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January 12, 2025
A threat of thunderstorms, some of which could be severe, means there could be some schedule changes for high school football games on Friday night. Week 2 games are slated to be held on Friday evening, with most kicking off at either 7 p.m. or 7:30 p.m. Thunderstorms began forming early Friday afternoon and could
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Artificial intelligence researchers said Friday they have deleted more than 2,000 web links to suspected child sexual abuse imagery from a dataset used to train popular AI image-generator tools. The LAION research dataset is a huge index of online images and captions that’s been a source for leading AI image-makers such as Stable Diffusion and
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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Oregon’s first-in-the-nation experiment with drug decriminalization is coming to an end Sunday, when possessing small amounts of hard drugs will once again become a crime. The Democratic-controlled Legislature passed the recriminalization law in March, overhauling a measure approved by 58% of voters in 2020 that made possessing illicit drugs like heroin
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By Brian Murphy, WRAL Charlotte 49ers North Carolina Tar Heels ACC Network | Saturday, September 7th 3:30 PM EDT North Carolina starting quarterback Max Johnson will miss the rest of the 2024 season after suffering a broken right leg in Thursday night’s season-opening victory at Minnesota. Johnson, a transfer from Texas A&M, underwent surgery on
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SAO PAULO (AP) — A Brazilian Supreme Court justice on Friday ordered the suspension of Elon Musk’s social media giant X in Brazil after the tech billionaire refused to name a legal representative in the country, according to a copy of his decision. The move further escalates the monthslong feud between the two men over
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CHICAGO (AP) — Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s vow to promote in vitro fertilization by forcing health insurance companies or the federal government to pay for the treatments is at odds with the actions of much of his own party. Yet his surprising announcement Thursday reveals the former president’s realization that GOP stances on abortion
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CAIRO (AP) — It was another day of war in Gaza, another day of what 19-year-old Palestinian TikTok star Medo Halimy called his “Tent Life.” As he often did in videos documenting life’s mundane absurdities in the enclave, Halimy on Monday walked to his local internet cafe — rather, a tent with Wi-Fi where displaced
READ MOREU.S. regulators have cleared a third updated COVID-19 vaccine for this fall, shots made by Novavax Inc. Already, Pfizer and Moderna are shipping shots modified to better match more recent strains of the ever-evolving coronavirus. Those doses can be used in adults and children as young as 6 months. Friday, the Food and Drug Administration
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Before I hit the road to Hough, here are some final thoughts on the biggest three games in North Carolina in week two of play tonight. In Cornelius, there will be a battle of two of the most talented 1-0 teams in the state: No. 18 Myers Park at No. 15 Hough. Close by, No.
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High school athletes in North Carolina may be able to profit off their name, image, and likeness in the near future as the North Carolina State Board of Education is expected to vote on a new NIL policy next week. The State Board of Education is expected to receive a presentation about the proposed rules
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