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The Friday after Thanksgiving is traditionally one of the biggest shopping days of the year. So-called Black Friday is viewed as the start of the holiday shopping season, a time when U.S. retailers rake in a significant portion of the year’s profits. Despite its growth, experts say online shopping hasn’t diminished Black Friday’s significance to the nation’s brick-and-mortar retailers.
ON THIS DAY IN AMERICAN HISTORY
On November 29, 1963 President Lyndon B. Johnson establishes the Warren Commission to investigate the assassination one week earlier of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas, Texas. The commission investigated the assassination for 10 months and concluded there was no conspiracy and that alleged assassin Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. Despite the findings, conspiracy theories about the assassination continue to this day.
As the 2020 campaign enters the crucial primary phase, Democratic candidates are being forced to disavow criminal justice policies they once championed, while Republican President Donald Trump, who signed the First Step Act, is touting himself as a leading reform candidate.
Moscow’s army of road sweepers keeps the Russian capital virtually spotless, but Muscovites hardly notice them. Most of the nearly 30,000 sweepers in the city appear to be Central Asian migrants who are underpaid, and the thankless drudgery offers few, if any, fringe benefits.
VIDEO: The Sedlec Ossuary, located in the Czech town of Kutna Hora, is a popular tourist destination for those who want to see the bones of more than 40,000 people, arranged in decorative patterns. Those decorations are now being dismantled so that the centuries-old bones can be cleaned.
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