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FILE – Eric Church performs at Talking Stick Resort Arena in Phoenix, Ariz. on March 28, 2017. Church will perform at this year’s CMA Awards in Nashville. The show will air on ABC on Nov. 11. (Photo by Rick Scuteri/Invision/AP,

Laetitia Beck, who was a four-time All-ACC performer at Duke, is one of several players with ties to North Carolina who are trying to earn their way onto the LPGA Tour in this week’s Symetra Tour event at Pinehurst No.

Madison, Wis. residents Theola Carter, left, and Carrie Braxton fill out their ballots on the first day of the state’s in-person absentee voting window for the Nov. 3 election outside the city’s City-County Building Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2020. (John Hart/Wisconsin

President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at Manchester-Boston Regional Airport, Sunday, Oct. 25, 2020, in Londonderry, N.H. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Donald Trump plans to intensify an already breakneck travel schedule in the final full

Wake Forest’s Nick Anderson intercepts a pass intended for Virginia Tech’s James Mitchell during the second half of the Deacons’ win Saturday (Winston-Salem Journal/Andrew Dye) Wake Forest kicked off the most difficult stretch of its 2020 football schedule with an

UNC, NC State and renew their football rivalry in Chapel Hill today (Rob Kinnan/USA TODAY Sports) It’s always a special day when rivals get together for their annual reunion on the football field. Even when it’s not the last game

FILE – In this Monday, Nov. 5, 2018 file photo, a woman walks past the logo for Google at the China International Import Expo in Shanghai. By U.S. standards, the Justice Department’s move to sue Google this week for abusing

Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett, meets with Sen. Martha McSally, R-Ariz., Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2020, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Greg Nash/Pool via AP) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Senate Judiciary Committee voted Thursday to advance Amy Coney Barrett’s Supreme

Pitcher Blake Snell, right, catcher Michael Perez, center, and manager Kevin Cash are all former Durham Bulls players who are part of the Tampa Bay Rays team playing in the World Series. (Chris O’Meara / AP Photo) The Durham Bulls

A poster showing six wanted Russian military intelligence officers is displayed as Assistant Attorney General for the National Security Division John Demers, left, takes the podium to speak at a news conference at the Department of Justice, Monday, Oct. 19,