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April 26, 2025
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United States signed a memorandum with several of the world’s biggest social media companies on Thursday aimed at preventing the use of their platforms for the distribution of synthetic drugs. U.S. Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield told a signing ceremony that “t echnology companies have a critical role to play in both
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is awarding nearly $2 billion in grants to General Motors, Stellantis and other carmakers to help restart or expand electric vehicle manufacturing and assembly sites in eight states, including the presidential battlegrounds of Michigan, Pennsylvania and Georgia. The Energy Department will issue grants totaling $1.7 billion to create or
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GRAFTON, Mass. (AP) — When two octogenarian buddies named Nick discovered that ChatGPT might be stealing and repurposing a lifetime of their work, they tapped a son-in-law to sue the companies behind the artificial intelligence chatbot. Veteran journalists Nicholas Gage, 84, and Nicholas Basbanes, 81, who live near each other in the same Massachusetts town,
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By Brian Murphy, WRAL Heels4Life, North Carolina’s collective for name, image and likeness for the Tar Heels’ football program, is closing. And a new all-sports collective – Old Well Management – will begin operations on Aug. 1. Heels4Life will be closing over the next week and all accounts, subscriptions and data from its platform will be
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Beginning next season, the indirect free position will be eliminated in high school girls lacrosse when a minor foul is committed by the defense in the 12-meter fan. Now, the player who is fouled will be allowed to shoot from a free position on the 12-meter fan. This revision to Rule 9-1 PENALTIES was one
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UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The world’s population is expected to grow by more than 2 billion people in the next decades and peak in the 2080s at around 10.3 billion, a new report by the United Nations said Thursday. The report — released on World Population Day — says the global population is then expected
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BERLIN (AP) — Germany will bar the use of critical components made by Chinese companies Huawei and ZTE in core parts of the country’s 5G networks in two steps starting in 2026, the nation’s top security official said Thursday. Germany, which has Europe’s biggest economy, has long mulled what to do about components made by
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An incoming defensive lineman to Asheville School has committed to Dartmouth. Peter Owolabi announced his decision to play for the Big Green on his X account on July 8. Dartmouth has a Division I FCS program that competes in the Ivy League. Owolabi is from Canada and previously played at Mt. Zion Prep in Maryland.
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NEW YORK (AP) — The nearly complete fossilized remains of a 161-million-year-old stegosaurus discovered in Colorado in 2022 will be auctioned by Sotheby’s in New York next week, auction house officials said. The dinosaur that Sotheby’s calls Apex stands 11 feet (3.3 meters) tall and measures 27 feet (8.2 meters) nose to tail, according to
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The United States Air Force Academy’s football program is having success recruiting North Carolina’s class of 2025. In addition to the Falcons receiving a commitment from Reidsville High School 1,000-yard rusher Jariel Cobb, Air Force has also received a pledge from Cleveland High School defensive back Ronalon Renwick. Air Force is a Division I FBS
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