Michigan State women's basketball star Nia Clouden declares for WNBA draft

USA TODAY
What is National News Literacy Week? Event seeks to combat conspiracy theories online
National News Literacy Week is a public awareness campaign aimed at advancing student's ability to critically examine the credibility of news.
Yahoo Finance
Why Robinhood is a better stock than Coinbase despite a 180% surge this year: Analyst
In the Coinbase vs. Robinhood debate, Dan Dolev said it's Robinhood all the way. Here's why.
AFP
Defeat of Syria's Assad stirs a mother's bitterness
In the villages above the Syrian port city of Tartus they once hailed the sons who died fighting in Bashar al-Assad's service as martyrs.Down the hill in Tartus, a large port city on the Mediterranean that still holds a Russian naval garrison that once backed Assad, the tables have turned.
Reuters
Wisconsin shooter contacted California man planning separate attack, reports say
The teenage girl who killed a teacher and fellow student at her Wisconsin school this week was in contact via text message with a California man who was planning his own mass shooting, according to media reports that cited court papers. News of the connection between 15-year-old Natalie "Samantha" Rupnow and the Carlsbad, California, man surfaced while authorities worked to determine why she staged Monday's attack at the Abundant Life Christian School in Madison. In Wisconsin, the Dane County Medical Examiner's office identified the two people killed at the school as student Rubi Vergara, 14, and teacher Erin West, 42.
Associated Press
US applications for unemployment benefits come back down after last week's big rise
The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits fell markedly last week following a big increase the week before. Jobless claim applications declined by 22,000 to 220,000 for the week of Dec. 14, the Labor Department reported Thursday. Continuing claims, the total number of Americans collecting jobless benefits, fell by 5,000 to 1.87 million for the week of Dec. 7.
Associated Press
Former top aide to New York City's mayor surrenders to DA's office to face charges
A former top aide to New York City Mayor Eric Adams surrendered to authorities Thursday to face corruption charges in the latest blow to the administration of a mayor who has seen who is facing his own indictment and investigations into multiple aides and allies. Ingrid Lewis-Martin, who resigned Sunday as Adams’ chief adviser and one of the most powerful officials in City Hall, was seen entering the lower Manhattan office of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg early Thursday morning. Bragg and the commissioner of the city’s watchdog Department of Investigation, Jocelyn Strauber, have scheduled a news conference for Thursday afternoon.
Associated Press
German lawmakers back plan to protect supreme court against meddling by authoritarians, extremists
Officials have cited experiences in Poland, Hungary and elsewhere as illustrating the need to bolster the Federal Constitutional Court. In what is expected to be one of its last sessions before it is dissolved ahead of an early election in February, parliament's lower house, or Bundestag, backed the plan by 600 votes to 69. “We see when we look abroad that, when autocrats come to power, they almost always first turn against the effectiveness and independence of justice,” Interior Minister Nancy Faeser told lawmakers.
AFP
Gisele Pelicot's ex-husband jailed 20 years in France mass rape trial
Gisele Pelicot's ex-husband was jailed on Thursday for 20 years over her drugging and mass rape by strangers recruited online, in a case that shocked France and resonated around the world.- 'Never regretted' - Dominique Pelicot has admitted to drugging Gisele Pelicot for almost a decade so he and strangers he recruited online could rape her.
Associated Press
Takeaways from AP's story on Everglades restoration efforts
The Everglades in southern Florida were once about twice the size of New Jersey. Wildlife was abundant and water flowed freely from the Kissimmee River to Lake Okeechobee to the Florida Bay. A massive state-federal project, approved by Congress in 2000 with bipartisan support, aims to undo damages wreaked upon these wetlands.
Associated Press
U.S. economy grows at 3.1% pace in third quarter, an upgrade from previous estimate
The American economy grew at a healthy 3.1% annual clip from July through September, propelled by vigorous consumer spending and an uptick in exports, the government said in an upgrade to its previous estimate. Third-quarter growth in U.S. gross domestic product — the economy's output of goods and services — accelerated from the April-July rate of 3% and continued to look sturdy despite high interest rates, the Commerce Department said Thursday. GDP growth has now topped 2% in eight of the last nine quarters.
Associated Press
In Florida, a race is on to save the Everglades and protect a key source of drinking water
The air is thick and sticky as Kominoski, a Florida International University professor, pushes a rod to secure a tube that collects timed and continuous water samples that will help his team investigate the impacts of climate change and freshwater flows in this unique, sensitive ecosystem. The Everglades ecosystem was degraded and transformed when a highway connecting Tampa and Miami was built in 1928, cutting through a mosaic of prairies, sawgrass marshes, freshwater ponds and forested uplands. Sections of the road are now being elevated to restore water flows into the Shark River Slough – a vital restoration area deep in the Everglades National Park.
Yahoo Finance
Government shutdown odds are rising. Economic experts aren’t panicking (yet).
Washington could be barreling towards yet another spending crisis, but the initial reaction from economic watchers was to downplay the prospect of a protracted shutdown.
Associated Press
A massive fire kills 9 people at a building under construction in Taiwan
Nine people died Thursday in a massive fire in central Taiwan at a huge food-processing building that was under construction, news reports said. Video posted on social media showed a wall of dark gray smoke and orange flames billowing out of one end of the five-story building in the city of Taichung. The cause of the fire was undetermined but the Taichung government said it spread rapidly because of a large quantity of foam panels on site.
Yahoo Finance
Nvidia stock rebounds after broad market rout as analysts stay bullish on outlook
Nvidia stock rose as Wall Street analysts reiterated their Buy ratings despite concerns about rising competition and the possibility that AI chip demand could wane.
The Conversation
Colorado now has one of the nation’s most liberal abortion access laws, but ballot measures to restrict abortion have a long history in the state
Colorado voters have been asked 10 times since 1970 to vote on abortion ballot measures.
CBS News
Google Maps shows suspected corpse, helps solve murder mystery
Officers arrested a woman who was the missing male's partner and another man who was her ex-partner, police said.
USA TODAY
Who owns guns in the US? The gender gap is closing for conservatives.
Gun ownership among Republican women across America surges, a Gallup poll reveals. Rural areas see spike as firearms are used for protection, sport.
Associated Press
The Latest: Luigi Mangione expected to appear in Pennsylvania court for extradition hearing
Luigi Mangione, the suspect charged with shooting to death a health insurance company chief executive on a Manhattan street, will be taken Thursday morning to hearings on related Pennsylvania criminal charges and efforts to extradite him to New York. Here's the latest: Who is Mangione’s attorney? Luigi Mangione has added a prominent defense lawyer to his legal team as Manhattan prosecutors work to return him from Pennsylvania to face a murder charge.
The Conversation
A nation exhausted: The neuroscience of why Americans are tuning out politics
Political polarization and people not being exposed to other perspectives online are two major factors that contribute to Americans feeling exhausted with politics.
The Conversation
The Wanamaker organ has been part of a treasured holiday tradition in Philly for over 100 years − a historian explains its illustrious past and uncertain future
With Macy’s stores across the country shuttering, some Philadelphians are concerned about the fate of the 120-year-old instrument once touted as ‘the greatest organ in the world.’

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