Holidays News

CLARKSVILLE -- A Tennessee pastor says his congregation will present its nativity scene in Clarksville despite objections from the American Civil Liberties Union.

The Chinese dish known as Drunken Chicken has nothing on a bird that'll be dressing up a New York City tavern's Thanksgiving fare -- it may require legal ID to eat.

From the creator of Rambo and New York Times bestselling author David Morrell, comes The Spy Who Came for Christmas.

Pilot Chesley Sullenberger jokes that his heroic handling of a disabled jetliner brought him "rock star sex" in an interview for "NBC's People of the Year" TV special.

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.