By Maggie Brown, WRAL cross-platform producer Raleigh, NC – ReOpenNC, an organization initially formed to protest Governor Roy Cooper’s stay-at-home order, rallied against the mask mandate that will soon begin in downtown Raleigh on Friday morning. The statewide mandate takes effect at 5 p.m. Exceptions are made for anyone with …
Read More »Giant Wombat-like Marsupials Traveled Australia 25 Million Years Ago | Paleontology
Paleontologists have identified a giant wombat-like marsupial that lived 25 million years ago (oligocene epoch) in what is now Australia. Named Mukupirna nambensisThe prehistoric creature was at least five times larger than living wombats and so different that researchers had to create a new family to accommodate it. An artist’s …
Read More »37 Clemson soccer players tested positive
fake pictures How fast can COVID-19 spread through a soccer team? If Clemson is any indication, very fast. Clemson has already had 37 of his 120 players test positive this month, according to the Greenville News. There is good news: none of the Clemson players have required hospitalization. Healthy youth …
Read More »‘The Simpsons’ will relaunch colored characters
The two full-length Fox shows join the likes of Netflix’s ‘Big Mouth’ and Apple’s ‘Central Park’ to make their actors more representative of what’s on screen. In a big change, producers of The Simpsons They say they will no longer use white actors to portray colored characters in the long-running …
Read More »Market Roundup: Bitcoin is still stuck in a rut, trading below $ 10K
After the expiration of the largest options in history, bitcoin ended its fifth week of bounces around the $ 9,000 price range. Bitcoin (BTC) was trading at around $ 9,180 at 20:00 UTC (4 pm ET), dropping nearly 1% in the past 24 hours. At 00:00 UTC on Friday (8:00 …
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