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UCF looks to bounce back in first Big 12 home game vs. Baylor 09/28/2023 11:50am • Baylor (1-3, 0-1 Big 12) at UCF (3-1, 0-1), Saturday, 3:30 p.m. ET (FS1) Line: UCF by 11 1/2, according to FanDuel Sportsbook. Series record: UCF leads 1-0. WHAT'S AT STAKE? Baylor took out advertisements on billboards along highways in Orlando and Central Florida welcoming UCF to the Big 12. UCF is No. 14 Oklahoma trying to keep focus on Iowa State and its stingy defense before showdown with Texas 09/28/2023 11:10am • Oklahoma should know better than to get ahead of itself. The Sooners have had several seasons crippled by plucky underdogs in recent years, and Iowa State has been one of their biggest nuisances. The Cyclones defeated Oklahoma in 2017 and 2020 and have pushed the Sooners several other times. Now, Io No. 12 Alabama seeks 2-0 SEC start at last-place Mississippi State, which wants first league victory 09/28/2023 11:07am • Alabama’s first winning streak this season at least offers promise as it pursues consistency on offense. The No. 12 Crimson Tide hope to reclaim the form Alabama is used to at struggling Mississippi State, which looks to end a two-game slide and climb out of the SEC West basement. Series history f Christie calls Trump 'Donald Duck,' DeSantis knocks former president and other debate takeaways 09/28/2023 10:15am • Seven Republican presidential hopefuls gathered at the Reagan Library in California on Wednesday for the second of the party’s primary debates. The contest's dominant front-runner — former President Donald Trump — skipped the event again. With less than four months until the Iowa caucuses offi Slightly fewer number of Americans apply for jobless benefits as layoffs remain rare 09/28/2023 08:46am • U.S. applications for unemployment benefits inched up modestly this week after reaching their lowest level in eight months the previous week, as the labor market continues to defy the Federal Reserve's interest rate hikes meant to cool it. Filings for jobless claims rose by 2,000 to 204,000 for the Biden to send disaster assistance to Louisiana, as salt water threatens the state's drinking water 09/28/2023 08:30am • BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — President Joe Biden announced Wednesday that federal disaster assistance is available for Louisiana, which is working to slow a mass inflow of salt water creeping up the Mississippi River and threatening drinking water supplies in the southern part of the state. Biden's ac US guitarist Al Di Meola suffers a heart attack on stage in Romania but is now in a stable condition 09/28/2023 08:26am • BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — The award-winning U.S. guitarist Al Di Meola suffered a heart attack during a performance in Romania’s capital but is currently in a stable condition and receiving treatment, a hospital spokesperson said on Thursday. Di Meola, 69, began playing a concert at a venue in B The Turkish government withdraws from a film festival after a documentary was reinstated 09/28/2023 07:50am • ISTANBUL (AP) — The Turkish government on Thursday withdrew its support for the country’s oldest film festival after organizers reversed a decision to exclude a politically sensitive documentary. The Culture and Tourism Ministry said it was backing out of the Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival No. 2 Michigan is preparing to defend old-school Nebraska option offense in its first road game 09/28/2023 06:10am • LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Michigan's first road game comes with an added challenge at Nebraska on Saturday. The Wolverines (4-0, 1-0 Big Ten) will go against an offense that has gone back in time under first-year coach Matt Rhule. The Cornhuskers (2-2, 0-1) have been lining up in the I formation at t No. 14 Oklahoma, with the Texas showdown a week away, hopes to avoid slip vs. rugged Iowa State 09/28/2023 06:10am • Iowa State (2-2, 1-0 Big 12) at No. 14 Oklahoma (4-0, 1-0), Saturday, 7 p.m. ET (FS1) Line: Oklahoma by 19 1/2, according to  FanDuel Sportsbook. Series record: Oklahoma leads 79-7-2. WHAT’S AT STAKE? Oklahoma appears to be back on track after a 6-7 season last year, but the Sooners can't afford No. 1 Georgia finally hits the road, visiting Auburn in the Deep South's oldest rivalry 09/28/2023 06:10am • AUBURN, Ala. (AP) — The Georgia Bulldogs are taking their star-studded show on the road for the first time. Challenged only once this season, the top-ranked Bulldogs (4-0, 1-0 Southeastern Conference) visit an Auburn team Saturday that flopped in its first SEC game under Hugh Freeze. The Deep Sout An explosion following a lightning strike in the Uzbek capital kills 1 person and injures 162 09/28/2023 05:24am • A powerful explosion in the Uzbek capital, Tashkent, killed a teenage boy Thursday and injured at least 162 people following a fire caused by a lightning strike, Uzbekistan’s Ministry of Health said. The Ministry of Emergency Situations said the explosion happened early in the morning at a warehou Hollywood actors to resume negotiations with studios next week, as protracted writers strike ends 09/27/2023 11:54pm • NEW YORK (AP) — With the Hollywood writers strike over, actors will now get a shot at cutting their own deal with studios and streaming services. The Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Radio and Television Artists announced Wednesday night that strike negotiations with studios would resume House Speaker McCarthy is back to square one as the Senate pushes ahead to avert a federal shutdown 09/27/2023 11:36pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — As the Senate marches ahead with a bipartisan approach to prevent a government shutdown, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is back to square one — asking his hard-right Republicans to do what they have said they would never do: approve their own temporary House measure to keep the g Gang violence in Haiti is escalating and spreading with a significant increase in killings, UN says 09/27/2023 10:29pm • UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Gang violence in Haiti is escalating and spreading from the capital Port-au-Prince through the center of the country to its two other major cities, Gonaives and Cap-Hatien, with a significant increase in killings, kidnappings and rapes in the past few months, the U.N. chief s