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• Why Venezuela wants to annex a chunk of Guyana
  Venezuela is claiming two-thirds of neighboring country Guyana...
  Venezuela is claiming two-thirds of neighboring country Guyana as its own following a recent referendum vote on a land dispute that dates back to the 19th century. While the contested border region of Essequibo is mostly jungle, the oil off its coast is likely what spurred Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro to include it in a new map of the country he presented this week. Guyana recently opened bidding to oil multinationals looking to help it boost drilling.
  
  Maduro proposed a law that would put Essequibo’s oil under the jurisdiction of a Venezuelan state company and give foreign operators three months to cease their activities. But unless he’s prepared to use force, it seems like Maduro’s moves may just be symbolic.
  
  “You have nothing to worry about,” Guyana’s President Irfaan Ali tried to assure international investors. The country has put its military on alert and asked for support from the UN Security Council, as well as regional powers like the US and Brazil.
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• ☕️What Else is Brewing Thursday Morning
  We want to wish our Jewish readers a very Happy Hanukkah. The holiday begins tonight and lasts for eight...
  We want to wish our Jewish readers a very Happy Hanukkah. The holiday begins tonight and lasts for eight days. Arriving during a global spike in antisemitic rhetoric and attacks, Hanukkah’s message of finding light in times of darkness has taken on greater resonance this year.
  
  Three people were killed in a shooting on UNLV’s campus. Police said the shooter was also dead.
  
  Republican senators blocked a bill for more than $66 billion in aid for Ukraine, insisting that US border security measures be added even as the president warned that the US will have to stop providing weapons if new funds aren’t approved by the end of the year.
  
  GOP presidential hopefuls Nikki Haley, Ron DeSantis, Chris Christie, and Vivek Ramaswamy sparred at a debate last night, but front-runner Donald Trump once again did not participate.
  
  Meta and its CEO Mark Zuckerberg were slapped with a civil lawsuit by the state of New Mexico that claims Facebook and Instagram have become “a marketplace for predators in search of children upon whom to prey.”
  
  McDonald’s is going big on more than Grimace Shakes. The burger chain is planning a massive expansion over the next four years, with almost 10,000 new locations. It’s also testing out a new alien-themed restaurant concept.
  
  Today marks the 82nd anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor that drew the US into WWII.
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• Closing Oil & Gas Prices
  Benchmark U.S. crude oil for January delivery...
  Benchmark U.S. crude oil for January delivery fell $2.94 to $69.38 per barrel Wednesday. Brent crude for February delivery fell $2.90 to $74.30 per barrel.
  
  Wholesale gasoline for January delivery fell 8 cents to $2.03 a gallon. January heating oil fell 6 cents to $2.58 a gallon. January natural gas fell 14 cents to $2.57 per 1,000 cubic feet.
  
  
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• Las Vegas police say suspect is dead after campus shooting at UNLV
  LAS VEGAS (AP) — Police said a suspect was found dead Wednesday as officers responded to what...
  LAS VEGAS (AP) — Police said a suspect was found dead Wednesday as officers responded to what officials of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, called a “confirmed active shooter” on campus.
  
  The university said on Twitter [Now X], that the shooter was at the Beam Hall, Frank and Estella Building, home of UNLV’s Lee Business School, and that police were responding to an additional report of shots fired at the nearby student union.
  
  Las Vegas police posted on X that a suspect “has been located and is deceased” about 40 minutes after the initial alert was posted.
  
  “This is not a test,” the university had written in that alert. “RUN-HIDE-FIGHT.”
  
  The shooting occurred in a city still scarred by one of the worst mass killings in U.S. history, the Oct. 1, 2017, mass shooting at the Mandalay Bay casino and hotel in Las Vegas, in which 60 were killed and hundreds more wounded.
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• U.S. stocks finish lower as S&P 500, Dow industrials suffer three straight sessions of declines
  U.S. stock indexes ended lower on Wednesday,...
  U.S. stock indexes ended lower on Wednesday, with the S&P 500 SPX, -0.39%, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA booking a third straight session of losses as investors awaited more labor-market data for clarity about the state of the economy. The Dow industrials fell 70 points, or 0.2%, to end at 36,054, while the S&P 500 finished 0.4% lower and the Nasdaq Composite COMP, -0.58% retreated 0.6%. U.S. businesses added 103,000 new jobs in November, paycheck company ADP said on Wednesday, in another sign of slower hiring and a softer labor market. Investors will monitor jobless claims numbers on Thursday morning before contemplating the widely followed official data on nonfarm payrolls, wages, and the unemployment rate, due out Friday 8:30 a.m. Eastern time.
  
  
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