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Stock market today: Asian shares mostly higher ahead of consumer confidence and price data 11/27/2023 11:53pm • BANGKOK (AP) ��� Shares were mixed in Asia on Tuesday after Wall Street benchmarks edged lower as investors waited for updates on inflation and how American consumers are feeling about the economy. Tokyo and Hong Kong fell while Shanghai, Seoul and Sydney gained. On Tuesday the Conference Board wi One year after protests shook China, participants ponder the meaning of the brief flare of defiance 11/27/2023 08:07pm • BEIJING (AP) ��� A year ago, Li Houchen was on the streets of Shanghai, hollering ���Freedom!��� to protest China���s harsh ���zero COVID��� policy and growing authoritarianism. He was one of thousands of people demonstrating across China in what came to be called the White Paper movement, after the Live updates | Israel releases Palestinian prisoners and Hamas frees 11 hostages as truce extended 11/27/2023 07:11pm • A temporary truce between Israel and Hamas has been extended for two more days, the key mediator Qatar announced on Monday, which would have been the final day of the cease-fire. In the fourth swap under the original four-day truce, 11 Israeli hostages, all women and children, were released from Ham Cyber Monday marks the year's biggest online shopping day, and one more chance to save on gifts 11/27/2023 06:34pm • Consumers are scouring the internet for online deals as they begin to cap off the five-day post-Thanksgiving shopping bonanza with Cyber Monday. Even though e-commerce is now part and parcel of our everyday lives and much of the holiday shopping season, Cyber Monday ��� a term coined back in 2005 by Elon Musk visits Israel to meet top leaders as accusations of antisemitism on X grow 11/27/2023 12:41pm • JERUSALEM (AP) ��� Elon Musk, who's been under fire for endorsing an antisemitic conspiracy theory and wider accusations of hatred flourishing on his social media platform X, visited Israel, where he toured a kibbutz attacked by Hamas militants and held talks with top leaders. The billionaire met w ���Get Ready With Me���: Video genre that focuses on everyday life is everywhere �����and not slowing down 11/27/2023 12:02am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� ���Get Ready with Me��� ��� to go on a date, go to work or ... get fired? ���Get Ready with Me��� videos are everywhere these days, and they're as straightforward as the name suggests. Social media users, often influencers, invite viewers to watch them get ready to do something or 'Hunger Games' feasts, 'Napoleon' conquers but 'Wish' doesn't come true at Thanksgiving box office 11/26/2023 04:35pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� The Walt Disney Co.���s ���Wish��� had been expected to rule the Thanksgiving weekend box office, but moviegoers instead feasted on leftovers, as ���The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes��� led ticket sales for the second weekend, according to studio estimates Sunday Data Doctors: Pros and cons of hardware security keys 11/24/2023 05:38pm • Q: What are the pros and cons of using hardware security keys? A: One of the best ways to secure your online accounts is using some form of two-factor authentication to prevent anyone that acquires your password from getting in. The two factors are something you know ��� your password and some Ireland���s prime minister condemns anti-immigrant protesters who rampaged through central Dublin 11/24/2023 03:38pm • LONDON (AP) ��� Ireland���s prime minister on Friday condemned anti-immigrant protesters who rampaged through central Dublin after three young children were stabbed, saying the rioters simply wanted to cause chaos, not protect the country���s way of life. Police made a number of further arrests on F Greater Mid-Atlantic News Digest 1 p.m. 11/24/2023 01:03pm • Here���s a look at how AP���s general news coverage is shaping up for select stories. For up-to-the minute information on AP���s complete coverage of North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Maryland and Delaware, and the rest of the world, visit Coverage Plan at newsroom.ap.org Questions about cov Internet casinos thrive in 6 states. So why hasn't it caught on more widely in the US? 11/24/2023 11:15am • ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) ��� In the 10 years that it has been operating in New Jersey, internet casino gambling has generated nearly $7 billion in revenue for casinos and their affiliates, sent over a billion dollars in tax revenue to the state's coffers and helped keep Atlantic City's nine casinos Palestinians in Gaza seeking refuge from war find their world is shrinking. They say nowhere is safe 11/24/2023 08:03am • BEIRUT (AP) ��� Gaza has always been a small, crowded space with hardly any exits. Now the world for Palestinians there has shrunk to the size of whatever refuge they can find. The strip is 25 miles (40 kilometers) long by some 7 miles (11 kilometers) wide. More than a month into the war, Israeli tr Gaza shrinks for Palestinians seeking refuge. 4 stories offer a glimpse into a diminished world 11/24/2023 08:01am • BEIRUT (AP) ��� Gaza has always been a small, crowded space with hardly any exits. Now the world for Palestinians there has shrunk to the size of whatever refuge they can find: a jammed shelter, a car, the walls of a shared apartment, or floors and benches in hospital corridors. The strip is 25 mile What does Sam Altman's firing ��� and quick reinstatement ��� mean for the future of AI? 11/22/2023 10:43pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� It's been quite a week for ChatGPT-maker OpenAI ��� and co-founder Sam Altman. Altman, who helped start OpenAI as a nonprofit research lab back in 2015, was removed as CEO Friday in a sudden and mostly unexplained exit that stunned the industry. And while his chief executive title OpenAI brings back Sam Altman as CEO just days after his firing unleashed chaos 11/22/2023 03:30pm • The ousted leader of ChatGPT maker OpenAI will return to the company that fired him just days ago, concluding a short but chaotic power struggle that shocked the tech industry and underscored the conflicts around how to safely build artificial intelligence. The San Francisco-based company said late