Trump pardoned Bread. What about Butter? 🦃

You're working yourself to death. Trump saved a turkey from being gobbled up. And we're taking bets on an Elon Musk vs. Ford rematch. 

It's Ashley. Here's the news to know the day-before-the-day-before Thanksgiving. Not that anyone's counting.

But first, is Butter the whistleblower? President Donald Trump pardoned “Bread” at the annual turkey pardoning, but did not technically spare his poultry buddy, "Butter." (Don't worry, both will survive Thanksgiving.) As has been his, well, bread and butter, Trump used the festive photo op to troll the impeachment inquiry: "Unlike previous witnesses, you and I have actually met," he said to the turkeys. 🦃🦃

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Americans are working to death

We’re all going to die, but we seem to be getting the job done faster. The engine that powers the world’s most potent economy, is dying at a worrisome pace, a “distinctly American phenomenon’’ with no easily discernible cause or simple solution. Those are some of the conclusions from a new study that shows a decline in life expectancy in the U.S., driven by increased mortality among working-age people 25-64 – a danger sign for the economy. The report, published Tuesday, paints a bleak picture of a workforce plagued by drug overdoses, suicides and organ-system diseases while grappling with economic stresses.

After 36 years in prison for a murder they did not commit, 3 men are finally free

Three Baltimore men who spent 36 years in prison for a murder they did not commit spent their first full day of freedom Tuesday after prosecutors determined that another man had committed the crime. Alfred Chestnut, Ransom Watkins and Andrew Stewart were released from custody Monday after a judge apologized to them on behalf of the criminal justice system. The men were teens when they were arrested on Thanksgiving Day in 1983, charged with fatally shooting a 14-year-old as he walked to school. Stewart said he sat on his prison bunk and sobbed uncontrollably when he heard he would be freed. "My journey is just beginning," he said. "I have to learn how to live right now.”

What everyone’s talking about

• 10 years after Tiger Woods' crash: Untold stories of some connected to Woods' scandal.
• Papa John really likes pizza: The former face of Papa John's (John Schnatter) says he's had over 40 Papa John's pizzas in the last 30 days. 🍕😳
• "Dancing With the Stars": Here's who was crowned the new champion after a nail-biting finale. 
• Don't mess with Texas ... hogs? A woman was attacked and killed by a group of feral hogs in Texas. 
• Travel is going to be chaotic: A powerful pre-Thanksgiving winter storm will dump a foot of snow from the Rockies to the Great Lakes.

Are you betting on Elon Musk or Ford? 

If you thought the Twitter feud between Elon Musk and Ford was settled, think again. Monday night, Sundeep Madra, vice president at Ford X, tweeted at Musk, asking him to send over a Cybertruck so Ford could run its own “apples to apples” test. In a tweet replying to Madra’s challenge, Musk said, “Bring it on.” Musk released a video the night before that showed one of Tesla’s new Cybertrucks towing a Ford F-150 accelerating in the opposite direction. Since Sunday, the video demonstrating the Cybertruck’s abilities has gotten almost 13 million views, but some have questioned the fairness of the matchup. I just hope the truck revolution is televised. 

The world must slash emissions immediately, UN report says

The world's nations must make steep cuts to their greenhouse gas emissions immediately or risk missing the targets they’ve agreed on for limiting global warming, senior United Nations officials said in a report released Tuesday. The report says that even if all unconditional commitments under the Paris Agreement are enacted, global temperatures are expected to rise by 5.8 degrees by 2100, bringing even wider-ranging and more destructive climate impacts. "This would make large parts of the planet uninhabitable and cause mass extinction of species," the report says.

Real quick 

• Ellenborough Lewis, the koala whose fire rescue gained worldwide attention, has died.
• An additional 27 people have been infected with a strain of E. coli linked to romaine lettuce. 
• The Supreme Court won't hear hear an appeal for a new trial in the "Serial" case. What's next for Adnan Syed? 
• President Trump has signed a bill making animal cruelty a felony.
• Navy SEAL Eddie Gallagher is retiring, and a planned review of his status has been canceled. 

Bill Cosby expects to serve a 10-year sentence rather than say 'sorry'

In his first prison interview, Bill Cosby delivered a rambling lecture in which he claimed to be educating fellow prisoners, railed against the ruin of his TV legacy, and vowed to serve his full 10-year sentence for sex-crime convictions rather than show remorse for crimes he says he didn't commit. According to the BlackPressUSA.com story, Cosby, 82 and near blind, said he anticipates serving his entire sentence because he will never admit to something he claims he didn’t do. Cosby is serving three-to-10 years maximum in a state prison in Pennsylvania, after a jury last year convicted him of drugging and sexually assaulting a Temple University employee in 2004. 

A break from the news

• 15 top products that are already at their Black Friday prices. 
• This new retirement trend could mean you don't need to save as much.
• Is your bag of donated holiday sweaters really worth $250? Here’s how to satisfy the IRS.

This is a compilation of stories from across the USA TODAY Network.