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January 23, 2025
NEW YORK (AP) — Elon Musk’s X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, has named a new head of safety nine months after the last executive to hold the position departed from the social media company. X said that company veteran Kylie McRoberts will oversee the global safety team. The platform also announced that Yale
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Brown rats are the undisputed winners of the real rat race. New research suggests that they crawled off ships arriving in North America earlier than previously thought and out-competed rodent rivals – going on to infuriate and disgust generations of city-dwellers and becoming so ubiquitous that they’re known as common rats, street rats or sewer
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NEW YORK (AP) — New U.S. hepatitis C infections dropped slightly in 2022, a surprising improvement after more than a decade of steady increases, federal health officials said Wednesday. Experts are not sure whether the 6% decline is a statistical blip or the start of a downward trend. Seeing 2023 and 2024 data, when it’s
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BOSTON (AP) — In a scathing indictment of Microsoft corporate security and transparency, a Biden administration-appointed review board issued a report Tuesday saying “a cascade of errors” by the tech giant let state-backed Chinese cyber operators break into email accounts of senior U.S. officials including Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo. The Cyber Safety Review Board, created
READ MOREOne of the state’s most star-studded spring break tournament fields saw Ledford and T.C. Roberson both came from behind to escape the winners bracket. Weather permitting, the Panthers and Rams will square off in Wednesday’s Cougar Diamond Classic title game at South Brunswick. Ledford 4, Davie County 3 The Panthers held off the War Eagles
READ MOREThe inaugural HighSchoolOT girls wrestling all-state team is here. The first-of-its-kind team has a first team and a second team with two wrestlers per weight class, then 12 honorable mention wrestlers regardless of weight class. Since only the N.C. High School Athletic Association sanctions girls wrestling and has only one open classification, the top two
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HUALIEN, Taiwan (AP) — The strongest earthquake in a quarter-century rocked Taiwan during the morning rush hour Wednesday, killing nine people, sending others scrambling out the windows of damaged buildings and halting train service throughout the island. A tsunami warning was triggered but later lifted. The quake, which also injured hundreds, was centered off the
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Belgian family of four was on their fourth trip to the United States. They had been dreading the long line at passport control when they entered the country but had heard about a new app they could use to ease their way and decided to give it a shot. Within minutes,
READ MOREOne of the state’s most star-studded spring break tournament fields saw Ledford and T.C. Roberson both came from behind to escape the winners bracket. Weather permitting, the Panthers and Rams will square off in Wednesday’s Cougar Diamond Classic title game at South Brunswick. Ledford 4, Davie County 3 The Panthers held off the War Eagles
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By Brett Knese, WRAL reporter The NC State Wolfpack women’s basketball team arrived in Cleveland on Tuesday to prepare for its first Final Four game in 26 years. Before departing for the Buckeye State, Wolfpack fans gathered outside of Reynolds Coliseum in Raleigh on Tuesday afternoon to send the team off to Cleveland. “It was
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