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May 9, 2025
After two months, Montgomery Central High School found its next head football coach in Jack Carpenter. Carpenter had been the defensive coordinator on staff under Chris Metzger, who announced his departure in November. Montgomery Central shared the news of Carpenter’s promotion to its Facebook account but provided minimal details. Carpenter is a class of 2016
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LONDON (AP) — Advanced artificial intelligence systems have the potential to create extreme new risks, such as fueling widespread job losses, enabling terrorism or running amok, experts said in a first-of-its-kind international report Wednesday cataloging the range of dangers posed by the technology. The International Scientific Report on the Safety of Advanced AI is being
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By The Associated Press PITTSBURGH — PITTSBURGH (AP) — Jaland Lowe scored 18 points, Zack Austin added 15 points and a season-high tying five blocks to help Pittsburgh beat North Carolina 73-65 on Tuesday night. Ishmael Leggett also scored 15 for Pitt (14-6, 5-4 ACC) and Cameron Corhen scored 14 points on 5-of-6 shooting. Lowe
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By ALLAN KREDA, Associated Press NEW YORK — NEW YORK (AP) — Andrei Svechnikov scored twice and added an assist, Frederik Andersen made 22 saves, and the Carolina Hurricanes beat the New York Rangers 4-0 on Tuesday night. Sebastian Aho and Seth Jarvis also scored for the Hurricanes, who won for the fifth time in
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NEW YORK (AP) — The superstar run for Nvidia’s stock the last few years has been astonishing. So was its tumble Monday, which caused $595 billion in wealth to vanish. That’s about as much as PepsiCo, McDonalds, Starbucks and Target are worth, combined. Mostly known only in gaming and crypto circles a few years ago,
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Chinese artificial intelligence startup company DeepSeek stunned markets and AI experts with its claim that it built its immensely popular chatbot at a fraction of the cost of those made by American tech titans. That immediately called into question the billions of dollars U.S. tech companies are spending on a massive expansion of energy-hungry data
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A yearlong outbreak of tuberculosis in the Kansas City, Kansas area has taken local experts aback, even if it does not appear to be the largest outbreak of the disease in U.S. history as a state health official claimed last week. “We would expect to see a handful of cases every year,” said Dr. Dana
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Calling Robert F. Kennedy Jr. a “predator” who is addicted to power, Caroline Kennedy urged the U.S. Senate in a Tuesday letter to reject the nomination of her cousin to be President Donald Trump’s health secretary. In a letter to Senators, Ms. Kennedy, who previously served as a U.S. ambassador to Australia
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NEW YORK (AP) — X is teaming up with Visa to soon offer a system for real-time payments on the social media platform — signaling some progress in a yearslong vision from billionaire owner Elon Musk to create an “everything app.” Visa is the first partner for the platform’s “X Money Account” service, which is
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Apex, N.C. — The Carolina Hurricanes are working to grow hockey in the Triangle. The team and the NHL are building two street hockey rinks at Apex Community Park. Construction is underway. The project is a culmination of work between the team and the NHL’s Industry Growth Fund, through which $550,000 was provided to fund
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