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May 13, 2025
By Pat Welter Michael Jordan is officially not the most famous Jordan in America. Michael B. Jordan’s “Sinners” is the No. 1 movie at the box office. I highly recommend. Jordon Hudson is now the face of North Carolina athletics and the No. 1 story in sports/entertainment news. I’m not the first to make this
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After months of pursuing a plan to convert itself into a for-profit business, OpenAI is reversing course and said Monday its nonprofit will continue to control the company that makes ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence products. “We made the decision for the nonprofit to stay in control after hearing from civic leaders and having discussions
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By Pat Welter, WRAL Carolina Hurricanes Washington Capitals ESPN | Tuesday, May 6th 7:00 PM EDT Morrisville, N.C. — For Sebastian Aho, even playoff hockey is now the easy part. The Carolina Hurricanes center took a personal day over the weekend. Now we know why. “First baby, it was unreal,” Aho said Monday. “So happy
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North Carolina football coach Bill Belichick hasn’t yet coached a game for the Tar Heels. But the hiring of a six-time Super Bowl-winning head coach has brought the football program more publicity than anyone could have anticipated. Much of it focused not on Belichick or his vast remaking of the Tar Heels’ roster, but on
READ MOREGENEVA (AP) — A global group of broadcasters and publishers is calling on artificial intelligence developers to make sure their technology serves the public by helping to counter misinformation and protect the value of fact-based news. The Geneva-based European Broadcasting Union, an association of public broadcasters that’s also known for running the popular Eurovision Song
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In the crypto world, meme coins are mostly just jokes with no intrinsic value. But the Trump family is parlaying the president’s meme coin into two valuable commodities: serious cash and access to the president. Since the coin was launched earlier this year, it has generated more than $320 million in fees for its creators,
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A teenager who admitted being “addicted to speed” behind the wheel had totaled two other cars in the year before he slammed into a minivan at 112 mph (180 kph) in a Seattle suburb, killing the driver and three of the five children she was transporting for a homeschool co-op. After sentencing Chase Daniel Jones
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For the final time with four classifications, the N.C. High School Athletic Association softball playoffs are upon us. In this playoff preview, we hand out bracket superlatives, give favorites and dark horses for each region, showcase players to watch, and make championship predictions. HighSchoolOT will have coverage of the softball playoffs all the way through
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The 2027 NFL draft is heading to the nation’s capital on the National Mall, President Donald Trump said Monday, bringing the widely popular event back to Washington for the first time in more than eight decades. After word of Washington getting the draft two years from now surfaced Sunday night, Trump made
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The N.C. High School Athletic Association has released the final brackets for the baseball and softball state playoffs. The final brackets were released after several rounds of preliminary brackets were posted on Monday afternoon. The first round of the baseball and softball state playoffs is scheduled for Tuesday at the higher seed. Winners will advance
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