 U.S. President Joe Biden returned to the White House on Sunday night, following an early Thanksgiving dinner with U.S. service members in Virginia. He also arrived back in Washington, D.C. ahead of his 81st birthday on Monday that he was expected to spend part of his birthday observing the White House tradition of pardoning Thanksgiving turkeys. The goblers receiving executive clemency at the ceremony were named Liberty and Bell, the 20-week-old, 42-pound birds were hatched and bred in Willmark, Minnesota. By the Genio turkey company for the occasion, the turkey pardon ceremony marks the unofficial start of the holiday season in Washington and it will be an especially busy day for the White House.