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Wall Street flirts with its all-time high 12/05/2025 12:53pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� The U.S. stock market is flirting with its all-time high on Friday. The S&P 500 rose 0.2% and was on track earlier in the day to squeak past its record closing level, which was set in October. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 82 points, or 0.2%, as of 12:50 p.m. Eastern Championship week: No CFP worries for Big Ten with No. 1 vs No. 2 matchup; anxiety reigns elsewhere 12/05/2025 12:52pm • The conference championship games are upon us, providing the College Football Playoff committee one last look at contenders for the 12-team field and requiring anxious coaches and players on bubble teams to keep the antacids handy. The Big Ten will be the only conference with a sense of calm this we French first lady Brigitte Macron visits an old friend in China: A giant panda called Yuan Meng 12/05/2025 12:51pm • CHENGDU, China (AP) ��� French first lady Brigitte Macron caught up with an old friend ��� a giant panda born in France ��� at the tail end Friday of a visit to China with President Emmanuel Macron. At a panda reserve in southwest China that Yuan Meng now calls home, the first lady marveled at how b Cloudflare says service restored after outage that brought down sites including Zoom and LinkedIn 12/05/2025 12:49pm • MADRID (AP) ��� Internet infrastructure company Cloudflare on Friday said it had restored services following an outage that took place in the morning and brought down several global websites including LinkedIn, Zoom and others, the second such crash to affect the company in less than three weeks. C Father says ex-wife didn't supervise son who's focus of probe into stepsister's cruise ship death 12/05/2025 12:48pm • TITUSVILLE, Fla. (AP) ��� A 16-year-old boy who is the subject of an FBI investigation into the death of his older stepsister on a Carnival cruise ship last month never had permission from his father to go on the trip, the dad said in family court papers accusing his ex-wife of failing to supervise Fed's preferred inflation gauge stayed elevated in September as spending weakened 12/05/2025 12:47pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The Federal Reserve���s preferred measure of inflation changed little in September, likely easing the way to a widely expected interest rate cut by the central bank next week. Prices rose 0.3% in September from August, the Commerce Department said Friday, in a report that was del Trump gana el primer Premio FIFA de la Paz 12/05/2025 12:47pm • El presidente de EE.UU., Donald Trump, fue galardonado este viernes con el reci��n creado Premio FIFA de la Paz.El organismo rector del f��tbol mundial anunci�� en noviembre que este a��o entregar��a por primera vez este premio, un nuevo reconocimiento anual a una persona que, seg��n la FIFA, ha lle Heather Gibbs testifies at NASCAR antitrust trial that charter offer was 'like a gun to the head' 12/05/2025 12:45pm • CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) ��� The daughter-in-law of race team owner Joe Gibbs gave emotional testimony Friday in the federal antitrust case against NASCAR about the chaotic six-hour period in which teams had to sign an extension on a new revenue model or forfeit their charters. ���The document was somet FACT FOCUS: Trump said weaker gas mileage rules will mean cheaper cars. Experts say don't bet on it 12/05/2025 12:41pm • DETROIT (AP) ��� President Donald Trump this week announced plans to weaken rules for how far automakers' new vehicles need to travel on a gallon of gasoline, set under former President Joe Biden. The Trump administration said the rules, known formally as Corporate Average Fuel Economy, or CAFE, sta Another line of attack: White House sets up a hall of shame for news outlets 12/05/2025 12:35pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� President Donald Trump's White House is taking on the role of media critic and asking for help from ���everyday Americans." The White House launched a web portal it says will spotlight bias on the part of news outlets, targeting the Boston Globe, CBS News, The Independent and The W Pitt and Wisconsin mutually agree to cancel 2026 matchup. They'll still face off at Dublin in 2027 12/05/2025 12:33pm • MADISON, Wis. (AP) ��� Pittsburgh and Wisconsin have mutually agreed to cancel their scheduled 2026 matchup. The teams were scheduled to face off at Wisconsin on Sept. 19. Wisconsin instead will host Eastern Michigan on that day. Wisconsin���s other nonconference home games next season are a Sept. 6 College student deported during Thanksgiving trip could've fought removal as a kid, US says 12/05/2025 12:32pm • CONCORD, N.H. (AP) ��� A Massachusetts college student who was deported while trying to visit family for Thanksgiving missed multiple opportunities to fight a removal order issued when she was a young child, according to a government attorney. Any Lucia Lopez Belloza, a 19-year-old freshman at Babs Trump is awarded new peace prize from FIFA, as soccer's governing body continues embrace of Republican US president 12/05/2025 12:31pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Trump is awarded new peace prize from FIFA, as soccer's governing body continues embrace of Republican US president. How much snow came to the DC region in season's first winter storm 12/05/2025 12:30pm • Flurries are tapering off after a wintry storm blanketed the D.C. area Friday. It's the first time the D.C. region has seen measurable snowfall in December since 2017. A surge of cold air overnight brought temperatures into the low 20s and ushered in the first snow of the season early Friday m Bayern's D��az gets Champions League ban cut after reckless foul on PSG's Hakimi 12/05/2025 12:30pm • NYON, Switzerland (AP) ��� Bayern Munich forward Luis D��az has had his three-game Champions League ban reduced to two on appeal following his reckless foul on Paris Saint-Germain's Achraf Hakimi. UEFA said Friday that D��az's appeal on the charge of ���serious rough play��� was upheld, without spec