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There is food insecurity among members of the U.S. military. The military is increasing housing allowances and temporary lodging reimbursements to military families.

Thanksgiving myth tells us that the Pilgrims survived because friendly Native Americans helped them adapt their farming practices. Since then, it's been Native people who've been forced to adapt.

A former inmate started Down North Pizza to employ formerly incarcerated people. Philadelphia has had one of the highest incarceration rates in the nation.

Former Minneapolis police officers Tou Thao, Thomas Lane and J. Alexander Kueng are charged with failing to provide medical care to George Floyd as Derek Chauvin knelt on his neck.

There were riots in Lebanon on Sunday over cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad published in Denmark this past fall. The Danish consulate in Beirut was torched and property in Christian areas was attacked.

The deadly attacks at two Christchurch mosques brought people together rather than sowing discord, one of the survivors says.

The House votes in favor of the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA). Thursday's early morning vote is a victory for the Bush administration. House Republicans had trouble keeping rank-and-file members from defecting as many Democrats opposed the accord.

Floridians return to their homes on the northern Gulf Coast to survey the wreckage of Hurricane Dennis. Five people were killed in Florida and Georgia. The storm caused more than $2 billion in insured damage. Forecasters say Dennis, which is now a tropical depression, can still generate flooding and tornadoes.

The Supreme Court rules that prison inmates have a constitutional right to not be put in Supermax prisons if it's not necessary. Supermax is an extremely restricted environment, with virtually no human contact. The High Court has approved Ohio's program of reviews for deciding whether a given inmate's crime is serious enough to merit such restrictive confinement.

In Mississippi, electricity and phone service have been restored to most of the people affected by Hurricane Katrina. Those still without service are either in rural areas, or in places so devastated by the storm, there's not much left to connect to.