These are some of the best places to shop for Black Friday

This year, Black Friday takes place on Nov. 28, and it promises big discounts on everything from toys to computers. You’ll find impressive deals at nearly every retailer under the sea, but some offer better sales than others.

Check out some retailers we think you should definitely check out on Black Friday — and some early deals you can take advantage of right now.

Best early Amazon Black Friday deals

Amazon is known for its impressive sales events, including Prime Day and Prime Big Deal Days, but this mega-popular retailer seems to take things up a notch for Black Friday. You can score big savings on kitchen appliances, toys and more.

Ninja CRISPi Air Fryer 11% OFF

This unique air fryer features a separate heating element and offers two glass food containers of different sizes, allowing you to prepare both small and large batches. The small container is ideal for individual servings, while the large container can accommodate a 4-pound chicken and vegetables. The containers have leakproof lids, too, which makes storing leftovers or taking food on the go much easier.

REDTIGER Dashcam 13% OFF

Make sure you’re protected on the road with this 4K+ 1080p dual dashcam. It features an extra-wide front angle of 170 degrees and a rear wide angle of 140 degrees, reducing blind spots. It also boasts outstanding night vision, delivering excellent image quality even in low-light conditions. The connected app also lets you manage the dashcam, play back videos and more.

LEVOIT Core300-P Air Purifier 15% OFF

Covering areas up to 1073 square feet, this powerful air purifier removes up to 99.97% of airborne particles between 0.1 and 0.3 microns, including dust, pollen and dander. It weighs under 8 pounds, so it’s easy to move around the house as needed. Best of all, it operates at just 24 decibels in sleep mode, allowing you to sleep peacefully through the night.

BISSELL Little Green Mini Portable Carpet and Upholstery Cleaner 11% OFF

You won’t need to worry about wine spills or pet accidents again with this portable carpet and upholstery cleaner. It can spray, scrub and suction messes to remove stains and includes a self-cleaning tool for rinsing the hose. Its compact design makes it very easy to store, too.

Best early Walmart Black Friday deals

Walmart has made a name for itself with its year-round low prices, but it saves some of its biggest discounts for Black Friday. Whether you’re looking for vacuums and other household items or holiday gifts like toys, you’ll find some exciting deals.

Annexfun 100-Piece Magnetic Building Cube Sets 60% OFF

This fun set of magnetic blocks makes an excellent gift for kids aged 3 to 10. It contains 100 colorful cubes, so children can build creative structures. The magnets are also super strong, ensuring your children’s builds stay standing until they decide to disassemble.

Lefant M2 Pro Robot Vacuum and Mop 63% OFF

Hand off the tedious chore of keeping your floors spotless to this convenient robot vacuum and mop. Its long-lasting power offers up to 200 minutes of cleaning time, while its self-emptying base can hold over a month’s worth of dirt and debris. It also features 360-degree LiDAR navigation to learn your home’s layout for more efficient cleaning.

Keurig K-Iced Essentials Plus 56% OFF

This single-serve coffee machine allows you to make both hot and iced coffee perfectly every time. It can brew 6-, 8- or 10-ounce cups of hot coffee or a 12-ounce cup of iced coffee. The removable drip tray also lets you fill tumblers and travel mugs up to 7 inches tall.

Best early Target Black Friday deals

Target is another popular big-box retailer that runs appealing sales year-round. However, its Black Friday event means even deeper discounts on sought-after brands like Dyson, Beats and Cuisinart.

Dyson V9 Motorbar Vacuum 55% OFF

This cordless vacuum is both lightweight and easy to use, yet it remains remarkably powerful. Its main Motorbar cleaner head can pull dirt, hair and more from all floor types and features a detangling design to prevent hair from getting stuck. It can clean for up to 40 minutes without losing suction, and the display counts down the remaining battery life to let you know when it’s time to charge.

Beats Solo 4 Bluetooth Wireless On-Ear Headphones 35% OFF

These on-ear wireless headphones feature a flexible headband and adjustable, cushioned ear cups, making them comfortable for all-day wear. Whether you’re listening to music, a podcast or an audiobook, the personalized spatial audio tracks your head movement to ensure the best sound quality. Its battery also provides up to 50 hours of listening time on a single charge, too.

Cuisinart Air Fryer Toaster Oven 7-in-1 48% OFF

This versatile countertop oven can air fry, bake, convection-bake, broil, convection-broil, toast and warm. It also provides 0.6 cubic feet of cooking space, so you can fit a 4-pound chicken, a 12-inch pizza, six slices of bread or 3 pounds of french fries. The nonstick interior walls make cleanup a breeze.

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By REBECCA BOONE

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A federal judge has ordered the release of 16 people detained by immigration officials during an FBI-led raid at a rural Idaho racetrack last month.

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U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill ruled Wednesday that keeping the migrants jailed without bond violated their due process rights, and he ordered that they be released while they wait for their immigration cases to be resolved. Many of them have lived in the U.S. for decades and lacked any criminal history, Winmill noted. Some are married to U.S. citizens or have children who are U.S. citizens, according to court documents.

In an e-mailed statement to The Associated Press, the Department of Homeland Security said Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents lawfully arrested the detainees during the raid, and added that “an activist judge is ordering lawbreakers to roam free.”

“The Trump administration is committed to restoring the rule of law and common sense to our immigration system, and will continue to fight for the arrest, detention, and removal of aliens who have no right to be in this country,” the department said.

The Oct. 19 raid at the privately operated outdoor track in Wilder was led by the FBI as part of an investigation into suspected illegal gambling. More than 200 officers from at least 14 agencies, including U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol, participated in the raid, detaining around 400 people for hours, including many U.S. citizens.

Witnesses described aggressive tactics, including zip-tying children or separating young kids from their parents for an hour or more. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, whose agency oversees Border Patrol and ICE, denied that children were zip-tied. FBI spokesperson Sandra Barker initially said no restraints or rubber bullets were used on children but later amended that statement, replacing “children” with “young children.”

The raid resulted in only a handful of gambling-related arrests, while 105 people were arrested on suspicion of immigration violations. Many of them signed voluntary agreements to leave the country before they were able to talk to immigration lawyers, said Nikki Ramirez-Smith, an immigration attorney whose firm is representing 15 of the people released this week.

Just 18 people detained in the raid have sought their release in the federal courts in Idaho, according to online court records. One of them had that request initially dismissed after a judge found that they did not include enough detail in their court filing, but the judge also gave them 30 days to try again. Another person is now pursuing release through a different federal court after they were transferred to a detention facility in a different state.

The federal judge in Idaho said that nearly all of his colleagues who have faced similar requests from immigration detainees have come to the same conclusion: That non-citizens who are detained while already present in the United States are entitled to due process rights.

“Treating the detention of noncitizens stopped at or near the border differently from noncitizens who reside within the country is not an anomaly. Instead, it reflects the long-recognized distinction in our immigration laws and the Constitution that due process protections apply to noncitizens residing within the country but not those stopped at or near the border,” Winmill wrote.

Ramirez-Smith said Winmill’s release orders do “a great job of putting into perspective what the issues are.”

“They’ll just stay home with their families, and we’ll file the applications for relief in immigration court, and they’ll get a court hearing. Those trial dates will probably be years out,” she said, because of a hefty backlog of more than 3 million cases in immigration courts.

Still, President Donald Trump has taken steps to reduce the backlog, instructing judges during his first term to deny entire categories of asylum claims such as for victims of gang or domestic violence.

During his current term, the Trump administration has fired dozens of immigration judges, and authorized about 600 military lawyers to work as temporary immigration judges. The administration has also frequently turned what would normally be routine immigration hearings into deportation traps, with government lawyers quickly dismissing asylum cases so the migrants who sought asylum can be immediately arrested in the courthouse halls.

By GARY D. ROBERTSON

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Federal judges on Thursday upheld several U.S. House districts that North Carolina Republicans drew in 2023 that helped the GOP gain additional seats the following year. They rejected accusations the lines unlawfully fractured and packed Black voters to weaken their voting power.

The order by three judges — all of whom were nominated to the bench by GOP presidents — didn’t rule on changes made last month to the 1st Congressional District that are designed to unseat Democratic Rep. Don Davis in 2026.

That alteration, completed at the urging of President Donald Trump as part of an ongoing national mid-decade redistricting fray, is still being considered by the panel. The judges heard arguments in Winston-Salem but didn’t immediately rule on whether they would block now the use of the 1st District and the adjoining 3rd District for next year’s election while more legal arguments are made. Candidate filing for the 2026 elections is set to begin Dec. 1.

Many allegations made by the state NAACP, Common Cause and voters cover both 2023 and 2025 changes, in particular claims of voter dilution and racial discrimination violating the U.S. Constitution and Voting Rights Act.

The 2023 map turned a 7-7 North Carolina delegation into one in which Republicans won 10 of the 14 seats in 2024. Three Democrats chose not to seek reelection, saying it was essentially impossible to get reelected under the recast lines.

Thursday’s ruling by 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Allison Rushing and District Judges Thomas Schroeder and Richard Myers rejected claims that GOP legislators drew lines in 2023 so skewed for Republicans that many Black voters could not elect their preferred candidates.

“We conclude that the General Assembly did not violate the Constitution or the VRA in its 2023 redistricting,” they wrote in a 181-page order.

The judges convened a trial several months ago hearing testimony for a pair of lawsuits that challenged portions of maps redrawn in 2023. Thursday’s decision focused on five congressional districts: three in the Greensboro region and two in and around Charlotte, as well as three state Senate districts. The judges also upheld the Senate districts.

The plaintiffs argued Republicans split and weakened the Greensboro region’s concentrated Black voting population within multiple U.S. House districts. Then-Rep. Kathy Manning, a Greensboro Democrat, decided not to run again last year because her district shifted to the right. They also cited what they called packing Black voting-age residents into a Charlotte-area congressional district that helped Republican Tim Moore win an adjoining district.

Attorneys for Republican leaders argued that lawfully partisan — and not racial — considerations helped inform decision-making on the 2023 map. They pointed out that no information on the racial makeup of regions were used in drawing the lines. A 2019 U.S. Supreme Court decision essentially neutered legal claims of illegal partisan gerrymandering going forward.

The judges’ order favoring the GOP lawmakers said “the circumstances surrounding the plans’ enactment and the resulting district configurations and composition are consistent with the General Assembly’s non-racial motivations, which included traditional districting criteria, North Carolina law, and partisan performance.”

The ruling can be appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court. Spokespeople for Republican legislative attorneys didn’t immediately respond late Thursday to requests for comment. A lawyers group representing the state NAACP and others said it was disappointed with the ruling.

Still at issue are the changes made to the 1st and 3rd Districts that GOP legislators said are designed to create an 11-3 seat majority in 2026. Davis continues a line of Black representatives elected from the 1st District going back more than 30 years. But he won his second term by less than 2 percentage points.

North Carolina is among several states where Trump has pushed for mid-decade map changes ahead of the 2026 elections. This week, a federal court blocked Texas from using a GOP-engineered map.

By VALERIE GONZALEZ

McALLEN, Texas (AP) — A federal judge issued an order Wednesday requiring the Trump administration to again consider granting protection from deportation to certain vulnerable young immigrants.

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U.S. District Judge Eric Komitee ordered U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to again consider granting deportation protection under a 2022 program the agency rescinded in June. The decision will allow the program to continue while the lawsuit brought by plaintiffs in July continues.

Children and youth affected are those who have been abused, neglected, or abandoned by a parent and given Special Immigrant Juvenile status through a state court and the federal government.

SIJS, as it’s known, was created through congressional bipartisan support in 1990, and though it does not it grant legal status, it lets qualifying young people apply for a visa to become legal permanent residents and obtain a work permit. It can take years for a visa to become available due to annual caps. Under the Biden administration, USCIS could consider shielding designees from deportation while waiting for a visa.

Without the deferred action program, young people do not qualify for a work permit, face deportation and would no longer be eligible to become legal permanent residents if they’re returned to their country of origin.

“The crux of the court’s decision is that the government can’t just pull the rug out from under hundreds of thousands of young people like it did without considering how they built their entire lives around the policy that existed,” Stephanie Ellie Norton, an attorney for the plaintiffs working for the National Immigration Project.

USCIS and DHS did not immediately respond to a request for a statement.

Under the judge’s orders, applicants who had the protection as well as new applicants will be able to submit applications for consideration of this protection. USCIS will also be required to make decisions on the work permit requests for new applicants and designees with existing deferred action status.

The judge has not ruled on the certification of the class but litigation will resume.