Around 3 p.m. I will sit at the head of my dining room table (best angle to watch Dallas beat Oakland, but by fewer than 9.5 points - I may have a financial interest in the game) and enjoy my ...

President Barack Obama officially pardoned a pair of turkeys Wednesday, in keeping with a pardoning tradition started in 1963 by John F. Kennedy. For the second year in a row, the public was allowed ...

The votes have been counted and Popcorn the turkey is a free bird. In his annual turkey pardon, President Obama stood outside the White House, accompanied by his daughters, Sasha and Malia, and told a ...

The Presidency, Barack Obama said at the White House Wednesday, has “many awesome and solemn responsibilities.” “This is not one of them,” he added. The tradition of the President pardoning a turkey ...

Congratulations, the President will not be having you for dinner. Joined by daughters Sasha and Malia on the White House’s North Portico, President Obama on Wednesday granted two turkeys a ...

President Barack Obama crowned the National Thanksgiving Turkey on Wednesday and formally pardoned both Popcorn and runner-up “Caramel” at the White House, ensuring that the two gobblers will escape ...

There is at least one functional White House–run Web site: the online home of the Gobbler Games, an interactive survey that asks participants to choose which turkey—Popcorn or Caramel—will be honored ...

The American public has spoken and Popcorn has captured the title as the country's top turkey. President Barack Obama was joined by daughters Sasha and Malia in announcing the winner of the National ...

President Barack Obama might frown when he hears that Popcorn, last year’s pardoned Thanksgiving turkey, is already dead. But understudy Caramel is still kicking. And the reason? Well, that would make ...

President Obama gave Popcorn — the 38-pound Minnesota bird named this year’s national Thanksgiving turkey — a “full reprieve from cranberry sauce and stuffing” at the annual presidential turkey pardon ...