CNN will offer coverage of Thanksgiving parades across the nation, and offer streaming subscribers cooking demos from celebrity chefs

This explainer traces Thanksgiving’s origins from colonial harvest observances to Lincoln’s 1863 proclamation and Congress’s 1941 law fixing the holiday on the fourth Thursday of November.

Wednesday, order pizza. If you must cook, no heat, minimal effort. Hetty’s roasted pepper, white bean and mozzarella salad. Yasmin Fahr’s chickpea spinach salad with curry yogurt dressing. Sue Li’s white bean salad with fennel and celery. Then it’s the big day.

With food panties seeing record demand for assistance, here is a list of free Thanksgiving meals available near Des Moines.

There are both types of cactuses, and they look almost identical. There are differences, however. As the name implies, the main difference is when the cactus blooms. A Thanksgiving cactus blooms in November and a Christmas cactus blooms in December.

"When we practice gratitude, there's different neurotransmitters that are released in our brains, so the happy hormones or the happy neurotransmitters, like dopamine and serotonin. That can really shift our networks in our brain to see the world through more of a positive tone," she said.

During Dancing With the Stars’ Prince-themed episode Nov. 18, Whitney Leavitt and Mark Ballas were voted off, leaving Alix Earle, Robert Irwin and more to compete in the upcoming season 34 finale. Consider this your cheat sheet for human interaction.

Bay Area travelers should brace themselves for sprawling traffic next week as drivers brave the roads to make it in time for Thanksgiving dinner. According to AAA’s annual holiday travel report based on data from INRIX,

Today’s forecast: Dry weather continues today. Our next period of precipitation is a light rain shower pattern tomorrow, but not for southern Michigan. Only northern Lower Michigan and the Upper Peninsula will get into a few showers. We continue to see a consistent idea on the weather just before Thanksgiving.

It turns out she is traveling to Tacoma for the Thanksgiving holiday to visit family, but they don't want to cook. The restaurant she thought she was calling won't be open that day, but I told her there are definitely some options.

Thursday on Good Day Philadelphia, the Good Day crew determined that Thanksgiving doesn't get enough credit so Mike wrote the lyrics for a Thanksgiving song.