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Today is Wednesday, Nov. 27, the 332nd day of 2024. There are 34 days left in the year.
Today in history:
On Nov. 27, 2003, President George W. Bush flew to Iraq under extraordinary secrecy and security to spend Thanksgiving with U.S. troops and thank them for “defending the American people from danger.”
Also on this date:
In 1924, Macy’s first Thanksgiving Day parade — billed as a “Christmas Parade” — took place in New York.

A Broward high school debate teacher has resigned after being accused of sending inappropriate text messages to a student and forcing students to pay fees to attend his class.

Dear Eric: Two months ago, I lost the love of my life when he died unexpectedly.

Nobody thought it would end this way.
Four months ago, there was plenty of excitement and anticipation surrounding UCF heading into its second season in the Big 12. The expectation was a bounce-back year following a 6-7 campaign in 2023.
Now, the Knights find themselves in the unfathomable position of playing out a season with no chance at a postseason bowl.

By BIANCA VÁZQUEZ TONESS, Associated Press Education Writer
Last time Donald Trump was president, rumors of immigration raids terrorized the Oregon community where Gustavo Balderas was the school superintendent.
Word spread that immigration agents were going to try to enter schools. There was no truth to it, but school staff members had to find students who were avoiding school and coax them back to class.
“People just started ducking and hiding,” Balderas said.

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I have two well-behaved, medium-sized dogs. Every day, morning and evening, the three of us take a constitutional walk, with the two of them on leashes.
Over the years, I have encountered a variety of people who seem to feel it is their right to call to, play with, distract, pet or otherwise engage my dogs.
The new form of interaction, which puzzles me, involves a stranger seeing me on the sidewalk and immediately asking for the names of my dogs.

By ADAM GELLER, Associated Press
A ceasefire deal that went into effect on Wednesday could end more than a year of cross-border fighting between Israel and Lebanon’s Hezbollah militant group, raising hopes and renewing difficult questions in a region gripped by conflict.

As she prepares for Thanksgiving each year, Betsy Slagle thinks about an ancestor: Francis Cooke, who arrived in Massachusetts with fellow Pilgrims on the Mayflower in 1620.