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Transgender women athletes banned from Olympics by new IOC policy on female eligibility
2+ week, 4+ day ago (385+ words) LAUSANNE, Switzerland -- Transgender women athletes are now excluded from the Olympics after the IOC agreed to a new eligibility policy on Thursday, which aligns with U. S. President Donald Trump's executive order on women's sports ahead of the 2028 Los Angeles Games. "Eligibility…...
DMV texts threaten unpaid parking ticket enforcement are fake, NC attorney general says
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (221+ words) RALEIGH, N. C. (WTVD) -- A new wave of DMV text scams are hitting phones. The most recent one consumers are getting claims this is your final notice for an unpaid parking ticket, and if you don't pay up, enforcement will begin on…...
EMS lights, sirens use to be reduced for some calls in effort to increase response time: Wake Co.
5+ mon, 2+ week ago (309+ words) RALEIGH, N. C. (WTVD) -- A Wake County plan is on the table that could reduce the number of EMS calls that crews respond to using lights and sirens. County leaders call it an effort to reduce crashes when responding to these events....
3 men deported by US are being held in an African prison without charge, lawyers say
7+ mon, 1+ week ago (707+ words) CAPE TOWN, South Africa -- Three men deported by the United States to Eswatini in July have been held in a maximum-security prison in the African nation for seven weeks without charge and with no access to legal counsel despite completing…...
Trophy hunter kills lion in Zimbabwe that was part of research project, sparking anger
8+ mon, 1+ week ago (509+ words) HARARE, Zimbabwe -- The killing of a collared lion involved in a research project in Zimbabwe by a trophy hunter has been condemned by wildlife groups, echoing the infamous case of a lion called Cecil whose death at the hands of…...
Trump confronts South Africa's president in Oval Office, pushes false claims of white genocide
10+ mon, 3+ week ago (973+ words) President Donald Trump and South African President Cyril Ramaphosa engaged in a tense back-and-forth at the White House on Wednesday over Trump's false claims of "genocide" against white South African farmers. In a rare scene in the Oval Office, Trump…...
Federal grant for Duke Health-led Center for HIV/AIDS Vaccine Development not extended
10+ mon, 1+ week ago (606+ words) DURHAM, N. C. (WTVD) -- The US Department of Health and Human Services will not extend a grant funding the Center for HIV/AIDS Vaccine Development, work that was led in part by Duke Health. "Without funding, the major thing that we're doing…...