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April 4, 2025
Southern Durham hasn’t lost a game this season to a team from North Carolina, and that didn’t change on Monday afternoon in the N.C. High School Athletic Association 3A eastern regional championship game at Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Winston-Salem. The Spartans weathered every run from Swansboro, pulling ahead by double-digits in the fourth
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A bipartisan group of lawmakers on Monday urged the Trump administration to scrap plans to kill more than 450,000 invasive barred owls in West Coast forests as part of efforts to stop the birds from crowding out a smaller type of owl that’s facing potential extinction. The 19 lawmakers — led by Republican Rep. Troy
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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah will become the first state to ban fluoride in public drinking water, despite widespread opposition from dentists and national health organizations. Republican Gov. Spencer Cox said he would sign legislation that bars cities and communities from deciding whether to add the mineral to their water systems. Fluoride strengthens teeth
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Climate change is already causing all sorts of problems on Earth, but soon it will be making a mess in orbit around the planet too, a new study finds. Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology calculated that as global warming caused by burning of coal, oil, gas continues, it may reduce the available space
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Duke freshman guard/forward Cooper Flagg has been voted the Atlantic Coast Conference Men’s Player of the Year and Rookie of the Year, highlighting the 2024-25 All-ACC Men’s Basketball Team and award winners, which were announced Monday, March 10, by the conference office. The 2024-25 All-ACC Team was determined by an 81-member panel consisting of the league’s
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By Brian Murphy, WRAL Carolina Hurricanes coach Rod Brind’Amour said former Hurricanes forward Mikko Rantanen was the first player to leave the franchise because he didn’t like it. Brind’Amour made his comments during an interview with 99.9 The Fan’s Adam Gold on Sunday’s pregame show. Gold included the comments in his postgame “Canes Corner” podcast.
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The Trump administration has unveiled an overhauled cellphone app once used to let migrants apply for asylum, turning it into a system that allows people living illegally in the U.S. to say they want to leave the country voluntarily. The renamed app, announced Monday and now called CBP Home, is part of the administration’s campaign
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Stuart Carmer’s girls basketball team will have a shot at its first-ever state championship after beating North Lincoln in the N.C. High School Athletic Association 3A western regional championship game at Lawrence Joel Veterans Meorial Coliseum in Winston-Salem on Monday afternoon. The Storm led by as many as 13 points in the first half, but
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JERUSALEM (AP) — An American biochemist whose research has helped scientists make inroads into treating coronavirus and HIV has won this year’s Wolf Prize, a prestigious Israeli award in the arts and sciences. Pamela Björkman of the California Institute of Technology won the prize for “offering new hope in the fight against infectious diseases,” the
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SAN JUAN ALOTENANGO, Guatemala (AP) — Guatemala’s Volcano of Fire is erupting, and authorities have evacuated nearly 300 families while warning that another 30,000 people in the area could be at risk. The eruption started overnight. There is no immediate report of casualties. The 12,300-foot (3,763-meter) high volcano is one of the most active in
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