The Texans have become an NFL Wild Card Saturday tradition
The NFL playoffs begin today, with 14 teams left on the road to Super Bowl LIX. Wildcard Weekend begins houston texans in the face of Los Angeles Chargerswith the game kicking off at 4:30 p.m. ET from NRG Stadium in Houston. If you feel a sense of déjà vu after reading this, it's completely understandable. […]
‘Wicked’ baby pigs get Christmas pardon from Florida mayor in a Cuban twist on White House turkey tradition
MIAMI — As the stars of Friday's show in downtown Miami, piglets Glinda and Elphaba won't have to worry about gracing the dinner table at a Cuban-American family's home on Christmas Eve. The public pardon of two piglets disproves a seven-year-long White House tradition of pardoning two turkeys on Thanksgiving in South Florida, where Miami-Dade […]
College basketball fans break silence, storm the court as part of unique Christmas tradition
It's a tradition like no other. Since 1997, Taylor University Trojan Horse Created an official Christmas celebration that became known as “Silent Night.” Taylor University fans cheer during the 27th annual Silent Night game at Odle Arena on Dec. 6, 2024. (Mallory Dotson/Taylor University Athletics) a tradition meant to celebrate holiday season And at the […]
Viral Thanksgiving strangers Jamal Hinton, Wanda Dench set to continue beloved tradition for 9th year
Exactly Baste! A beloved Thanksgiving tradition that started in 2016 when an Arizona grandma accidentally invited local teens to a holiday dinner has reunited former strangers for the ninth year in a row. It turns out. Jamal Hinton, 25, announced Monday that he will host Thanksgiving dinner this year at his aunt's house in Phoenix, […]
History of the Thanksgiving turkey pardon: When the White House began the long-held holiday tradition
The White House turkey pardon ceremony is a long-standing Thanksgiving tradition that was officially established 77 years ago, and its origins go back even further decades. Since the 1800s, it has been customary for sitting presidents to receive a turkey as a celebratory gesture, and several presidents have hinted that it will appear on their […]
Pope Francis rejects tradition, opts for humble wooden casket and burial outside Vatican
Pope Francis has announced he will abolish the traditional and elaborate burial rites of his predecessors, in a decision that could modernize the Catholic Church. When the time comes, the 87-year-old pope will break with the centuries-old practice of burying popes in three interlocking coffins made of cypress, lead and oak, instead of a single […]
Biden-Trump White House meeting revives presidential tradition skipped 4 years ago
Just over a week after his landslide election victory, former President and future President Trump returned to the White House on Wednesday. President Trump will return to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue for the first time in nearly four years at the invitation of President Biden, who rejected him from the 2024 White House race. The White […]
Harris waiting to address base after loss shows ‘lacking a grasp of American democratic tradition’: analysts
Vice President Kamala Harris' continued silence after President-elect Trump's victory suggests that she is incapable of stepping up as a leader of her base, legal scholars say. Since Trump was named the winner of the 2024 presidential election early Wednesday, the Democratic candidate has yet to speak to his supporters or urge them to accept […]
Trump and Harris break bipartisan tradition by withholding top donors
Neither Vice President Harris nor former President Trump had voluntarily revealed their top campaign finance figures as of Election Day, upending a tradition of bipartisanship dating back to 2000. Campaigns are not legally required to disclose their top fundraisers, often referred to as “bundlers,” unless they are active registered federal lobbyists. But since President George […]
Now Kamala Harris refuses to say what she would have done differently than Biden — cites ‘tradition’
Please ask again later. Vice President Kamala Harris was asked for at least the fourth time on Friday what she would have done differently than President Biden, but she declined to answer. In response to a question from NBC News' Peter Alexander while campaigning in Michigan, Harris, 59, cited a vague “tradition” that vice presidents […]