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October 24, 2024
In an isolated part of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration headquarters known as the 12th-floor “bubble,” chief Anne Milgram made an unusual request of top deputies summoned in March for what she called the “Marijuana Meeting”: Nobody could take notes. Over the next half hour, she broke the news that the Biden administration would soon
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REDMOND, Wash. (AP) — Microsoft wants laptop users to get so comfortable with its artificial intelligence chatbot that it will remember everything you’re doing on your computer and help figure out what you want to do next. The software giant on Monday revealed a new class of AI-imbued personal computers as it confronts heightened competition
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It all came down to the finals doubles match of the day, but Providence’s boys tennis team completed an undefeated season with a N.C. High School Athletic Association 4A state championship. After losing in last year’s final, the Panthers beat reigning state champion Green Hope 5-4 in the 4A dual team championship at the Burlington
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SARASOTA, Fla. (AP) — Trump Media and Technology Group, the owner of former President Donald Trump’s social networking site Truth Social, lost more than $300 million last quarter, according to its first earnings report as a publicly traded company. For the three-month period that ended March 31, the company posted a loss of $327.6 million,
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DALLAS (AP) — They’re six-legged, hairy home invaders that just won’t die, no matter how hard you try. Cockroaches are experts at surviving indoors, hiding in kitchen pipes or musty drawers. But they didn’t start out that way. A new study uses genetics to chart cockroaches’ spread across the globe, from humble beginnings in southeast
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For the first time in school history, South Point has won a boys tennis dual team state championship. South Point defeated Fike 5-3 on Monday at the Burlington Tennis Center, claiming the N.C. High School Athletic Association 3A state championship. The clinching point came in the No. 2 doubles match as Shive Patel, the championship’s
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By Brian Murphy, WRAL Top-seeded North Carolina, led by ACC Coach of the Year Scott Forbes and Defensive Player of the Year Vance Honeycutt, and No. 3 seed NC State begin play in the ACC Baseball Championships on Wednesday. The Tar Heels are expected to be a top-eight seed in the NCAA Tournament, which means
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You may have heard of white noise used to mask background sounds. Now, it has colorful competition. There’s a growing buzz around pink noise, brown noise, green noise — a rainbow of soothing sounds — and their theoretical effects on sleep, concentration and the relaxation response. The science is new with only a few small
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LONDON (AP) — British authorities and the country’s public health service knowingly exposed tens of thousands of patients to deadly infections through contaminated blood and blood products, and hid the truth about the disaster for decades, an inquiry into the U.K.’s infected blood scandal found Monday. An estimated 3,000 people in the United Kingdom are
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People with HIV can breastfeed their babies, as long as they are taking medications that effectively suppress the virus that causes AIDS, a top U.S. pediatricians’ group said Monday in a sharp policy change. The new report from the American Academy of Pediatrics reverses recommendations it had in place since the start of the HIV
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