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April 4, 2025
By DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer Louisville, Ky. — Xander Schauffele cashed in at just the right time Sunday, swirling in a 6-foot birdie putt on the final hole to win the PGA Championship for his first major with the lowest score in major championship history. The Olympic gold medalist got something even more valuable
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By BRIAN MAHONEY, AP Basketball Writer NEW YORK — NEW YORK (AP) — When the Indiana Pacers compiled one of the best offensive seasons in NBA history, they were just getting warmed up. For Game 7 of the Eastern Conference semifinals, they delivered something really spectacular. Tyrese Haliburton scored 26 points and the Pacers set
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VAN HORN, Texas (AP) — Ed Dwight, America’s first Black astronaut candidate, finally rocketed into space 60 years later, flying with Jeff Bezos’ rocket company on Sunday. Dwight was an Air Force pilot when President John F. Kennedy championed him as a candidate for NASA’s early astronaut corps. But he wasn’t picked for the 1963
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LONDON (AP) — The final report of the U.K.’s infected blood inquiry will be published Monday, nearly six years after it began looking into how tens of thousands of people contracted HIV or hepatitis from transfusions of tainted blood and blood products in the 1970s and 1980s. The scandal is widely seen as the deadliest
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DENPASAR, Indonesia (AP) — Elon Musk traveled to Indonesia’s resort island of Bali on Sunday to launch Starlink satellite internet service in the world’s largest archipelago nation. Wearing a green Batik shirt, Musk was greeted with a garland of flower petals at a community health clinic in Denpasar, the provincial capital of Bali, where he
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Cummings’ girls track & field team successfully defending its N.C. High School Athletic Association 2A state championship on Friday, and it wasn’t particularly close. The Cavaliers finished the day with 103 points, while second-place N.C. Science & Math finished with 40. Cummings record six first-place finishes on the day, and D’Anna Cotton accounted for four
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By Joseph Ochoa, WRAL multiplatform producer, and Kacy Hintz, WRAL Sports reporter Raleigh, N.C. — Carolina Hurricanes head coach Rod Brind’Amour is staying in Raleigh. The Canes legend agreed to a multi-year contract extension with the team. Assistant coaches Jeff Daniels and Tim Gleason, video coach Chris Huffine and goaltending coach Paul Schonfelder have also
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The matchups and schedule for the N.C. High School Athletic Association boys tennis dual-team championships are now set. Champions will be crowned on Monday at the Burlington Tennis Center. The 1A and 3A championships will start at 9 a.m., with the 2A and 4A championships starting at 12:30 p.m. The matches were moved from Saturday
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CHICAGO (AP) — Sen. Tammy Baldwin, facing a tough reelection fight in one of the races that will determine control of Congress, has made protecting reproductive rights a cornerstone of her campaign, and she’s willing to back that up by pledging to change the Senate filibuster rules if Democrats retain control of the chamber. The
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RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The Virginia State Police investigator seemed puzzled about what the inmate was describing: “unbearable” conditions at a prison so cold that toilet water would freeze over and inmates were repeatedly treated for hypothermia. “How do you get hypothermia in a prison?” the investigator asked. “You shouldn’t.” The exchange, captured on video
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