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January 16, 2025
By DAVE SKRETTA, AP Basketball Writer Tennessee held onto No. 1 in the AP Top 25 for the second consecutive week, though No. 2 Auburn closed the gap as the top five remained unchanged in the men’s college basketball poll Monday. The Volunteers received 50 first-place votes from the national media panel after wins over
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President-elect Donald Trump seemed to entertain the discredited theory that vaccines cause autism as he answered questions from journalists at a press conference Monday at his Mar-a-Lago club. Trump said Robert F. Kennedy Jr., his choice to lead the Department of Health and Human Services who has been an anti-vaccine advocate, would look into the
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By ERIC OLSON AP College Football Writer Heisman Trophy winner Travis Hunter of Colorado was a first-team selection at two spots and a second-team pick at another on The Associated Press All-America team announced Monday. Hunter and Notre Dame safety Xavier Watts were repeat first-team selections, and Boise State’s Ashton Jeanty was the only unanimous
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — New research suggests that Saturn’s rings may be older than they look — possibly as old as the planet. Instead of being a youthful 400 million years old as commonly thought, the icy, shimmering rings could be around 4.5 billion years old just like Saturn, a Japanese-led team reported Monday.
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The N.C. High School Athletic Association is hosting the head coaches of the state qualifying football teams at Carter-Finley Stadium on Monday for the pre-state championship press conference. Posted 2024-12-16T09:26:00-0500 – Updated 2024-12-16T10:43:05-0500 Source: highschoolot.com
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Bells are ringing. Snow is glistening. But you’re bummed out. You could be suffering from a case of the holiday blues, which experts say is not uncommon. A strained relationship with family, for example, can make this time of year pretty lonely. The holidays are expensive, and financial woes can cause major stress. Anxiety about
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Seven of the eight 2024 N.C. High School Athletic Association state finalists have made a championship game before. The one team that has not is Corvian Community School, a charter school from Charlotte. Here is how each finalist has fared in past state championship games. Rolesville, 4A East champion One appearance. 0-1 overall. 2020 4AA:
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CHICAGO (AP) — Ismael El-Amin was driving his daughter to school when a chance encounter gave him an idea for a new way to carpool. On the way across Chicago, El-Amin’s daughter spotted a classmate riding with her own dad as they drove to their selective public school on the city’s North Side. For 40
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HighSchoolOT has released its updated North Carolina high school boys basketball statewide rankings for the 2024-25 season. HSOT has two sets of rankings: a statewide Top 25 and top 15s for each of North Carolina’s six area codes. The area code rankings have already been released and can be found at the links below: HighSchoolOT’s
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ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan on Monday began its last nationwide vaccination campaign for the year to protect 45 million children from polio after a surge in new cases hampered efforts to stop the disease, officials said. According to the World Health Organization, Pakistan and neighboring Afghanistan remain the only two countries where the potentially fatal,
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