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April 2, 2025
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Australia’s House of Representatives on Wednesday passed a bill that would ban children younger than 16 years old from social media, leaving it to the Senate to finalize the world-first law. The major parties backed the bill that would make platforms including TikTok, Facebook, Snapchat, Reddit, X and Instagram liable for
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WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — You either adjust to the pace of Andy Muse’s Mount Tabor boys basketball team or you pay the price. Lake Norman chose the former on Tuesday. In a battle of two top 25 teams in what was just the second game of the year for both, the No. 5 Wildcats turned things
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Harrells Christian’s boys basketball team overcame an eight point deficit with 2:30 left to take down Greenfield School on the road. Greenfield School entered the night as the No. 20 team in the HSOT Statewide Top 25. With the 74-71 win, Harrells improved its perfect start to 5-0 overall. The Crusaders were led by the
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RALEIGH, N.C. – After years of going to battle together on some of college basketball’s biggest stages, Scott Wood and Richard Howell found themselves in unfamiliar territory. The former N.C. State basketball roommates from the early 2010’s lined up across from one another on Tuesday night as first-year high school coaches. Wood’s Broughton Capitals used
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MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Wayne Holdsworth became an advocate for banning Australian children younger than 16 from social media because his son took his own life after falling victim to an online sextortion scam. Mac Holdsworth died last year at his Melbourne family home at the age of 17 after a 47-year-old Sydney man who
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President-elect Donald Trump will return to power next year with a raft of technological tools at his disposal that would help deliver his campaign promise of cracking down on immigration — among them, surveillance and artificial intelligence technology that the Biden administration already uses to help make crucial decisions in tracking, detaining and ultimately deporting
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By Brian Murphy, WRAL North Carolina coach Mack Brown said Monday that he would know when it was time to leave the Tar Heels program to someone else. UNC made the decision for him Tuesday. The university announced Tuesday morning that Brown, the program’s all-time leader in coaching wins, would not return for the 2025
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Millions of obese Americans would get access to popular weekly injectables that would help them shed pounds quickly if a $ 35 billion proposal from the Biden administration is blessed by President-elect Donald Trump. The rule, unveiled Tuesday by the Health and Human Services Department, would require Medicare and Medicaid to cover
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President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for the nation’s top health job, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has vowed to allow wider distribution of raw milk across America. But the detection of bird flu virus in unpasteurized milk sold in California stores underscores what health experts say are the known and potential risks. “You have to assume that
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NEW YORK (AP) — It’s almost that time of year: Spotify is gearing up to release its annual Wrapped, personalized recaps of users’ listening habits and year in audio. Spotify has been giving its listeners breakdowns of their data since 2016. And each year, it’s become a bigger production — and internet sensation. Spotify said
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