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President Franklin D. Roosevelt officially established the fourth Thursday in November as Thanksgiving in 1941. Thanksgiving ...

The word “filibuster,” which derives from a Dutch term for pirates and plunderers, somehow came to describe those who disrupt legislative business. The practice is much older — Cato the Younger ...

Thanksgiving falls on the fourth Thursday of November every year. Pass a drumstick, along with these Turkey Day facts.

Nothing wrong with asking for a little hope from our higher beings. Who doesn’t need a bit of that now and then?