Parades, football and feasts were on the menu Thursday as Americans celebrate the annual Thanksgiving holiday, with stormy skies and the bitterly fought election hanging over many festivities.
Despite a driving rain in New York, crowds still arrived to watch the annual parade of marching bands, mega-balloons and floats.
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