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CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — When the general assembly decided to build a state university here 235 years ago, they named the town for a church built by the British. The little chapel on the hill was actually called New Hope. Advertisement Though the site has been knocked down and built over in the subsequent centuries, the spirit of that name …

The world waited for two years to see Arch Manning start for Texas. And in the first half against Ohio State, the world got an explanation for why Arch Manning was sitting for the last two years. Manning short-armed throws, threw into coverage and failed to get any traction at all on offense in the first 30 minutes at The Shoe. …

Keegan Bradley knows better than anyone how hard these Ryder Cup phone calls could be. Bradley, who was passed over for the 2023 Ryder Cup team, now has the task of picking the six players who will join the automatic qualifiers for the US squad for the event next month at Bethpage. Bradley hinted that some surprises could be coming …

Two games into the Premier League season and Manchester United remain winless despite promising performances. At Craven Cottage, usually a happy hunting ground for the visitors, substitute Emile Smith Rowe denied Ruben Amorim’s men three points with an equaliser in a hard-fought 1-1 draw. Rodrigo Muniz scored an unfortunate own goal to give United the lead, as a Leny Yoro header …

Looter-shooter The First Descendant came under fire over the weekend for some TikTok ads featuring incredibly terrible AI fakes of real streamers endorsing the game. But as grimly bad as the ads might be, publisher Nexon’s excuses are somehow even worse. The First Descendant is a free-to-play shooter that’s been around since June, 2024, entirely failing to set the world ablaze …

Yesterday’s Bloomberg report on Apple’s upcoming tabletop robot didn’t reveal anything new about the hardware, but plans to give it a personality could represent a huge gamble. The starting point seems both uncontroversial and a great idea – basing the UI on the friendly Finder icon that we’ve known and loved since the welcome screen of the original Macintosh back …

Is Jimmy Kimmel preparing to leave the United States amid Donald Trump‘s presidency? Perhaps not given his work commitment to ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” but he’s certainly giving himself an exit plan if needed by obtaining Italian citizenship this year. Celebrities such as Rosie O’Donnell and Ellen DeGeneres fled the U.S. last fall after Trump defeated Kamala Harris in the …

Hot off another Emmy nomination for “The Bear” and looking ahead to her upcoming Disney sequel, “Freakier Friday,” Oscar-winner Jamie Lee Curtis is set to make her first ever-appearance on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.” But, she will be among the show’s last guests. The series is set to end in 2026, a decision that Curtis now calls “awful.” …