Reigning national champion Connecticut, Purdue and North Carolina remain atop The Associated Press Top 25 men’s college basketball poll for the third consecutive week. The new poll also includes South Carolina cracking the rankings for the first time in nearly seven years.
Forget her “Reputation.” Taylor Swift has a brand new album coming out. Accepting the Grammy for best pop vocal album, Taylor said she’d been keeping a secret for two years. Swift then posted a black-and-white image of her reclining across pillows across her social feeds.
Taylor Swift has won album of the year for “Midnights,” breaking a Grammys record for most wins in the category with four. Miley Cyrus won record of the year Sunday night for her hit “Flowers.” Victoria Monét won best new artist at the performance-packed show that aired live from Los Angeles.
Punxsutawney Phil has forecasted an early spring from the largest and best-known Groundhog Day celebration in the United States at an overcast Gobbler’s Knob in western Pennsylvania. The annual event was held shortly after sunrise on Friday.
Third-ranked North Carolina is getting some of its best defensive play in years. That has helped the Tar Heels rise to the top of the Atlantic Coast Conference standings entering Saturday's rivalry game against No. 7 Duke.
Astronomers say an asteroid as big as a skyscraper will pass within 1.7 million miles of Earth on Friday. NASA estimates the space rock is between 690 feet and 1,575 feet across, which means the asteroid could be similar in size to New York City's Empire State Building.
A federal judge has dismissed Disney’s free speech lawsuit against Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. Wednesday's ruling deals a setback to the company’s hopes of regaining control of a district that governs Walt Disney World. A separate lawsuit over who controls the district is still pending in state court in Orlando.
There's new interest in one of the past century's most alluring mysteries and a grainy sonar image is at the heart of both excitement and skepticism. A South Carolina-based sea exploration company has captured an outline of Amelia Earhart’s Lockheed 10-E Electra deep below the Pacific Ocean’s surface. The pioneering aviator has never been found after disappearing July 2, 1937, while flying from New Guinea to Howland Island.
A man in suburban Philadelphia has been charged with first-degree murder after his father was found decapitated. Police are investigating a video on social media where the man appears to hold up his fathers head and talks about various conspiracy theories. The father was found in his Levittown, Pennsylvania home on Tuesday night. Police say the son was arrested about 100 miles away hours after the killing.
Officials say scores of sea turtles stunned by cold temperatures along the North Carolina coast have died. The North Carolina State University Center for Marine Sciences and Technology says it took in 109 cold-stunned sea turtles from Cape Lookout on Sunday. Officials say the frigid temperatures leave the cold-blooded reptiles lethargic, leaving them vulnerable to being carried by wind to the shorelines.
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