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April 26, 2025
By Pat Welter “I tried to make it fun first,” Bobby Honeycutt explained. “I wanted to introduce him to all of the sports.” It’s a simple strategy and it’s yielded one of the greatest UNC hitters of all time. “It’s been surreal really,” Honeycutt said. Bobby is the father of Vance Honeycutt and a former
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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Two abortion-inducing drugs could soon be reclassified as controlled and dangerous substances in Louisiana under a first-of-its-kind bill that received final legislative passage Thursday and is expected to be signed into law by the governor. Supporters of the reclassification of mifepristone and misoprostol, commonly known as “abortion pills,” say it
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Three-time World Cup medalist, former member of the U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team and midfielder for the North Carolina Courage Heather O’Reilly will be back on the pitch in the Triangle in a new sort of soccer this spring. But you’re a two time national champion He’s not uh world cup champ three time Olympic
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New research suggests the HPV vaccine is preventing cancer in men, as well as in women, but fewer boys than girls are getting the shots in the United States. The HPV vaccine was developed to prevent cervical cancer in women and experts give it credit, along with screening, for lowering cervical cancer rates. Evidence that
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Joining news organizations that have chosen to collaborate rather than fight with the best-known artificial intelligence company, News Corp. has struck a multiyear deal to share news content with OpenAI for both training purposes and to answer questions from users. As part of the deal, OpenAI will have access to both fresh and archived material
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PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Scientists with a Boston aquarium are encouraging beachgoers to report sightings of white sharks this holiday weekend after signs of shark bites were observed on multiple marine mammals. Memorial Day weekend marks the unofficial start of summer in New England, and the region has been experiencing beach weather already. That’s a
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President Joe Biden’s administration is pushing the tech industry and financial institutions to shut down a growing market of abusive sexual images made with artificial intelligence technology. New generative AI tools have made it easy to transform someone’s likeness into a sexually explicit AI deepfake and share those realistic images across chatrooms or social media.
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The N.C. High School Athletic Association baseball and softball regional championship series will be held this week across the state. Regional championships in baseball and softball are a best-of-three series with the higher seed hosting two of the three games, if three games are necessary. Schedules for the regional championships will vary. Games can be
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HAMMANSKRAAL, South Africa (AP) — On days when a municipal truck comes to Hammanskraal to deliver drinking water, a queue of South Africans starts forming early in the morning to fill their buckets. This is not a distant, rural community, but a township on the edge of the administrative capital city of Africa’s most advanced
READ MORESAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is tried to confront the latest in a succession of legal attacks on its digital empire on Thursday as federal judge began to address anticompetitive practices in the app market for smartphones powered by its Android software. The San Francisco court hearing before U.S. District Judge James Donato comes five
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