THANKSGIVING

COVID-19 is adding an extra helping of anxiety to what is already a stressful time of year. Dr. Shana Lewis joined LX News to offer tips for people feeling uneasy about their Thanksgiving holiday plans.

Maybe people have COVID fatigue, maybe people just miss seeing other people. The reasons aren’t clear. But nearly half of Americans surveyed say they feel that it’s safe enough to travel more now than they did three months ago.  In fact, 28% of Americans will hit the road on Sunday, which is the busiest departure day of the year....

Data from a flight tracking service shows thousands of flights traveled between airports in areas with high virus rates.

Americans were warned that the nation’s explosive rise in coronavirus cases this fall made traveling over the Thanksgiving holiday unsafe. But they traveled anyway, and new data suggests they might not have practiced social distancing while doing so. According to an NBC News analysis of cellphone location data provided by the analytics and marketing company Cuebiq, Americans in more than 1,900 counties...

Americans couldn’t resist the urge to gather for Thanksgiving

After months of slumping sales and businesses toppling into bankruptcy, Black Friday is offering a small beacon of hope

Even as the number of COVID-19 cases soar, more people in the United States traveled by plane on the day before Thanksgiving than any day since March. On Wednesday 1,070,967 people went through TSA checkpoints, according to figures from the Transportation Security Administration. In all 6.8 million people headed to airports across the country in the week leading up to...

Seth, Hilary, Larry and Josh Meyers fire sick burns at some deserving subjects, like cranberries and turkey.

Jimmy Fallon addresses how the challenges of 2020 impacted the traditional Thanksgiving celebration.

The yearly Hollywood tradition of the Laugh Factory providing Thanksgiving dinner for those in need almost didn’t happen this year because of the pandemic.

Al Roker and his Thanksgiving nemesis are much butter friends a year later.

Like many in 2020, a Virginia family hasn’t had the year they wanted, but this Thanksgiving, they’ve got everything they need. When Jim Lloyd was in the hospital battling acute myeloid leukemia, his family couldn’t be by his side because of the pandemic. In May, he felt well enough to leave eighth-floor room at Virginia Hospital Center and get...

A Virginia family hasn’t had the year they wanted, but this Thanksgiving, they’ve got everything they need. Northern Virginia Bureau Reporter Drew Wilder has their story.

Doctors and nurses are used to working on Thanksgiving, but this year is different. Almost 30 COVID-19 patients are isolated at MedStar Montgomery Medical Center in Olney, Maryland, where the doctors and nurses caring for them are their surrogate family members this Thanksgiving. “I think it’s something that comes naturally,” Emergency Department Medical Director Dr. Katie Byrd said. “Definitely more…

Doctors and nurses are used to working on Thanksgiving, but this year is different. Cory Smith reports.

A Maryland man is grateful to be alive this Thanksgiving after a long battle with the coronavirus. Patrick Bright and his wife, Pamela, of Clinton both got COVID-19 in late March. His case was so severe he was in the hospital for almost two months. “Each day I had to suffer myself with the COVID and waking up wondering if…

A Maryland man is grateful to be alive this Thanksgiving after a long battle with the coronavirus. Aimee Cho reports.

Food & Friends in Northeast D.C. worked to make sure families in need got Thanksgiving dinners. News4’s Juliana Valencia reports on how they delivered 3,500 meals amid the pandemic.

For the past 50 years the Turkey Bowl has decided the D.C. public high school football champion. But as News4’s Mark Segraves reports, traditions have changed this year.

It happens every year. Thanksgiving comes and goes, and you’re left with more food than you know what to do with. But this year, News4’s Megan McGrath has some creative recipes to help you give new life to your leftovers.