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Obama Spares Turkeys in White House Thanksgiving Tradition

President Barack Obama has "pardoned" one of two Thanksgiving turkeys, sparing it from the dinner table and granting it the chance to live out its days on a northern Virginia turkey farm. In a White House appearance Wednesday that was also attended by daughters Sasha and Malia, Obama granted a pardon to a turkey named Cheese, a rotund white bird with a rosy-colored head and neck. The move came on the eve of the annual Thanksgiving holiday. The White House ran an online...

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