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November 15, 2024
By WRAL Staff The NC State women’s basketball team is moving on after a 77-67 win against Stanford on Friday night in the NCAA Tournament in Portland. NC State (29-7) got 29 points from junior guard Aziaha James. Two other Wolfpack players scored in double figures: Saniya Rivres (13 points) and Zoe Brooks (12 points).
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The largest uranium producer in the United States is ramping up work just south of Grand Canyon National Park on a long-contested project that largely has sat dormant since the 1980s. The work is unfolding as global instability and growing demand drive uranium prices higher. The Biden administration and dozens of other countries have pledged
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TOKYO (AP) — Japanese government health officials raided a factory Saturday producing health supplements that they say have killed at least five people and hospitalized more than 100 others. About a dozen people wearing dark suits solemnly walked into the Osaka plant of Kobayashi Pharmaceutical Co. in the raid shown widely on Japanese TV news,
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Middle Creek baseball shook off an uncharacteristic losing streak with its biggest offensive outburst in nearly two weeks. The Mustangs pushed across five runs in the fourth inning of their opening game at the Bobby Murray Invitational, and it was enough to secure them a 5-2 win over Millbrook. Ryan Morris kept the Wildcat bats
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For the seventh time in ten wins, Southwest Guilford hung double figures on the scoreboard. The Cowboys came out swinging on the first day of the Bobby Murray Invitational at Millbrook High School to the tune of an 11-1 win in five innings over Athens Drive. Jack Bliven grounded into a fielder’s choice in the
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NIAGARA FALLS, Ontario (AP) — Ontario’s Niagara Region has declared a state of emergency as it prepares to welcome up to a million visitors for the solar eclipse in early April. The total solar eclipse on April 8 will be the first to touch the province since 1979, and Niagara Falls was declared by National
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The sun sets over Phoenix during a heat wave last July. | Matt York/AP By Robin Bravender 03/29/2024 05:47 PM EDT a one-page form with the Commerce Department 10 days before they do so, thanks to a law from the 1970s that requires reporting of efforts to modify the weather. That’s not enough, say academics
READ MOREThen-Secretary of Energy Steven Chu (right) and then-President Barack Obama in February 2009. In a newly released interview, Chu said Obama should have used “the power of the presidency” to win lawmakers’ votes. | Ron Sachs/AFP via Getty Images By Robin Bravender, Timothy Cama and Kevin Bogardus 03/29/2024 05:47 PM EDT Oral histories produced by
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Climate change is making giant heat waves crawl slower across the globe and they are baking more people for a longer time with higher temperatures over larger areas, a new study finds. Since 1979, global heat waves are moving 20% more slowly — meaning more people stay hot longer — and they are happening 67%
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WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s President Andrzej Duda on Friday vetoed a law that would have allowed over-the-counter access to the morning-after pill for girls and women ages 15 and above, his office said. Duda said he was concerned about the health of minors and heeding the voices of parents. A statement by Duda’s office
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