Category Archives: WPTF News
Russia amplified hurricane disinformation to drive Americans apart, researchers find
By DAVID KLEPPER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - Russia has helped amplify and spread false and misleading internet claims about recent hurricanes in the United States and the federal government's ...
Oct 24, 2024
NC State's Grayson McCall gives up football, says he can't come back from latest head injury
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - North Carolina State quarterback Grayson McCall announced his retirement from football on Wednesday night, less than three weeks after a vicious hit knocked him out of a game for ...
Oct 23, 2024
Donald Trump tells supporters to 'just vote' at lively Georgia rally organized by Charlie Kirk
By BILL BARROW and JILL COLVIN Associated Press DULUTH, Ga. (AP) - Donald Trump pushed supporters at a lively rally Wednesday in Georgia to vote for him - with an early ballot or in-person on Election...
Oct 23, 2024
Tim Burton talks about his dread of AI as an exhibition of his work opens in London
The imagination of Tim Burton has produced ghosts and ghouls, Martians, monsters and misfits - all on display at an exhibition that is opening at London's Design Museum just in time for Halloween (Oct...
Oct 23, 2024
Panthers QB Bryce Young will start against Broncos after Andy Dalton sprains thumb in car crash
By STEVE REED AP Sports Writer CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) - Bryce Young is back in as Carolina's starting quarterback. Panthers coach Dave Caneles said Young would start Sunday against the Denver Broncos af...
Oct 23, 2024
Rapper Eminem and Obama rally voters for Kamala Harris in Detroit
By JOEY CAPPELLETTI Associated Press DETROIT (AP) - Detroit rapper Eminem stepped into the political arena Tuesday in his hometown, where he spoke briefly at a rally for Vice President Kamala Harris '...
Oct 23, 2024
Panthers' Andy Dalton, family involved in car crash. QB being evaluated by team doctors
By STEVE REED AP Sports Writer CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) - Carolina Panthers quarterback Andy Dalton and his family were involved in a car crash on Tuesday. The 36-year-old was being evaluated by team medi...
Oct 22, 2024
Trump hurls a string of insults at Harris and repeats criticism of federal response to Helene
By THOMAS BEAUMONT and JILL COLVIN Associated Press GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) - Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on Tuesday hurled a series of personal attacks at Vice President Kamala Harris,...
Oct 22, 2024
LeBron and Bronny James make history as the NBA's first father-son duo to play together
By GREG BEACHAM AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) - LeBron James and Bronny James became the first father and son to play in the NBA together Tuesday night during the the Los Angeles Lakers ' season o...
Oct 22, 2024
Israel says it killed a Hezbollah official expected to be the group's next leader
By SARAH EL DEEB, FARNOUSH AMIRI, and TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) - Israel said Tuesday that one of its airstrikes outside Beirut earlier this month killed a Hezbollah official widely ...
Oct 22, 2024