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The creators of The Bitten Word food blog publish an annual survey of Thanksgiving recipes suggested by food magazines. This year, there were lots of ancient grains and citrus-flavored desserts.

Obama administration officials are warning that a recent plan adopted by the House Judiciary Committee threatens to make the justice system worse not better.

Annual rankings by the World Economic Forum suggest that women still lag men in many measures of economic participation and political power. The U.S. has fallen in the rankings since last year.

Nearly a third of people said they'd questioned or refused a doctor's recommendation of painkillers, according to findings from the latest NPR-Thomson Reuters Health Poll. Fear of addiction and worries about side effects were common concerns.

The government is expected to shut down at least 3,000 post offices — and one hobbyist who visits post offices around the country has taken notice. Evan Kalish, who blogs about post offices, has visited 2,745 of them, especially those in danger of closing. He says if he can't save them, he at least wants to memorialize them.

The former New Jersey governor's investment firm has filed for bankruptcy protection and is being investigated. He reportedly pressed regulators not to try to rein in its risky investment strategies.

His confirmation that he pays at a much lower rate than many much less well-off Americans, is likely to reignite a debate over whether the wealthy should be asked to pay a greater share of federal taxes.

In the minds of sports writers polled by the AP, Alabama's 21-0 win over LSU eclipsed its previous loss.

Teachers and school districts say they agree better teacher evaluations are needed, but they can't agree on the details. Disputes in Hawaii and New York could lead to revocation of lucrative federal grants and also force the Department of Education to take aggressive action.

The E. coli outbreak that sickened more than 4,300 people in May and June had epidemiologists scrambling to find the contaminated vegetables that caused it. What made it difficult, they say in a new paper, is that people had trouble remembering what exactly was in the salads they ate. In this case, the culprit turned out to be fenugreek seeds, but it was a long road to get there.