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May 9, 2025
By Louis Fernandez, WRAL Sports Less than four months until the NFL regular season gets started. Less than four months until the Carolina Panthers can hopefully put one of its worst seasons in franchise history behind it. It all gets started with an NFC South road game against the New Orleans Saints. The NFL schedule
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The NFL released schedules for the 2024 season on Wednesday. Here are early thoughts on what’s in store for the Caroilna Panthers this season. Hi, from WRL News headquarters in Raleigh. Your number one source for local news WRL news coverage you can count on. Hey, thanks for watching Wrel News Plus, I’m Grace Holland.
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SAO PAULO (AP) — While flooding that has devastated Brazil’s Rio Grande do Sul state has yet to subside, another scourge has spread across the region: disinformation on social media that has hampered desperate efforts to get aid to hundreds of thousands in need. Among fake postings that have stirred outrage: That official agencies aren’t
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The N.C. Coaches Association has released the rosters for the 2024 East-West All-Star boys and girls basketball games, which include five HSOT first team all-state selections. Richmond’s Paul McNeil Jr. is slated to suit up for the East boys’ team while Grimsley’s Richard Goods and Asheboro’s Jerquarius Stanback are on the West’s roster. McNeil Jr.
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Climate change will be a lesser priority in Florida and largely disappear from state statutes under legislation signed Wednesday by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis that also bans power-generating wind turbines offshore or near the state’s lengthy coastline. Critics said the measure made law by the former Republican presidential hopeful ignores the
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WASHINGTON (AP) — America’s foreign adversaries will again seek to influence the upcoming U.S. elections, top security officials warned members of the Senate Wednesday, harnessing the latest innovations in artificial intelligence to spread online disinformation, mislead voters and undermine trust in democracy. But the U.S. has greatly improved its ability to safeguard election security and
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By MARK LONG AP Sports Writer AMELIA ISLAND, Fla. (AP) — With the future of the Atlantic Coast Conference in question, commissioner Jim Phillips expressed optimism Wednesday that the league can still be salvaged. The path forward is unclear, but not without hope. “You have to stay optimistic, and you work through these things,” Phillips
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GENEVA (AP) — U.S. officials raised concerns about China’s “misuse of AI” while Beijing’s representatives rebuked Washington over “restrictions and pressure” on artificial intelligence, the governments said separately Wednesday, a day after a meeting in Geneva on the technology. Summaries of the closed-door talks between high-level envoys, which covered AI’s risks and ways to manage
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NEW YORK (AP) — The number of U.S. fatal overdoses fell last year, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data posted Wednesday. Agency officials noted the data is provisional and could change after more analysis, but that they still expect a drop when the final counts are in. It would be only the
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DALLAS (AP) — Scientists once thought of dinosaurs as sluggish, cold-blooded creatures. Then research suggested that some could control their body temperature, but when and how that shift came about remained a mystery. Now, a new study estimates that the first warm-blooded dinosaurs may have roamed the Earth about 180 million years ago, about halfway
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