor University was transferred Tuesday to McLennan County Jail from Harris County.
When a false report of a shooting at Midway High came in Tuesday, a school resource officer quickly recognized the situation at the school did not match the report.
A Killeen woman pleaded guilty Tuesday to four federal charges related to the 2020 killing of Fort Hood soldier Vanessa Guillén.
A Woodway man was indicted last week on suspicion of kidnapping and also faces charges of making terroristic threats over the way police say he responded to his ex-girlfriend moving his belongings out of a home.
A 100-year-old building on the former Paul Quinn College campus is structurally sound but still needs work before it could reopen to serve the community once more, according to engineers.
Midway Independent School District’s school board is preparing to wade into a weekend full of interviews with candidates seeking to replace Superintendent George Kazanas, who has served in the role for a decade.
VIDEO, PHOTOS — Lloyd Nabors Demolition razes the press box Monday at the 61-year-old Paul Tyson Field on Lake Air Drive.
The city of Waco has settled with four of the 10 parties challenging its plan to open a new landfill near Axtell by 2025, while the rest await official hearings with the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality.