VIDEO: Thistle Farms is a 2-year residential program for women who are survivors of violence. Learn how this program started 21 years ago and the positive impact it has made on women over the years .

ON THIS DAY IN AMERICAN HISTORY On November 23, 1936, the first issue of the pictorial news and general interest magazine, Life , is published. This was actually the second iteration of the magazine, which started earlier as a humor magazine that went bust during the Great Depression. Famed American publisher Henry Luce was responsible for the magazine’s resurrection after he purchased it for $92,000. The weekly magazine took an unusual approach in showing the news through pictures as opposed to telling the news via words. The magazine was an American icon and peaked at 8 million subscribers in the mid-1960s. After its decline, Life published only monthly from 1978 to 2000.

VIDEO: U.S. President Donald Trump addressed members of all military branches deployed overseas to wish them a Happy Thanksgiving and thank them for their service. But when asked when he will visit any of them in person, he did not specify when. The president paid a holiday visit to the Coast Guard station near his home in Palm Beach, Florida, Thursday.

It has been a dramatic two years since Shavkat Mirziyoyev became president of Uzbekistan, Central Asia’s most populous nation. Many doubted he could bring change, since he was a byproduct of the deeply rooted authoritarian regime ruled for 27 years by his predecessor Islam Karimov.

When some college students look at their more than 363,341 Chinese classmates on American campuses, they think they see internationals who don’t have to worry about money.

President Emmerson Mnangagwa hopes to revive Zimbabwe’s economy by ensuring that state-owned companies stop using tax dollars. One of those companies is the National Railways of Zimbabwe, which continues to take tax dollars despite several government cash injections.