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May 9, 2025
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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NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge has ruled that The New York Times and other newspapers can proceed with a copyright lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft seeking to end the practice of using their stories to train artificial intelligence chatbots. U.S. District Judge Sidney Stein of New York on Wednesday dismissed some of the
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By Louis Fernandez, WRAL Sports I was at nearly every Duke men’s basketball game at Cameron Indoor Stadium this season. Two moments stand out as the loudest: The Cooper Flagg dunk against PItt (it’s in a Gatorade commercial now, it was that good) Every moment graduate student guard Spencer Hubbard runs to the scorer’s table.
READ MOREPresident Donald Trump on Wednesday said he would consider a reduction in tariffs on China if that country’s government approves a sale of TikTok’s operations in the United States. Speaking with reporters at the Oval Office, Trump said the move “sounds like something I’d do.” The president’s comments came less than two weeks before an
READ MORENEW YORK (AP) — A U.S. airman has been charged with coercing a 9-year-old girl to share sexually explicit images of herself, after he posed as a 13-year-old on the gaming site Roblox. David Ibarra, 31, was arraigned Wednesday in a New York federal court after being arrested in February in Anchorage, Alaska, where he
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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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