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May 9, 2025
WASHINGTON (AP) — A woman who received a pig kidney transplant is back on dialysis because surgeons had to remove the gradually failing organ after just 47 days. Lisa Pisano was the second person to receive a kidney from a gene-edited pig, and NYU Langone Health announced that she is stable after an operation to
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Shares of Trump Media & Technology Group closed lower Friday after swinging wildly over the course of the day following the conviction of former President Donald Trump in his hush money trial. After the U.S. stock markets closed Thursday, a New York jury found Trump guilty of falsifying business records in a scheme to illegally
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By WRAL and The Associated Press UConn 4, Duke 1 NORMAN, Okla. — Ryan Hyde broke a tie with a two-run single in the sixth inning to help UConn beat Duke 4-1 on Friday in each team’s opening game of the Division I baseball tournament. Freshman Tyler Minick hit a solo home run in the
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By WRAL Staff Evansville knocked off nationally seeded East Carolina 4-1 in the first game of the Greenville regional Friday afternoon. East Carolina, which grabbed the No. 16 seed, now faces a long road to winning the regional. Wake Forest and VCU meet in Friday’s second game. East Carolina will face the loser in an
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By WRAL Staff Chapel Hill, N.C. — LSU 4, Wofford 3 Steven Milam hit two solo home runs, including a game-deciding shot to right-center in the bottom of the ninth, and the defending champion LSU Tigers overcame a two-run deficit to beat Wofford 4-3 in their NCAA Division I baseball tournament opening game on Friday.
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WAYNESBORO, Ga. (AP) — U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm on Friday called for more nuclear reactors to be built in the United States and worldwide. But the CEO of the Georgia utility that just finished the first two scratch-built American reactors in a generation at a cost of nearly $35 billion says his company isn’t
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal health regulators are questioning the safety and evidence behind the first bid to use MDMA, the mind-altering club drug, as a treatment for PTSD, part of a decadeslong effort by advocates to move psychedelic drugs into the medical mainstream. The Food and Drug Administration posted its initial review of the drug
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Google said Friday it has made “more than a dozen technical improvements” to its artificial intelligence systems after its retooled search engine was found spitting out erroneous information. The tech company unleashed a makeover of its search engine in mid-May that frequently provides AI-generated summaries on top of search results. Soon after, social media users
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By TOM NOUVIAN, Associated Press PARIS — PARIS (AP) — Sixth-seeded Andrey Rublev berated his own behavior after he was knocked out of the French Open by Matteo Arnaldi 7-6 (6), 6-2, 6-4 in the third round on Friday. Rublev showed frustration throughout over his lack of precision, committing 37 unforced errors and four double
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By WRAL Staff The North Carolina State Wolfpack are one of 16 hosts nationwide for college baseball regional play this weekend. NC State is the No. 10 national seed with South Carolina, James Madison and Bryant coming to play at Doak Field. North Carolina and East Carolina are also host sites, while Duke will travel
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