National Football Day: It’s Thanksgiving. President Obama pardoned two turkeys named Mac and Cheese.

On the East Coast travellers drove and slogged through a mixture of rain, sleet, and snow to get to their Thanksgiving dinners. In New England thousands of people are without power. At least 420 flights have been cancelled already today. More than 1,000 air flights were cancelled yesterday, and 7,000 delayed.

No Peace: With light snow falling, protesters dwindled to just a handful in Ferguson, Mo. last night while larger gatherings continued in other cities. Demonstrators sat down and blocked an intersection in Los Angeles and about 130 of them were arrested. Thirty-five people were arrested in Oakland, Ca. where a demonstration turned to violence and vandalism.

In St. Louis the Thanksgiving parade was cancelled as a precaution and nationwide there’s been a call to boycott Black Friday shopping tomorrow.

Despite criticism of the grand jury process that led to no charges brought against Officer Darren Wilson in the shooting of Michael Brown, Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon has rejected calls for a new grand jury.

Cosby: The NY Times reports that in 2005 Bill Cosby gave an exclusive interview to the National Enquirer in exchange for the paper dropping a damaging article about Cosby and sexual assault. The paper cites documents from a federal lawsuit in which Cosby admits he granted the interview so the Enquirer would kill an interview with a former model who said Cosby drugged and raped her.

Nation: The Cleveland police have released a surveillance video of one of their officers shooting a 12-year-old boy wielding a toy gun. Two officers arrived in a patrol car answering a complaint about a man with a gun. One of the officers shot and killed Tamir Rice within two seconds of the cruiser pulling up just a few feet from the boy. Rice was clearly waving a realistic-looking pistol, but there’s been no explanation for why the officer fired so immediately.

>Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg had a heart procedure yesterday after experiencing discomfort while exercising. She had a stent placed in her right coronary artery and is expected to be discharged from the hospital within 24 hours. At 81, she’s the oldest Justice.

World: The target of an American Special Ops raid in Yemen Tuesday was an American journalist. Navy Seals killed seven members of al Qaeda and freed eight foreign hostages, but the unnamed American had been moved.

Smash and Grab: A well-choreographed robbery emptied a Chicago store of expensive jeans and designer clothing. At about 4:15 yesterday morning the thieves crashed a van through the front of the store on West Madison Street and then swarmed the store. At least 20 thieves were seen on surveillance video clearing the shelves and even stripping the clothes off the mannequins.

Google This: The European Union yesterday issued guidelines asking Google to extend the EU’s Internet “right to be forgotten” edict to the rest of the world. The EU’s regulations allow people to have unwanted or unflattering material removed from Google search results, but only in Europe. Their call to extend the rule worldwide is strictly voluntary, so forget that.

Got Milk?: The Coca Cola company, which has been selling “the real thing” for more than a hundred years is getting into the milk business. Coke says its “Fairlife” milk will be more nutritious and contain less sugar then regular milk. It will also be twice the price. Coca-Cola’s North American chief, Sandy Douglas, said, “It’s basically the premiumization of milk,” which just makes it sound so appetizing.

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