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Jennings, dominant defense carry No. 25 SMU to AAC title, 26-14 over Tulane 12/02/2023 09:49pm • NEW ORLEANS (AP) — SMU quarterback Kevin Jennings got hit in his throwing arm and fumbled on the first play of his first career start in a conference championship game on the road. As Jennings came to the sideline, Mustangs coach Rhett Lashlee told him, “That wasn't your fault.” “I know,” Online shopping scams to avoid this holiday season 12/01/2023 06:56pm • Nearly 85% of consumers are worried about running into artificial intelligence-based fraud this holiday shopping season, according to the Prove Identity 2023 Online Shopping & AI-Based Fraud Report. And that's with good reason. AI-technology means the days of phishing emails filled with broke Business Highlights: Fed's Powell notes easing inflation; Walmart ditches Musk's X 12/01/2023 04:50pm • ___ Fed’s Powell notes inflation is easing but downplays discussion of interest rate cuts WASHINGTON (AP) — Inflation is slowing steadily, but it’s too early to declare victory or to discuss when the Federal Reserve might cut interest rates, Chair Jerome Powell said. Powell noted that consumer Pfizer nixes more study of twice-daily obesity pill treatment that made many patients nauseous 12/01/2023 11:13am • Pfizer shares sank Friday when the drugmaker said it would abandon a twice-daily obesity treatment after more than half the patients in a clinical trial stopped taking it. The pharmaceutical company said it will focus instead on a once-daily version of the pill, danuglipron, instead of starting a la Baking Connections: Unconventional paths to local fame for DC-area Asian-inspired pastry shops 12/01/2023 05:56am • This is part two of “Baking Connections,” a series on three local bakers and the incredibly popular baked goods with Asian flavors they are bringing to the D.C. region.  Three local bakers have been feeding the D.C. area's appetite for pastries with an Asian flair, mirroring a nationwide hun Eyeing 2024, Michigan Democrats expand voter registration and election safeguards in the swing state 11/30/2023 05:14pm • LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan Democrats are building on an effort to overhaul election laws in the state by allowing 16-year-olds to register before they can legally vote at 18 and adding more protections for election officials ahead of a 2024 presidential election that the swing state could play Business Highlights: Opec+ cuts production; Inflation continues to ease 11/30/2023 04:31pm • ___ Some OPEC+ members will cut the oil that they send to the world to try to boost prices LONDON (AP) — The OPEC oil cartel and allied producers have made another big swipe at propping up lagging crude prices. The OPEC+ oil ministers came out of an online meeting Thursday with more than 2 million US says Mexican drug cartel was so bold in timeshare fraud that some operators posed as US officials 11/30/2023 04:05pm • MEXICO CITY (AP) — A Mexican drug cartel was so bold in operating frauds that target elderly Americans that the gang’s operators posed as U.S. Treasury Department officials, U.S. authorities said Thursday. The scam was described by the department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control, or OFAC. T Extreme weather, guilt tipping and, yes, Barbie: We're over you, 2023 11/30/2023 11:19am • NEW YORK (AP) — All things Barbie, going pantless, humungo Stanley Cup bottles and pressure tipping. There's plenty from 2023 to leave behind come the new year. Extreme weather hit historic heights. Fakeness took a huge turn with the rise of AI. The rudeness epidemic continued with the help of Fac Thousands of fake Facebook accounts shut down by Meta were primed to polarize voters ahead of 2024 11/30/2023 09:09am • WASHINGTON (AP) — Someone in China created thousands of fake social media accounts designed to appear to be from Americans and used them to spread polarizing political content in an apparent effort to divide the U.S. ahead of next year's elections, Meta said Thursday. The network of nearly 4,800 f Suspected drug cartel members abduct 7 Mexican immigration agents at gunpoint in Cancun 11/30/2023 05:41am • MEXICO CITY (AP) — Suspected drug cartel members abducted seven Mexican immigration agents in Cancun at gunpoint Wednesday, beat them and threatened to kill them before they were freed, authorities said. The brazen mass kidnapping occurred near Cancun’s bustling airport and illustrates the degre Emirati-designated COP28 leader forcefully denies report UAE wanted to seek oil deals in summit 11/29/2023 07:16pm • DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The Emirati president-designate for the upcoming United Nations COP28 climate talks forcefully denied Wednesday a report alleging his nation planned to use the summit to strike oil and gas deals. Sultan al-Jaber, who also leads the massive state-run Abu Dhabi Nat South Carolina quarterback Spencer Rattler giving up final college year for NFL 11/29/2023 04:00pm • COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Quarterback Spencer Rattler, perhaps the brightest spot for South Carolina in a losing season, is giving up his final year in college for the NFL. Rattler, a fifth-year senior who spent his first three seasons at Oklahoma, announced his intentions Wednesday on social media. � Michigan to join state-level effort to regulate AI political ads as federal legislation is pending 11/29/2023 10:15am • LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan is joining an effort to curb deceptive uses of artificial intelligence and manipulated media through state-level policies as Congress and the Federal Elections Commission continue to debate more sweeping regulations ahead of the 2024 elections. Campaigns on the state Braden Smith flirts with triple-double again as No. 1 Purdue routs Texas Southern 99-67 11/28/2023 11:42pm • WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) — Purdue coach Matt Painter understood Braden Smith was chasing history Tuesday night. He just wasn’t going to let it happen by running up the stats. For the second time this season, Smith flirted with posting the second triple-double in the Boilermakers’ storied hist