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In the early 1880s, the Liberian government passed an act declaring the first Thursday of November as National Thanksgiving Day. The country's National Orator explains the tradition.

In East Peoria, Illinois, volunteers are organizing a Thanksgiving dinner for the families who lost their homes and those working on the cleanup and recovery.

We revisit host Robin Young's trip with her now-late uncle, Lachlan Maclachlan Field, to see the migrating snow geese at the Dead Creek Refuge in Addison, Vermont.

China has declared a sprawling air defense identification zone that covers disputed islands controlled by Japan. It also sent its lone aircraft carrier for trials in the South China Sea. The moves are being closely watched in the Philippines, a key U.S. ally that has seen its own territorial dispute with China.

Thank you for sending photos and stories of Thanksgiving 2013 celebrations around the world.

Movie theater seats are getting more deluxe. A couple chains are installing recliners in the latest effort to give movie goers more of the comforts of home.

Last night, voters in New Jersey and SeaTac, Wash., voted to increase the minimum wage. If the increases are popular with voters, why won't Congress take up the issue?

Children conceived by in vitro fertilization have the same chance of developing leukemia and brain cancers as their peers, a large study in the U.K. finds. There was a slight increase in risk for two rare cancers. But overall the findings are good news, reaffirming the safety of the fertility treatment.

You've heard of 3-D printing — now add one more dimension. Researchers are figuring out how to create structures that move and respond to their environment after they're printed.

A Metro-North Railroad official told federal regulators on Wednesday that the commuter line is behind schedule on some of its maintenance and has not…