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April 26, 2025
By DOUG FERGUSON, AP Golf Writer AUGUSTA, Ga. — AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — For now, there’s another tradition unlike any other at the Masters: The first opportunity in nine months for all the world’s best players to compete against each other. Jon Rahm and Bryson DeChambeau are among the biggest stars in golf that hardly
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MERRICK, N.Y. (AP) — Starting in the 1980s, New York law enforcement and health officials fielded sexual abuse complaints from the young patients of a respected pediatrician who ran his practice out of a basement office in his home on Long Island. But Stuart Copperman was never charged with any crime, and it was only
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NEW YORK (AP) — There’s a micromoon coming up. The full moon will look slightly smaller and dimmer on Saturday night. But the change may be tricky to spot with the naked eye. “It’s a very subtle difference,” said astrophysicist Alain Brizard from Saint Michael’s College in Vermont. The phenomenon happens when the moon is
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The asteroid that once had a small chance of striking Earth and now might slam into the moon resembles a spinning hockey puck, scientists said Tuesday. A team of astronomers used the Gemini South Observatory in Chile to observe asteroid 2024 YR4 in multiple wavelengths as it zoomed away from
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department said Tuesday that it had rolled back an undisclosed number of sweeping funding cuts to U.N. World Food Program emergency projects in 14 impoverished countries, saying it had terminated some of the contracts for life-saving aid by mistake. “There were a few programs that were cut in other countries
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By Aaron Beard, Associated Press Florida is No. 1 in the final Associated Press Top 25 men’s college basketball poll of the 2024-25 season after winning the national championship. The Gators (36-4) received all 61 first-place votes Tuesday, the second year the AP has released its last poll after the completion of the NCAA Tournament.
READ MOREMEXICO CITY (AP) — A 3-year-old girl in western Mexico has died after contracting bird flu in the country’s first confirmed human case of bird flu, Mexican health authorities said Tuesday. Mexico’s Health Ministry said in a statement that the girl from the western state of Durango died early Tuesday after she was hospitalized with
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A group of North Carolina lawmakers have introduced legislation in the state House to ban prop bets on college and Olympic sports in the state, a year after online legal sports betting began. Democratic Reps. Pricey Harrison and Marcia Morey and Republican Reps. Neal Jackson and Mitchell Setzer filed House Bill 828 on Tuesday. Morey,
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NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has said he wants communities to stop fluoridating water, and he is setting the gears of government in motion to help make that happen. Kennedy this week said he plans to tell the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to stop recommending fluoridation in
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PRAGUE (AP) — The Prague Zoo has joined an international effort to ensure the survival of a rare insect that had been considered extinct for more than 80 years. The zoo is among six institutions around the world that have been able to create living conditions for the largest species of flightless insect, the Lord
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