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April 27, 2025
Like most Duke basketball fans, Steve was disheartened at the Blue Devils’ season ending in abrupt fashion in the Final Four. But to soften the blow, he’s still basking in a find that would be a dream experience for any Duke fan – or sports card collector. Steve bagged the only Cooper Flagg card of
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WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — A woman in Australia unknowingly gave birth to a stranger’s baby after she received another patient’s embryo from her in vitro fertilization clinic due to “human error,” the clinic said. The mix-up was discovered in February when the clinic in the city of Brisbane found that the birth parents had
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By DAVE SKRETTA, AP Sports Writer AUGUSTA, Ga. — AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — Just a couple of weeks ago, Scottie Scheffler thought his game was not quite as sharp as he would have wanted it. “Sharp” might be a poor word choice given what happened in December. In any case, Scheffler’s game looked — How
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A new Kansas law and a Florida bill outline policies backed by abortion opponents that critics see as moves toward giving embryos and fetuses the same rights as the women carrying them. The Kansas Legislature’s Republican supermajorities on Thursday overrode Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly’s veto of a bill to require that
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation’s top health agency will undertake a “massive testing and research effort” to determine the cause of autism, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced Thursday. Kennedy, a longtime vaccine critic who has pushed a discredited theory that routine childhood shots cause the developmental disability, said the effort
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A measles outbreak in Knox County, Ohio, grew to 14 cases this week, with the state’s overall count in double digits across four counties. The U.S. has more than double the number of measles cases it saw in all of 2024, and Texas is reporting the majority of them with 505. Texas’ cases include two
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Each year, HighSchoolOT provides extensive playoff projections for all of the NCHSAA’s seeded playoffs. This spring, we are providing those projections for the girls soccer playoffs in all classifications. Projections are dependent on the RPI system, which is updated in real-time rather than once a week. Subscribe to email alerts to be notified when projections
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — President Donald Trump’s administration has been predicting its barrage of tariffs targeting China will push Apple into manufacturing the iPhone in the United States for the first time. But that’s an unlikely scenario even with U.S tariffs now standing at 145% on products made in China — the country where Apple
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NEW YORK (AP) — A top Centers for Disease Control and Prevention official told staff this week to start planning for the agency’s splintering. Several parts of CDC — mostly those devoted to health threats that aren’t infectious — are being spun off into the soon-to-be-created Administration for a Healthy America, the agency official told
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RABAT, Morocco (AP) — Morocco ‘s social security agency said troves of data were stolen from its systems in a cyberattack this week that resulted in personal information being leaked on the messaging app Telegram. The North African kingdom’s social security fund administers pensions and insurance benefits to millions of private sector workers, from assembly
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