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April 3, 2025
Google on Thursday asked that a judge, rather than a jury, decide whether it violated U.S. antitrust laws by building a monopoly on the technology that powers online advertising. To bolster its case, the tech giant wrote a multimillion-dollar check to the U.S. government that it says renders moot the government’s best argument for demanding
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PHOENIX (AP) — Blas Sanchez was nearing the end of a 20-year stretch in an Arizona prison when he was leased out to work at Hickman’s Family Farms, which sells eggs that have ended up in the supply chains of huge companies like McDonald’s, Target and Albertsons. While assigned to a machine that churns chicken
READ MOREThe chairman of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Board of Trustees said it would not discuss the school’s athletic budget in closed session Thursday despite saying it would do just that during a special meeting Monday. The about-face came after a complaint was filed Wednesday afternoon in Orange County alleging that the
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By Mark Bergin, WRAL senior mulitplatform producer The NFL released its 2024 regular-season schedule on Wednesday. The Carolina Panthers have eight games at Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte during the upcoming season. The Panthers’ schedule also includes the Nov. 10 game against the New York Giants in Munich, Germany, where they will be considered
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By Brian Murphy, WRAL North Carolina athletics director Bubba Cunningham received high-level support Thursday, just days after of the school’s trustees publicly questioned his management of the department. UNC interim chancellor Lee Roberts, who top legislative leaders have endorsed for the permanent job, defended the Tar Heels’ long-time athletics director, shooting down any suggestion of
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Ocean temperatures that have gone “crazy haywire” hot, especially in the Atlantic, are close to making the current global coral bleaching event the worst in history. It’s so bad that scientists are hoping for a few hurricanes to cool things off. More than three-fifths — 62.9% — of the world’s coral reefs are badly hurting
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department on Thursday formally moved to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug, a historic shift in generations of U.S. drug policy. A proposed rule sent to the federal register recognizes the medical uses of cannabis and acknowledges it has less potential for abuse than some of the nation’s most
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The N.C. High School Athletic Association has postponed the the dual-team boys tennis state championships due to inclement weather. Rain and storms this week have caused some rounds of the dual-team playoffs to be delayed, and with more rain in the forecast, it could create additional scheduling conflicts for tennis. The state championships were scheduled
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The Webb Space Telescope has discovered the earliest known merger of black holes. These two gigantic black holes and their galaxies consolidated just 740 million years after the universe-forming Big Bang. It’s the most distant detection ever made of merging black holes, scientists reported Thursday. One black hole is 50
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Our prediction for this Bundesliga 2 match: Wehen St Pauli Wehen will try to avoid automatic relegation to the German third tier when they face newly-promoted St. Pauli on the last day of the season. Wehen are one point clear of bottom two, but Hansa Rostock are breathing down their neck ahead of the decider.
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