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May 9, 2025
By Louis Fernandez, WRAL Sports As you turned the corner at Kenan Memorial Stadium on Tuesday, the normal chants of “Go Heels”were replaced with renditions of the Beatles’ “Hey Jude” and cheers of “Hail, Hail.” Chapel Hill morphed into an odd amalgamation of Ethiad Stadium Celtic Park. The town hosted Premier League powerhouse Manchester City
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CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — A surprise eruption in Yellowstone National Park shot steam, water and dark-colored rock and dirt high into the sky Tuesday and sent sightseers running for safety. The hydrothermal explosion happened around 10 a.m. in Biscuit Basin, a collection of hot springs a couple miles north of the famous Old Faithful Geyser.
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NEW YORK (AP) — The Federal Trade Commission has ordered information from eight companies that the agency says offer products and services that use personal data to set prices based on a shopper’s individual characteristics. In a Tuesday announcement, the FTC said it was seeking to better understand the “opaque market” of “surveillance pricing” practices
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google’s corporate parent Alphabet Inc. delivered another quarter of steady growth amid an AI-driven shift in the ubiquitous search engine that is the foundation of its internet empire. The second-quarter report released Tuesday showed that Google is still reeling in advertisers on the heels of the May introduction of an artificial-intelligence
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WASHINGTON (AP) — On Sunday, the Earth sizzled to the hottest day ever measured by humans, yet another heat record shattered in the past couple of years, according to the European climate service Copernicus Tuesday. Copernicus’ preliminary data shows that the global average temperature Sunday was 17.09 degrees Celsius (62.76 degrees Fahrenheit), beating the record
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate will consider legislation this week that aims to protect children from dangerous online content, moving forward with what could become the first sweeping new regulation of the tech industry in decades. Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced Tuesday that he will bring the bipartisan bill up in the Senate, with hopes
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The fourth-annual HighSchoolOT baseball all-state team features 31 athletes making an appearance on the team for at least the second time, led by two three-time selections: Wayne County Day’s Cameron Aycock and East Rowan’s Cobb Hightower. There is a 25-player first, second, and third team, each with at least two catchers, six infielders, four outfielders,
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The fourth-annual HighSchoolOT softball all-state team features 47 athletes making an appearance on the team for at least the second time, led by 12 three-time selections. They are: Southern Nash’s Anna Dickinson, Charlotte Christian’s Anna Hinde, Wayne Christian’s Ella Fox, Northwest Guilford’s Bel Varadi, Camden County’s Carlyn Tanis, West Rowan’s Emma Clarke, Washington’s Emma Orr, Panther
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LONDON (AP) — Google is dropping plans to eliminate cookies from its Chrome web browser, making a sudden U-turn on four years of work to phase out a technology that helps businesses tracks users online. The company had been working on retiring third-party cookies, which are snippets of code that log user information, as part
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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — On a recent morning in an Afro-Caribbean community in northeast Puerto Rico, Dr. Pedro Juan Vázquez went door-to-door as part of his medical rounds. He greeted the elderly residents the town with a cheerful “Good afternoon!” and a smile and casually asked if they’d like their vitals taken. Many
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