Community members prepare a portrait of West Virginia National Guard member and U.S. Army Spc. Sarah Beckstrom for a vigil in her honor at the town hall in Webster Springs, W.Va., on Nov. 28, 2025. Beckstrom was one of two West Virginia Guardsmen attacked while guarding Washington. Jeff Swensen/Getty Images
A surfer rides through blowing snow as Lake Michigan waves crash into the St. Joseph North Pier Inner and Outer Lights, two lighthouses, in St. Joseph, Mich., on Nov. 26, 2025. Don Campbell/The Herald-Palladium via AP
Volunteers wait to serve food to local residents in need during the 26th annual Safeway Feast of Sharing at the Washington Convention Center in Washington on Nov. 26, 2025. The annual event provides Thanksgiving meals for thousands of people. Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images
First Lady Melania Trump looks on as President Donald Trump pardons “Gobble,” one of the National Thanksgiving turkeys, during the White House turkey pardon ceremony in the Rose Garden of the White House on Nov. 25, 2025. Alex Wroblewski/AFP via Getty Images
Santa Claus and elves visit the New York Stock Exchange in New York City on Nov. 26, 2025. Stocks rose more than 100 points during morning trading. Spencer Platt/Getty Images
A home after a storm swept through the Memorial Northwest subdivision, in Spring, Texas, on Nov. 24, 2025. Brett Coomer/Houston Chronicle via AP
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio (center L), flanked by White House special envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, speaks during a meeting with Ukrainian officials headed by Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine Rustem Umerov (Center R) in Hallandale Beach, Fla., on Nov. 30, 2025. Chandan Khanna / AFP via Getty Images
Police monitor the scene as activists protest Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on Canal Street in New York City on Nov. 29, 2025. Activists assembled outside a garage used by ICE and later tried to block ICE vehicles that were traveling from the garage down Canal Street to the Holland Tunnel to exit the borough of Manhattan. Stephanie Keith/Getty Images
People cook s'mores while they visit the Smithsonian National Zoo during its holiday zoo lights exhibit in Washington on Nov. 28, 2025. Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images
A hawk takes off from the balustrade along the north side of the White House roof in Washington on Nov. 24, 2025. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
Vice President JD Vance serves a Thanksgiving meal to members of the 101st Airborne Division at Fort Campbell in Fort Campbell, Tenn., on Nov. 26, 2025. Brett Carlsen/Getty Images
Cars pass through the southbound toll plaza of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco on Nov. 25, 2025. The Golden Gate Bridge has seen a record 45 drivers crash into the unmanned toll booths, the most since at least 2018. Officials cite distracted or unsafe driving as a common factor in the collisions. Although the booths have not had human toll collectors since electronic tolling began in 2013, the physical structures remain. The Golden Gate Bridge was completed in 1937 and opened to traffic that same year. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images
President Donald Trump participates in a call with U.S. service members from his Mar-a-Lago home in Florida on Thanksgiving Day in Palm Beach, Fla., on Nov. 27, 2025. Pete Marovich/Getty Images
Volunteers serve food during the “Turkey and Blessing” dinner to celebrate the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday at Lindale Church in Houston on Nov. 25, 2025. Ronaldo Schemidt/AFP via Getty Images
First Lady Melania Trump welcomes the official 2025 White House Christmas Tree at the White House on Nov. 24, 2025. The 25-foot white fir was grown at Korson's Tree Farms in Sidney Township, Mich., and will be displayed in the Blue Room of the White House during the holiday season. Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images
FBI director Kash Patel (L) speaks with Jan Jekielek, Epoch Times senior editor and host of “American Thought Leaders,” in Washington, on Nov. 26, 2025. Samira Bouaou/The Epoch Times
People shop at a mall on Black Friday in Bethesda, Md., on Nov. 28, 2025. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times
Investigators examine the scene of a mass shooting in Stockton, Calif., on Nov. 30, 2025. The shooting left four people dead at a family gathering at a banquet hall in Stockton and wounded 11 more. Ethan Swope/AP Photo
Workers assemble a Christmas tree in Union Station in Washington on Nov. 26, 2025. Heather Diehl/Getty Images
