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February 25, 2025
WASHINGTON (AP) — Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was sworn in Thursday as President Donald Trump’s health secretary after a close Senate vote, putting the prominent vaccine skeptic in control of $1.7 trillion in federal spending, vaccine recommendations and food safety as well as health insurance programs for roughly half the country. Nearly all Republicans fell
READ MOREWASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has settled a lawsuit against Elon Musk’s X over the social media platform, formerly known as Twitter, banning him after the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol, according to a person familiar with the matter. The settlement was for about $10 million, the person said, speaking on the
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LES SABLES D’OLONNE, France (AP) — When aviation pioneer Bertrand Piccard a decade ago spearheaded a much-hyped flight around the world in a plane powered by sunlight, it raised awareness about climate change but held little promise of revolutionizing air travel. Now, the 66-year-old Swiss adventurer behind Solar Impulse is aiming higher, in hopes of
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NEW YORK (AP) — A new study shows that bird flu has silently spread from animals to some veterinarians. The study published Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention echoes two smaller ones that detected evidence of infection in previously undiagnosed farmworkers. In those studies, several of the infected workers remembered having symptoms
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Lincolnton’s L.J. Smith was torching teams like few freshmen have done in recent years, when a broken bone in his leg cut his freshman year short. “It just motivated me to work harder this year, to push myself and my teammates to get back to where we were last year,” Smith said. It appears he’s
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By Brian Murphy, WRAL Six former North Carolina football players have been invited to participate in the NFL Combine in Indianapolis. The event will be held Feb. 24 through March 3. Prospects who are invited to the combine (329 this season) are likely to be drafted by one of the NFL’s 32 teams. Running back
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The N.C. High School Athletic Association indoor track & field championships are Friday and Saturday at Winston-Salem’s JDL Fast Track facility. Your defending state champions on the boys’ side are Mount Tabor (4A), Croatan (3A), and T.W. Andrews (1A/2A). On the girls’ side, your defending state champs are: Cuthbertson (4A), Dudley (3A), and Swain County
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Elon Musk says he will abandon his $97.4 billion offer to buy the nonprofit behind OpenAI if the ChatGPT maker drops its plan to convert into a for-profit company. “If OpenAI, Inc.’s Board is prepared to preserve the charity’s mission and stipulate to take the ‘for sale’ sign off its assets by halting its conversion,
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High schools across the country will have official flag football rules beginning this fall. The National Federation of State High School Associations announced on Thursday that a committee had established the first set of national rules for the sport. The official rules will be available in print and digital form by early May. There were
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LONDON (AP) — Work to give 21st-century London yet another skyscraper has uncovered traces — in fact chunks — of the city’s origins almost 2,000 years ago. Archaeologists exploring the site of a planned 32-story office tower announced Thursday that they have unearthed the remains of a Roman basilica that once stood at the heart
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