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Bills host Pats as they continue late-season playoff push 12/28/2023 02:40pm • NEW ENGLAND (4-11) at BUFFALO (9-6) Sunday, 1 p.m. EST, CBS OPENING LINE: Bills by 11 1/2 according to FanDuel Sportsbook. AGAINST THE SPREAD: Patriots 4-11; Buffalo 6-9. SERIES RECORD: Patriots lead 78-49-1. LAST MEETING: Patriots beat Bills 29-25 at New England on O 'It is historic': US poised to see record drop in yearly homicides despite public concern over crime 12/28/2023 01:45pm • mbbirdy/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- With 2023 ticking down, the nation is poised to finish the year with its biggest annual drop in homicides on record, according to preliminary data from law enforcement agencies both large and small. The homicide rate in the United States is expected to plummet near Gypsy Rose Blanchard out of prison years after persuading boyfriend to kill her abusive mother 12/28/2023 11:09am • Gypsy Rose Blanchard, the Missouri woman who persuaded an online boyfriend to kill her mother after she had forced her to pretend for years that she was suffering from leukemia, muscular dystrophy and other serious illnesses, was released Thursday from prison on parole. Blanchard was released early Mexico says a drug cartel kidnapped 14 people from towns where angry residents killed 10 gunmen 12/28/2023 09:49am • MEXICO CITY (AP) — A drug cartel in central Mexico has kidnapped 14 local residents, including four children, in apparent retaliation for an uprising by angry farmers earlier this month that killed 10 cartel gunmen, officials said. Farmers in the village of Texcaltitlan and a neighboring hamlet h Rivers remain high in parts of northern and central Europe after heavy rain 12/28/2023 09:31am • BERLIN (AP) — Parts of northern and central Europe continued to grapple with flooding on Thursday after heavy rain. A barrier near the German city of Magdeburg was opened for the first time in a decade to ease pressure from the Elbe River, and some animals were removed from their enclosures at a s The number of wounded Israeli soldiers is mounting, representing a hidden cost of war 12/28/2023 08:15am • RAMAT GAN, Israel (AP) — Igor Tudoran spent just 12 hours inside the Gaza Strip before a missile slammed into his tank, leaving him with a life-altering injury. “Already within the tank, I understood from the condition of my leg that I would lose it. But the question was how much of it will I lo AP concludes at least hundreds died in floods after Ukraine dam collapse, far more than Russia said 12/28/2023 08:07am • MYKOLAIV, Ukraine (AP) — They recognized the TV repairman. The residents of Oleshky in Russian-occupied southern Ukraine could not identify many of those they buried after a catastrophic dam collapse in June sent water coursing through their homes and shattered their lives. The bodies were too bl China reaffirms its military threats against Taiwan weeks before the island's presidential election 12/28/2023 07:55am • TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Weeks before Taiwan holds elections for its president and legislature, China renewed its threat to use military force to annex the self-governing island democracy it claims as its own territory. Defense Ministry spokesperson Col. Wu Qian on told reporters Thursday at a month Chain-reaction collision in dense fog on Turkish motorway leaves at least 10 people dead, 57 injured 12/28/2023 07:20am • ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — A chain-reaction crash Thursday involving seven vehicles on a motorway in northwest Turkey killed at least 10 people and injured 57 others, officials said. The pileup occurred in dense fog and low visibility on the Northern Marmara Highway in Sakarya province, some 150 kilom Man dies, woman 'expected to survive' after helicopter crashes into a canal near Miami 12/28/2023 07:08am • MIAMI (AP) — Emergency workers in South Florida on Wednesday rescued two people, including one who later died, from a canal after their helicopter crashed. The helicopter, a Hughes 369 aircraft, was carrying two people from Fort Myers when it crashed into a canal about 3 miles (4.83 kilometers) we Wellness trends to watch for in 2024: The Ozempic 'ripple effect' and more 12/28/2023 06:00am • ▶ Watch Video: Eye on America: AI advancements in health care, cosmetics and beyond The new year means new opportunities for wellness trends. After a year dominated by mental health discussions, COVID variants and weight-loss drugs hitting the market, we're looking toward 2024 and what Stigma against gay men could worsen Congo's biggest mpox outbreak, scientists warn 12/28/2023 12:37am • KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — As Congo copes with its biggest outbreak of mpox, scientists warn discrimination against gay and bisexual men on the continent could make it worse. In November, the World Health Organization reported that mpox, also known as monkeypox, was being spread via sex in Congo for Takeaways from AP investigation into Russia's cover-up of deaths caused by dam explosion in Ukraine 12/28/2023 12:34am • KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian occupation authorities vastly and deliberately undercounted the dead in one of the most devastating chapters of the 22-month war in Ukraine — the flooding that followed the catastrophic explosion that destroyed the Kakhovka Dam in the southern Kherson region. The AP' 9 Biggest ETFs to Buy 12/27/2023 07:00pm • Bigger isn't always better, but when it comes to the largest exchange-traded funds, or ETFs, on Wall Street, there are certainly some benefits that come with being the biggest option. With a huge share of assets under management, or AUM, it's easier for the largest ETFs to lower their fees and pass No. 17 SMU gets an ACC prequel when it faces Boston College in the Fenway Bowl 12/27/2023 04:43pm • Fenway Bowl: No. 17 SMU (11-2) vs. Boston College (6-6), Dec. 28, 11 a.m. Eastern (ESPN) FanDuel Sportsbook College Line: SMU by 10 1/2 Series record: SMU leads 1-0. WHAT’S AT STAKE After beating then-No. 17 Tulane in the American Athletic Conference championship game for its ninth straight win, S