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April 4, 2025
PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona’s highest court has created a pair of AI-generated avatars to deliver news of every ruling issued by the justices, marking what is believed to be the first example in the U.S. of a state court system tapping artificial intelligence to build more human-like characters to connect with the public. A court
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Thousands of employees returned to the Food and Drug Administration’s headquarters Monday to find overflowing parking lots, long security lines and makeshift office spaces without chairs and other basic supplies. The FDA is the latest agency scrambling to meet the Trump administration’s return-to-office mandate, part of a flurry of actions — including
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — As a wounded Democratic Party struggles to regroup, California Gov. Gavin Newsom is holding mostly chummy conversations with prominent conservatives on a new podcast he’s touting as a way for the party to grapple with the MAGA movement’s popularity. In doing so, he appears intent on showing he is more than
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — The videos roll through TikTok in 30-second flashes. Migrants trek in camouflage through dry desert terrain. Dune buggies roar up to the United States-Mexico border barrier. Families with young children pass through gaps in the wall. Helicopters, planes, yachts, tunnels and Jet Skis stand by for potential customers. Laced with emojis,
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HOUSTON (AP) — A Texas midwife has been arrested and accused of providing illegal abortions, marking the first time authorities have filed criminal charges under the state’s near-total abortion ban, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced on Monday. Maria Margarita Rojas has been charged with the illegal performance of an abortion, a second-degree felony, as
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By Carly Haynes, WRAL reporter Raleigh, N.C. — Getting a ticket to see some of the best college basketball teams in the country will cost a pretty penny. The Lenovo Center in Raleigh – formerly named PNC Arena – is hosting the first two rounds of the men’s basketball NCAA Tournament. There are four games
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By The Associated Press UCLA remained No. 1 in The Associated Press women’s basketball Top 25 on Monday one day after the Bruins earned the top overall seed in the NCAA Tournament for the first time in school history. The Bruins head into March Madness with two losses, both coming to Southern Cal during the
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Four new teams joined HighSchoolOT’s statewide Top 25 baseball poll. West Stokes, Leesville Road, Myers Park, South Caldwell are a combined 24-5 overall this season. Area Code Rankings Current Statewide Top 25 Rankings T.C. Roberson (7-1) Ashley (7-0) Metrolina Christian (8-0) Grace Christian of Sanford (7-1) Wake Forest (7-0) Burns (8-1) D.H. Conley (6-1) Southwest
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By Bob Holliday, WRAL Sports contributor North Carolina is headed to Dayton to play San Diego State Tuesday in the NCAA Tournament First Four (9:10 p.m., truTV). The Tar Heels earned the very last at-large bid. How close was it? Selection Committee Vice Chair Keith Gill said if UAB had upset Memphis today, UNC would
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NEW YORK (AP) — Researchers have long wondered how iguanas got to Fiji, a collection of remote islands in the South Pacific. Most modern-day iguanas live in the Americas — thousands of miles and one giant ocean away. They thought maybe they scurried there through Asia or Australia before volcanic activity pushed Fiji so far
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