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What's open on Thanksgiving? Not much, as many stores rest -- or prepare -- ahead of Black Friday 11/27/2025 09:14am • WASHINGTON (AP) — With Thanksgiving and the formal launch of the holiday shopping season this week, Americans will again gather for Turkey Day meals before knocking off items on their Christmas gift lists. Most big U.S. retailers are closed on Thanksgiving Day. However, many will open early the f Former AP photographer's vintage images of Ireland capture a world before it disappeared 11/27/2025 08:34am • BERLIN (AP) — Rare photographs of Ireland from 1963 show a world about to disappear, a country before it took its first steps toward modernity. Black and white images captured by a young German photographer, Diether Endlicher — who later spent four decades covering the Olympics and major global Iran adds new gasoline price tier starting in December 11/27/2025 08:19am • TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran will introduce a new gasoline price tier on Dec. 6, raising the cost of fuel purchased beyond monthly quotas to 50,000 rials (about 4 cents on the Iranian exchange market) per liter, officials said, in a shift that adds a third pricing level to the country’s long-running Russia convicts and hands life sentences to 8 people over attack on a key bridge to Crimea 11/27/2025 06:00am • A court in Russia on Thursday convicted eight people on terrorism charges over an attack on a bridge linking Russia to Moscow-annexed Crimea that is a key supply route for Kremlin forces in the war with Ukraine. The court sentenced all of the defendants to life in prison. The October 2022 attack on Sydney taekwondo instructor who murdered family of three consumed by fantasies of Olympic glory 11/27/2025 03:38am • SYDNEY (AP) — A Sydney taekwondo instructor who murdered a family of three had been consumed by fantasies of Olympic glory and meetings with billionaires, a court heard Thursday. Prosecutors argued Kwang Kyung Yoo, 51, should never be released from prison after pleading guilty to murdering a 7-yea Black Friday arrives with solid momentum despite tariffs and economic uncertainty 11/27/2025 12:45am • NEW YORK (AP) — Black Friday may no longer be the retail bacchanalia of years past, when the promise of one-time bargains caused people to leave Thanksgiving tables for malls where some customers got into fistfights over toys or TVs. But the event still has enough enthusiasts to make it the bigges 2 National Guard members shot in an ambush attack just blocks from the White House 11/26/2025 11:07pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Two West Virginia National Guard members who deployed to the nation’s capital were shot Wednesday afternoon just blocks from the White House in a brazen act of violence that the mayor described as a targeted attack. FBI Director Kash Patel and Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser sai Thousands protest in Bulgaria before budget with steep tax increases gets final approval 11/26/2025 10:43pm • SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Thousands took to the streets of Sofia, Bulgaria’s capital, Wednesday to denounce steep tax increases in next year’s draft budget before its final vote in parliament. The opposition coalition We Continue the Change – Democratic Bulgaria organized the rally, which drew Utah death row inmate with dementia dies 3 months after court blocked his execution 11/26/2025 09:24pm • SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah man who was spared execution this fall after developing dementia during his 37 years on death row died Wednesday of apparent natural causes, according to the state's Department of Corrections. Ralph Leroy Menzies, 67, was set to die by firing squad in September, but th The Latest: West Virginia National Guard members shot near White House 11/26/2025 08:48pm • Two West Virginia National Guard members who deployed to the nation’s capital were shot Wednesday just blocks from the White House in a brazen act of violence. The West Virginia governor initially said the troops had died, but later walked back the statement to say the office was “receiving conf WATCH: When to travel in the DC area before Thanksgiving 11/26/2025 06:35pm • Are you traveling by car on this Thanksgiving eve? A Google tech expert told WTOP they predict the best time to drive Wednesday in the D.C. area is before 10 a.m. or after 8 p.m. The worst time to be on the road ahead of Thanksgiving is between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. WTOP’s Luke Lukert spoke with t Car passenger dies after crash with Fairfax County ambulance 11/26/2025 06:20pm • The passenger of a car has died after the vehicle they were in struck a Fairfax County, Virginia, ambulance that was on its way to an emergency. It happened Tuesday afternoon at Worldgate Drive and Alton Square in Herndon. A Fairfax County ambulance with its "full emergency equipment activate Court transcripts show Border Patrol official Greg Bovino dodging questions about use of force 11/26/2025 06:01pm • CHICAGO (AP) — Newly released transcripts of private interviews with a senior U.S. Border Patrol official and other authorities leading the immigration crackdown in the Chicago area reveal tense exchanges as leaders dodged questions about high-profile uses of force. Greg Bovino, the Border Patrol 3 men charged in shooting death of rising Latin singer DELAROSA in LA 11/26/2025 03:22pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) — Prosecutors charged three men Wednesday with murder in the death of 22-year-old Maria De La Rosa, who was shot over the weekend while sitting in a parked car in Los Angeles. De La Rosa, a Latin artist who performs under the name DELAROSA, was with two other people Saturday morni Gratitude and doubt: The effects of the shutdown linger as families prepare for Thanksgiving 11/26/2025 02:36pm • She had it figured down to the last dollar. The looming insurance payment, balanced against the hard-earned paycheck. The cost of keeping her children fed, covered mostly with government SNAP assistance. And when Shelby Williams reviewed the family budget for November, she told herself that this mon