Severe weather threatens already-busy Thanksgiving travel home; How severe weather could impact Christmas trees. Source

Lou Carnesecca, the longtime coach of St. John’s basketball and an icon of New York sports, has died at age 99. Source

It was Thanksgiving Eve 2020, and Melissa Lamesch was excited about the upcoming birth of her first child. Investigators would learn there was someone who was not as enthused — the expectant father, firefighter Matthew Plote. Source

Twenty to 30 million Christmas trees are sold every year, but droughts and wildfires have taken a toll. Lauren Pozen reports on how severe weather could impact the supply of live trees. Source

While Ukrainian men continue fighting in the nearly three-year-long war with Russia, women are stepping up on the homefront. Holly Williams has more. Source

Millions of Americans packed shopping malls and stores across the country on Saturday searching for deals this holiday weekend. Elise Preston has the latest spending data as inflation cools. Source

A woman who snuck onto a Delta Air Lines flight from New York City to Paris earlier this week without a boarding pass was removed from a return flight Saturday after creating a disturbance prior to takeoff. Source

President-elect Donald Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau are praising their surprise meeting Friday night in Florida amid rising tensions over Trump’s tariff threats. Weijia Jiang has more. Source

Anti-government rebels seized control of Syria’s second-largest city of Aleppo on Saturday. Their advance ignites a new phase of the country’s long-running civil war. Source

The militant group Hamas released a propaganda video Saturday of an Israeli-American hostage pleading for President-elect Donald Trump to secure his release. Meanwhile, an Israeli strike on a World Central Kitchen vehicle in Khan Yunis killed several people. Israel said the strike was targeting a man it accused of being involved in the Oct. 7 attack. Debora Patta reports. Source