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April 4, 2025
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A rocket launched by North Korea to deploy the country’s second spy satellite exploded shortly after liftoff Monday, state media reported, in a setback for leader Kim Jong Un’s hopes to operate multiple satellites to better monitor the U.S. and South Korea. Monday’s failed launch came hours after leaders of
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PHOENIX (AP) — Terrified of being assaulted in a shelter, Pearl Marion couch surfed with family members and friends during last year’s blistering summer so she didn’t have to sleep outdoors. This year, the 65-year-old woman plans to spend Phoenix’s dangerously hot summer nights in a former cafeteria at the city’s main library, sleeping in
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PHOENIX (AP) — Priscilla Orr, 75, was living in her old white Kia in a supermarket parking lot last summer after telling her family she lost her money and home to a romance scam. But the car broke down, and the air conditioner stopped working, leaving her vulnerable to the dangerous desert heat. Orr collapsed
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Throughout the spring and summer, we’ll be delivering football preview content to HSOT Insiders. Today is a look at the teams that won the most one-score games in the 2023 season. All football fans know that there is a large amount of variance over year-to-year. At the NFL level, researchers have found that teams who
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s federal archaeology agency on Monday accused the conservative-governed city of Guanajuato of mistreating one of the country’s famous mummified 19th century bodies. The National Institute of Anthropology and History, INAH, said that during recent renovations at the museum where the mummified bodies are on permanent display, the arm of one
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On Monday, many in the Triangle took time to remember professional golfer and Raleigh native Grayson Murray. In the final round of the Charles Schwab Challenge Sunday, players and caddies sported red and black ribbons, honoring his life and his Carolina Hurricanes fandom. On Saturday, the golf world learned that Murray took his own life
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By Joseph Ochoa and Ryan Bisesi, WRAL On Sunday, The NCAA Division I Baseball Committee announced Raleigh and Chapel Hill as regional sites for the NCAA Baseball Championship Tournament. The University of North Carolina Tar Heels and North Carolina State Wolfpack received bids to the tournament for being host cities for the regional rounds. The
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — The number of heat-related howler monkeys deaths in Mexico has risen to 157, the government said, with a tragically small number of the primates treated or recovering. Meanwhile, an animal park in northern Mexico confirmed it has received reports that at least a hundred parrots, bats and other animals have died,
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By TIM REYNOLDS AP Basketball Writer Bill Walton, who starred for John Wooden’s UCLA Bruins before becoming a Hall of Famer for his NBA career and one of the biggest stars in basketball broadcasting, died Monday, the league announced on behalf of his family. Walton, who had a prolonged fight with cancer, was 71. He
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GENEVA (AP) — Member countries kicked off the World Health Organization’s annual assembly on Monday with hopes of improving global readiness for deadly outbreaks like COVID-19, after an ambitious “pandemic treaty” ran aground last week. Health officials are racing to get the world to agree to new ways to prepare for and fight an inevitable
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