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Carolina Panthers quarterback Bryce Young was benched ahead of Week 3, but was thrust back into the starting role after Andy Dalton's injury. Since Young's return, the Panthers have defeated the New Orleans Saints, and New York Giants, and only lost a nail-biter to the Kansas City Chiefs. More News: Former Chiefs' Player's Family Says NFL Treats CTE Victims as 'Throwaways' Young was electric against the Chiefs, completing 21 of 35 passes, tallying 282 total yards, and no interceptions. Young finished the 30-27 loss to Kansas City with a 92.8 passer rating, his best of the season. Panthers head coach Dave Canales spoke on Young's weekly progress since his return to the starting role. "I don't have to make any statements, he's making it for himself," Canales said. "He's continuing to show us the progress we're looking for, bringing our skilled players to life. Talking about Bryce, it's the coaching staff, it's his teammates, he's showing us what he can do when he's out there." Despite losing to the Chiefs, Young proved his value to Carolina as he helped the team nearly beat a legitimate playoff contender. Only three teams have put up 25-plus points against the Kansas City defense: Joe Burrow and the Cincinnati Bengals, Josh Allen and the Buffalo Bills, and Young and the Panthers. The Panthers were down 20-6 at the half against the Chiefs, but Young helped the team in its efforts to take Kansas City to the brink. Compared to his first two starts of the season, Young looks like a completely different player in his recent starts. "When I see Bryce out there, I think 'Oh that's the Alabama Bryce,'" Panthers linebacker Trevin Wallace said. "Like that's cold. I love seeing him go make them plays. A lot of people I feel like doubted him a bit. Now he's showing the doubters wrong and I love that about Bryce." Young has made a steady progression in his fourth straight start since reclaiming the starting role in Carolina after Dalton's accident. Against the Giants in Munich, Young was 15 of 25 for 126 yards and a score. Against the Saints, Young led the Panthers on a game-winning touchdown drive. Originally, Canales said he would decide whether Young was the starting quarterback week-to-week. However, Young's recent performance changed Canales' tone when he was asked if the 23-year-old quarterback would get the start next week. "Absolutely," said Canales. For more on the NFL , head to Newsweek Sports .
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By Melina Walling, The Associated Press BAKU, Azerbaijan — In the wee hours Sunday at the United Nations climate talks, countries from around the world reached an agreement on how rich countries can cough up the funds to support poor countries in the face of climate change. It’s a far-from-perfect arrangement, with many parties still deeply unsatisfied but some hopeful that the deal will be a step in the right direction. World Resources Institute president and CEO Ani Dasgupta called it “an important down payment toward a safer, more equitable future,” but added that the poorest and most vulnerable nations are “rightfully disappointed that wealthier countries didn’t put more money on the table when billions of people’s lives are at stake.” The summit was supposed to end on Friday evening but negotiations spiraled on through early Sunday. With countries on opposite ends of a massive chasm, tensions ran high as delegations tried to close the gap in expectations. Here’s how they got there: Rich countries have agreed to pool together at least $300 billion a year by 2035. It’s not near the full amount of $1.3 trillion that developing countries were asking for, and that experts said was needed. But delegations more optimistic about the agreement said this deal is headed in the right direction, with hopes that more money flows in the future. The text included a call for all parties to work together using “all public and private sources” to get closer to the $1.3 trillion per year goal by 2035. That means also pushing for international mega-banks, funded by taxpayer dollars, to help foot the bill. And it means, hopefully, that companies and private investors will follow suit on channeling cash toward climate action. The agreement is also a critical step toward helping countries on the receiving end create more ambitious targets to limit or cut emissions of heat-trapping gases that are due early next year. It’s part of the plan to keep cutting pollution with new targets every five years, which the world agreed to at the U.N. talks in Paris in 2015. The Paris agreement set the system of regular ratcheting up climate fighting ambition as away to keep warming under 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial levels. The world is already at 1.3 degrees Celsius (2.3 degrees Fahrenheit) and carbon emissions keep rising. The deal decided in Baku replaces a previous agreement from 15 years ago that charged rich nations $100 billion a year to help the developing world with climate finance. The new number has similar aims: it will go toward the developing world’s long laundry list of to-dos to prepare for a warming world and keep it from getting hotter. That includes paying for the transition to clean energy and away from fossil fuels. Countries need funds to build up the infrastructure needed to deploy technologies like wind and solar power on a large scale. Communities hard-hit by extreme weather also want money to adapt and prepare for events like floods, typhoons and fires. Funds could go toward improving farming practices to make them more resilient to weather extremes, to building houses differently with storms in mind, to helping people move from the hardest-hit areas and to help leaders improve emergency plans and aid in the wake of disasters. The Philippines, for example, has been hammered by six major storms in less than a month , bringing to millions of people howling wind, massive storm surges and catastrophic damage to residences, infrastructure and farmland. “Family farmers need to be financed,” said Esther Penunia of the Asian Farmers Association. She described how many have already had to deal with millions of dollars of storm damage, some of which includes trees that won’t again bear fruit for months or years, or animals that die, wiping out a main source of income. “If you think of a rice farmer who depends on his or her one hectare farm, rice land, ducks, chickens, vegetables, and it was inundated, there was nothing to harvest,” she said. The ending of COP29 is “reflective of the harder geopolitical terrain the world finds itself in,” said Li Shuo of the Asia Society. He cited Trump’s recent victory in the US — with his promises to pull the country out of the Paris Agreement — as one reason why the relationship between China and the EU will be more consequential for global climate politics moving forward. Developing nations also faced some difficulties agreeing in the final hours, with one Latin American delegation member saying that their group didn’t feel properly consulted when small island states had last-minute meetings to try to break through to a deal. Negotiators from across the developing world took different tacks on the deal until they finally agreed to compromise. Meanwhile, activists ramped up the pressure: many urged negotiators to stay strong and asserted that no deal would be better than a bad deal. But ultimately the desire for a deal won out. Some also pointed to the host country as a reason for the struggle. Mohamed Adow, director of climate and energy think tank Power Shift Africa, said Friday that “this COP presidency is one of the worst in recent memory,” calling it “one of the most poorly led and chaotic COP meetings ever.” The presidency said in a statement, “Every hour of the day, we have pulled people together. Every inch of the way, we have pushed for the highest common denominator. We have faced geopolitical headwinds and made every effort to be an honest broker for all sides.” Shuo retains hope that the opportunities offered by a green economy “make inaction self-defeating” for countries around the world, regardless of their stance on the decision. But it remains to be seen whether the UN talks can deliver more ambition next year. In the meantime, “this COP process needs to recover from Baku,” Shuo said. Associated Press reporters Seth Borenstein and Sibi Arasu contributed to this report. The Associated Press’ climate and environmental coverage receives financial support from multiple private foundations. AP is solely responsible for all content. Find AP’s standards for working with philanthropies, a list of supporters and funded coverage areas at AP.org . 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'The Five' react to President-elect Donald Trump's rounds with the media following the election. The end of the year is a natural time to look back on the previous 12 months, and 2024 was one for the political record books. Having been left for dead politically and survived multiple actual assassination attempts, President-elect Trump completed an unthinkable comeback. He stands on the precipice of re-assuming the presidency in a manner few could have envisioned four years ago. While the president-elect is 2024’s obvious winner, he is not the only one. Here are three others. JD Vance The "Hillbilly Elegy " author started the year as a freshman senator from Ohio and ends it as the clear frontrunner for the 2028 presidential nomination. Former President Trump's family joins him onstage as balloons fall after his speech at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, July 18, 2024. (Reuters/Brian Snyder) Of course, a lot can happen in four years, and serving as second-in-command to Trump can be unpredictable (just ask Mike Pence), but there’s no doubt that the Buckeye State senator’s stock has soared. DE FACTO PRESIDENT TRUMP'S HANDLING OF SHUTDOWN THREAT WAS A MASTERCLASS Along the way, Vance demonstrated his political nimbleness and acumen. He overcame his past criticism of Trump to win the coveted veepstakes against a field of formidable opponents. He put to rest lingering questions about his one and only run for Senate in which he ran behind the rest of the ticket in ruby red Ohio. Vance’s steady, warm and likable presence in the vice-presidential debate, which came on the heels of Trump’s choppy performance against Vice President Kamala Harris , helped give undecided voters the permission structure to pull the lever for the GOP ticket. President-elect Trump and Vice President-elect JD Vance attend the 125th Army-Navy football game at Northwest Stadium on Dec. 14, 2024, in Landover, Maryland. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images) At only 40 years old and fluent in the language of the modern GOP, Vance is in the catbird seat for the foreseeable future. STUNNING NEW DATA SHOWS VOTERS WERE RIGHT TO QUESTION BIDEN-HARRIS JOB NUMBERS Dave McCormick In 2022, McCormick came up a whisker short in the Republican primary for Pennsylvania’s U.S. Senate race. Of more than 1.3 million votes cast in the primary, McCormick was a mere 951 votes behind Dr. Mehmet Oz, who went on to lose to John Fetterman in the general. Fast-forward two years, McCormick is now the senator-elect from the Keystone State. He didn’t just win a Senate seat and pad the Republican majority. By ousting Democratic Sen. Bob Casey , he ended a political dynasty that stretched back to the 1960s to the outgoing senator’s father, who served as governor and state auditor. TRUMP'S APPROVAL RATINGS HAVE NEVER BEEN HIGHER In his campaign, McCormick led the charge against the Democratic opposition to fracking, a process involved in Pennsylvania’s thriving natural gas industry, that became headaches for Democrats everywhere. By Election Day, both Casey and Harris had been forced to renounce their previous opposition to fracking, which just a few years prior had been a rallying cry from Democrats everywhere as part of their extreme and misguided green agenda. With the oil and gas industry supporting nearly half a million Pennsylvania jobs, Casey’s election year conversion was undermined by his 17-year voting record, but McCormick deserves credit for taking the fight to the incumbent. Similar to 2016 and 2020, Pennsylvania was the lynchpin battleground state at the presidential level. With its 19 electoral votes, the commonwealth is poised to remain at the center of the action in the years ahead. 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