Unwanted yellow shadow / halo around black text

I'm getting a yellow shadow / halo / highlight around the (black)  text in my documents.  It is not around all words.  The shadow is always yellow.
Does anyone know what this problem is and how to fix it?

Attributes such as fills and strokes can be applied at the layer level, the group level and the object level.  Look in your appearance panel to see where the mystery yellow fill is (or maybe it's a thin yellow stroke?)
You can see whether or not attributes are assigned to whatever in your layer panel.
In this example, note the darkened appearance marker dots (there's a real name for them, but it's not coming to me)  If I had effects/fills/other attributes assigned to my group, it would be darkened as well.
Watch what happens in your appearance panel as you click on those dots.
With text, there is an additional level of complexity, the character level.  You can apply a fill in the appearance panel that covers over the fill assigned at the character level.  If your issue is happening only on text, this is the likely culprit.
With your text selected, this should be close to what you see in your appearance panel.  Double click on the "Characters" line to drill in there, presumably showing this:
It's also possible that you've got a yellow outer glow or drop shadow assigned somewhere in there.
Hopefully this makes sense.  I went a little deeper than I intended...

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