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October 19, 2024
The artificial intelligence startup Perplexity AI has raised tens of millions of dollars from the likes of Jeff Bezos and other prominent tech investors for its mission to rival Google in the business of searching for information. But its AI-driven search chatbot is already facing challenges as some news media companies object to its business
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West Cabarrus senior Drew Waller has been named the Gatorade North Carolina Boys Soccer Player of the Year, the organization announced on Friday morning. Waller is a 6-foot-2, 185-pound forward who helped West Cabarrus to a 17-7-1 record this fall. It was the best season in West Cabarrus’ short school history, which resulted in an
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For the first time, Metrolina Christian is the No. 1 team in the final HighSchoolOT statewide top 25 baseball rankings, taking the top spot in the final rankings after winning the N.C. Independent Schools Athletic Association 4A championship and ending the year with an 29-2 record. The Warriors are just in front of five other
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Southern Durham High School’s class of 2027 wide receiver received a verbal scholarship offer from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill football program on Thursday. Southern Durham competed in UNC’s King of the Hill 7-on-7 tournament during the day. Dillon stood out at the event by making multiple highlight catches. The 6-foot-2, 175-pound
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court unanimously upheld access to a drug used in the majority of U.S. abortions on Thursday, though abortion opponents say the ruling won’t be the last word in the fight over mifepristone. The narrow decision came two years after the high court overturned the nationwide right to abortion. Rather than
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Photos of a white bison calf in Yellowstone National Park have generated excitement as well as questions: How does that happen? A park visitor said she took the photographs in the park earlier this month, showing a fuzzy white youngster being nuzzled by its dark brown mother. Park officials said this week
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SEATTLE (AP) — The United States granted the Makah Indian Tribe in Washington state a long-sought waiver Thursday that helps clear the way for its first sanctioned whale hunts since 1999 and sets the stage for renewed clashes with animal rights activists. The Makah, a tribe of 1,500 people on the northwestern tip of the
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Wildlife experts have hit a dead end in their quest to determine how a gray wolf arrived in southern Michigan for the first time in more than 100 years. The wolf was killed in January by a hunter who told investigators that he had mistaken it for a coyote. It was a shock: While gray
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For the first time, Garner is the No. 1 team in the final HighSchoolOT statewide top 25 softball rankings, taking the top spot after winning the N.C. High School Athletic Association 4A championship and ending the year with an 28-2 record. The Trojans are just in front of two other state champions, 3A champ South
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By DOUG FERGUSON, AP Golf Writer PINEHURST, N.C. — PINEHURST, N.C. (AP) — Michael McGowan had the honor of hitting the opening tee shot in the U.S. Open on Thursday and it didn’t take long to realize what kind of test awaited at Pinehurst No. 2. The tee shot, packed with nerves of being in
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