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April 30, 2025
By RONALD BLUM, AP Baseball Writer NEW YORK — NEW YORK (AP) — Juan Soto, Blake Snell and Clay Holmes debut for new teams, Paul Skenes makes his first opening-day start at age 22 and Sandy Alcántara returns from Tommy John surgery. A week after the defending champion Los Angeles Dodgersswept an opening two-game series
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University of Melbourne hydrology professor Dongryeol Ryu and his collaborator Ki-Weon Seo were on a train to visit Ryu’s family when they found something startling. Stopped at a station for technical issues, Seo had pulled out his computer to pass the time with some work when a result popped up in their data that Ryu
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said this week it will retest 4,000 DNA samples and open an internal investigation after learning that it used potentially flawed test kits for eight months. Sheriff’s officials said Wednesday that a test kit manufacturer sent a letter in August warning the department to stop
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The fourth-annual HighSchoolOT girls indoor track & field all-state team features 13 athletes making at least a second appearance on the team, including the team’s first eight-time selection (Cummings’ D’Anna Cotton) and first seven-time selection and four-time first-teamer (Cardinal Gibbons’ Hannah Rae Shaffer). The all-state team is based on either N.C. High School Athletic Association
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The fourth-annual HighSchoolOT boys indoor track & field all-state team features 12 athletes making a second or third appearance on the team, including one that is now a three-time first-team selection. The all-state team is based on either N.C. High School Athletic Association championship performance or the N.C. Independent Schools Athletic Association invitational, which functions
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How things been going? We haven’t talked to you since day one busy with the other sports, right? A little bit, yeah, it’s good. Yeah, it’s a fun team to coach, you know, it’s the one thing that, uh, when you come off a season where you didn’t like the results, you know, you’re short
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By Bob Holliday, WRALSportsFan contributor Cooper Flagg’s time at Duke has flown by. In a matter of weeks, his season will end and many believe he’ll enter the NBA Draft, likely becoming the No. 1 pick. This Duke team has had great success, compiling a historic 19-1 conference record, 33-3 overall. The Blue Devils win
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GENEVA (AP) — The head of leading vaccines group Gavi alliance said Thursday it has not received confirmation from the U.S. government that it might be losing more than $1 billion in pledged funding as part of a reported proposal by U.S. authorities to cut support for international aid groups. According to a leaked 281-page
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DA NANG, Vietnam (AP) — Bui Van Phong faced a choice when the Vietnam War ended 50 years ago: Stay in his small village, helping his parents carry on the family’s centuries-old tradition of making fish sauce, or join the hundreds of thousands of people fleeing his country for a better life. Phong chose to
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NEW YORK (AP) — An ancient wasp may have zipped among the dinosaurs, with a body like a Venus flytrap to seize and snatch its prey, scientists reported Wednesday. The parasitic wasp’s abdomen boasts a set of flappy paddles lined with thin bristles, resembling “a small bear trap attached to the end of it,” said
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