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May 12, 2025
Written by JOSH DUBOW, Professional Football Writer for the Associated Press. LAS VEGAS The Pro Football Hall of Fame has officially added a member from every NFL team to its roster, including Las Vegas’ own. On Thursday night at NFL Honors, it was announced that Julius Peppers and Andre Johnson were the first players drafted
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Rewritten: Written by AARON BEARD, AP Basketball Writer. The sixteenth-ranked Virginia Tech team did not experience any last-minute suspense as they defeated the third-ranked North Carolina State once more. On Thursday evening, Elizabeth Kitley scored 25 points and grabbed 13 rebounds, while the Hokies made 11 shots from beyond the arc to defeat the Wolfpack
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A woman from Brooklyn who admitted to committing fraud in relation to multiple schemes during the pandemic has been given a sentence of three years probation and ordered to pay $650,000 in penalties on Thursday. According to prosecutors, Chanette Lewis, who is 32 years old, utilized her position at a call center, which is part
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A court has granted $1 million to climate scientist Michael Mann in a lawsuit he filed against two conservative writers 12 years ago. They had likened his portrayal of global warming to that of a convicted sex offender. According to Mann, a climate science professor at the University of Pennsylvania, his graph first appeared in
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Ten baby African penguins have successfully hatched at a science museum in San Francisco within the past year, as part of a conservation initiative for the at-risk species. In November 2022, the penguins started to hatch, marking the end of a four-year span with no new chicks. This continued until January of this year, as
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A legislator in Nebraska is proposing steps to safeguard the state from cyber threats by suggesting the hiring of a hacker. On Thursday, State Senator Loren Lippincott proposed a bill to the government committee of the Legislature. The bill aims to allocate $200,000 to the Nebraska State Patrol for the purpose of hiring an “ethical
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The United States’ cybersecurity agency announced a new initiative on Thursday to enhance election security across the states. The program aims to strengthen local offices and reassure voters that this year’s presidential elections will be secure and accurate. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency officials will be presenting the program to the National Association
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The city of Chicago is dealing with a major cyberattack that has been ongoing for over a week at a prominent children’s hospital. This has resulted in doctors and nurses being unable to access electronic patient records and parents struggling to communicate with their children’s healthcare providers. On Thursday, representatives from Lurie Children’s Hospital stated
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The Federal Communications Commission has banned robocalls that use artificially generated voices, making it clear that using this technology to deceive individuals and manipulate voters will not be acceptable. The decision, which was reached unanimously, focuses on automated phone calls created using voice-cloning technology and falls under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act. This law was
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google on Thursday introduced a free artificial intelligence app that will enable people to rely on technology instead of their own brains to write, interpret what they’re reading and deal with a variety of other task in their lives. Google is replacing its Bard chatbot, which was launched a year ago,
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