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May 1, 2025
By Ryan Bisesi, WRAL multiplatform producer 21Arizona Wildcats 1Duke Blue Devils CBS | Thursday, March 27th 9:39 PM EDT Newark, N.J. — Duke basketball is no stranger to the Sweet 16, but there’s a broader theme of familiarity for the Blue Devils through this March Madness run. After dismantling No. 9 seed Baylor and former
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Rodney Dunham is an edge rusher prospect from Myers Park High School in Mecklenburg County. Positions: EDGE Height: 6’5 Weight: 230 Graduating Class: 2026 Latest Update Mar. 26, 3:44 p.m. – Dunham will announce his commitment in a ceremony held at the Myers Park gynnasium on April 10. He will chose between Duke, Georgia, Notre
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Chinese researchers are reporting new steps in the quest for animal-to-human organ transplants – with a successful pig kidney transplant and a hint Wednesday that pig livers might eventually be useful, too. A Chinese patient is the third person in world known to be living with a gene-edited pig kidney. And the
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By AARON BEARD, AP Basketball Writer It wasn’t that long ago that Tyrese Proctor was struggling to make much of anything outside the arc. Shot after shot clanged away in a befuddling stretch of misses spanning nearly a month of the stretch run for Duke’s national-title contender. Now he can’t miss. The junior guard has
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Neptune’s glowing auroras are captured in the best detail yet by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. Hints of auroras were first faintly detected in ultraviolet light during a flyby of the Voyager 2 spacecraft in 1989. Webb captured Neptune’s shimmering lights in infrared light, providing direct evidence they exist. NASA released the
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Holly Springs High School had only been open four years when Carlos Rodon stepped onto the pitcher’s mound as a junior in 2010. Rodon was about to have a breakout season, one that would attract the attention of professional baseball scouts everywhere. The left-handed pitcher, who was eventually ranked the No. 18 left-handed pitcher in
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DENVER (AP) — As Americans struggle under backbreaking rental prices, builders are turning to innovative ways to churn out more housing, from 3D printing to assembling homes in an indoor factory to using hemp — yes, the marijuana cousin — to make building blocks for walls. It’s a response to the country’s shortfall of millions
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NEW YORK (AP) — The moon will appear to take bites out of the sun this weekend during a partial solar eclipse in the Northern Hemisphere — but make sure to protect your eyes. The eclipse will be visible Saturday across Europe, western Africa, eastern North America and northern Asia. The sun will shrink the
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A bill has been filed in the North Carolina State Senate that would provide funds to pay athletic coaches at public schools using revenue from sports gambling. Senate Bill 657, which is called “Keeping Our Coaches Act,” was filed in the Senate on Tuesday. It would allocate $11 million annually to the Department of Public
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NEW YORK (AP) — When President Donald Trump canceled $400 million in funding to Columbia University over its handling of student protests against Israel’s war in Gaza, much of the financial pain fell on researchers a train ride away from the school’s campus, working on things like curing cancer and studying COVID-19’s impact on children.
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