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April 30, 2025
By Clark Gerber, WRAL Sports contributor The internet is a big place. Unless you’re 100% plugged in all the time (and let’s be clear, that is NOT recommended), you’re going to miss some stuff. Let us do that work. You can be a well-adjusted human being and still catch all the best sports moments of
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LONDON (AP) — The British government’s plan for a landmark smoking ban that aims to stop young people from ever smoking cleared its first hurdle in Parliament on Tuesday despite vocal opposition from within Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s Conservative Party. The bill, a key policy announced by Sunak last year, would make it illegal to
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ATHENS, Greece (AP) — The world is not doing enough to protect coral reefs, the United Nations’ special envoy for the ocean said Tuesday in defense of the marine ecosystems that protect biodiversity, sustain underwater life and produce some of the oxygen we breathe. In an interview with The Associated Press on the sidelines of
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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Stung by paying billions of dollars for settlements and trials, chemical giant Bayer has been lobbying lawmakers in three states to pass bills providing it a legal shield from lawsuits that claim its popular weedkiller Roundup causes cancer. Nearly identical bills introduced in Iowa, Missouri and Idaho this year —
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By NICHOLAS PAPHITIS, Associated Press ANCIENT OLYMPIA, Greece — ANCIENT OLYMPIA, Greece (AP) — Even without the help of Apollo, the flame that is to burn at the Paris Olympics was kindled Tuesday at the site of the ancient games in southern Greece. Cloudy skies prevented the traditional lighting, when an actress dressed as an
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By Brian Murphy, WRAL The Carolina Hurricanes are back in the NHL Playoffs for the sixth consecutive season. And a familiar opponent awaits in the first round. The Hurricanes, the No. 2 seed in the Metropolitan Division, will take on the New York Islanders, who clinched the No. 3 seed in the division with a
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Pilot Mountain’s East Surry High School will have a new head football coach for the first time since 2018. The school announced on Tuesday that successful leader Trent Lowman has resigned. Later in the morning, West Stokes High School in King announced that Lowman was its new head coach. Lowman led East Surry to a
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Northwood High School did not take long to find its next head football coach. The Chargers announced on Tuesday that they’ve hired Dalton Brown as their next leader. Brown is an an alum of Northwood, where he played football and basketball. He attended Campbell University on a football scholarship and graduated from there in 2015
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea is putting surveillance cameras in schools and workplaces and collecting fingerprints, photographs and other biometric information from its citizens in a technology-driven push to monitor its population even more closely, a report said Tuesday. The state’s growing use of digital surveillance tools, which combine equipment imported from China
READ MOREOf the minor blemishes on Pine Lake Prep’s program-altering 20-2-2 season a year ago, was a 0-1-1 record to the eventual 1A state champions at Christ The King. Thanks to a brace from Maddyson Kerley, the Pride used Monday night at The Grey to raise the program’s bar even higher. A 4-1 win set the
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