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April 26, 2025
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Hundreds of Iowa residents have needed rescue from record-setting flooding that has swamped parts of the state, covering buildings up to their rooftops, shutting down major roads, and disrupting basic services like electricity and drinking water. Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds said water in some areas rose above records from 1993, a
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UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations chief on Monday launched global principles to combat online hate and lies and demanded that big tech companies use their power to reduce the harm they are doing to people and societies around the world. Secretary-General António Guterres also demanded that advertising and public relations companies “stop monetizing
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NEW YORK (AP) — Car dealerships in North America are still wrestling with major disruptions that started last week with cyberattacks on a company whose software is used widely in the auto retail sales sector. CDK Global, a company that provides software for thousands of auto dealers in the U.S. and Canada, was hit by
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NASA on Monday canceled a spacewalk at the International Space Station after water leaked from an astronaut’s spacesuit. Astronauts Tracy Dyson and Mike Barratt opened the hatch to the space station’s airlock when Dyson reported water leaking from her spacesuit’s cooling system. The leak occurred when Dyson switched her spacesuit to battery power. The astronauts
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BOSTON (AP) — Big record companies are suing artificial intelligence song-generators Suno and Udio for copyright infringement, alleging that the AI music startups are exploiting the recorded works of artists from Chuck Berry to Mariah Carey. The Recording Industry Association of America announced the lawsuits Monday brought by labels including Sony Music Entertainment, Universal Music
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LONDON (AP) — European Union regulators on Monday leveled their first charges under the bloc’s new digital competition rulebook, accusing Apple of preventing app makers from pointing users to cheaper options outside its App Store. The European Commission said that according to the preliminary findings of its investigation, the restrictions that the iPhone maker imposes
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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Stinging jellyfish, rays with their whip-like tails and sharks on the hunt are some ocean hazards that might typically worry beachgoers. But rip currents are the greatest danger and account for the most beach rescues every year. Six people drowned in rip currents over a recent two-day period in Florida,
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By Brian Murphy, WRAL Holly Springs diver Andrew Capobianco is headed back to the Olympics. Capobianco, a silver medalist at the Tokyo Games in synchronized springboard, won the men’s 3-meter springboard event at the U.S. Olympic diving trials in Nashville on Sunday. “I don’t really have words to describe it,” Capobianco said during an NBC
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Rolesville High School’s Anthony Roberts now has his first college offers. The rising sophomore announced Duke, Troy, and UNC have all extended offers to him in the last week. Roberts stands at 6-foot-2 and 180 pounds. He played junior varsity football at Rolesville as a freshman. On the basketball court, Roberts played varsity as a
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Wake Forest High School dual-threat quarterback Kavon Simmons added two offers over the weekend. Duke and Yale are the latest schools to extend an offer to Simmons, which he announced on social media. Duke is the first FBS school to extend an offer to Simmons. Simmons is a rising senior from the Class of 2025
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