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John Deere gets close to self-farming farms with autonomous tractors coming later this year
Mark Hirsch/Getty Images John Deere recently unveiled its new autonomous tractor that’s ready for large-scale production. The tractors will be ...
Rep. Maxine Waters says Matt Gaetz ‘needs to shut up’ after he said he was ‘proud of the work we did on January 6’
California’s Rep. Maxine Waters appears on MSNBC. MSNBC Rep. Maxine Waters said Rep. Matt Gaetz “needs to shut up” after ...
Republican Sen. Mike Rounds rejects Trump’s claims about 2020: ‘The election was fair’
Sen. Mike Rounds of South Dakota. Sarah Silbiger-Pool/Getty Images Republican Sen. Mike Rounds rejected claims of mass voter fraud in ...
What would you do with a 150-foot ferry? NCDOT is selling one as surplus
Bidding for the Thomas A. Baum closes Jan. 24. Powered by WPeMatico
Agtech company Marrone Bio latest company to relocate HQ from California to Raleigh
Marrone Bio joins the Triangle’s growing cluster of agtech companies. Powered by WPeMatico
Durham is getting a new bagel shop born from the pandemic. Here’s where to find it
Isaac’s in downtown will serve classic bagels, along with not-so-classic marshmallows. Powered by WPeMatico
Shipping containers are only part of the cargo traffic moving in and out of NC ports
North Carolina’s ports at Wilmington and Morehead City handle millions of tons of general cargo. That includes furniture, lumber, and ...
NC port’s next effort to keep up with competitors may be more controversial
Why has a proposal to deepen the channel in the Cape Fear River near Wilmington raised concerns? Powered by WPeMatico
Raleigh’s iconic Mitch’s Tavern looks to reopen, but its namesake owner is stepping back
The All-American bar that’s been a constant for Wolfpack fans and a backdrop for Hollywood’s Kevin Costner and Susan Sarandon, ...
Durham is getting a new bagel shop born from the pandemic. Here’s where to find it
Isaac’s in downtown will serve classic bagels, along with not-so-classic marshmallows. Powered by WPeMatico
Shipping containers are only part of the cargo traffic moving in and out of NC ports
North Carolina’s ports at Wilmington and Morehead City handle millions of tons of general cargo. That includes furniture, lumber, and ...
NC port’s next effort to keep up with competitors may be more controversial
Why has a proposal to deepen the channel in the Cape Fear River near Wilmington raised concerns? Powered by WPeMatico
World of opportunity: Can NC’s Wilmington port cash in on national supply chain troubles?
North Carolina recently has invested hundreds of millions of dollars in its Wilmington port, but the facility remains underused. Powered ...
A Cyprus researcher reportedly identified the ‘Deltacron,’ a COVID-19 strain that’s a combination of the Delta and Omicron variants
A woman takes a throat swab for a COVID-19 rapid test in Berlin, Germany on January 5, 2022. Thomas Trutschel/Photothek/Getty ...
An NFT collection of 10,000 Wall Street bulls sold out in 32 minutes, and soon risk-hungry collectors can double down or lose it all through a new gamification feature
The Wall Street Bulls NFT collection on OpenSea Courtesy of Wall Street Memes company. An NFT collection of 10,000 Wall ...
Mark Zuckerberg is creating a future that looks like a worse version of the world we already have
Facebook cofounder and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Meta In late October, Facebook made a huge announcement: It was changing the ...
Virginia Gov.-elect Glenn Youngkin nominates Trump’s former EPA administrator to become the state’s natural resources secretary, fueling an outcry from Democrats
Former Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Andrew Wheeler. AP Photo/Susan Walsh, Pool, File Gov.-elect Youngkin tapped ex-EPA chief Wheeler to become ...
Meet 2 Texas families who are giving up on buying a house right now amid the state’s real estate frenzy
Congress Avenue and the Texas State Capitol. Brian Bumby Low mortgage rates have spurred a buying frenzy in the Texas ...
Alaska has 6 times more pilots per capita than any other place in the US contributing $3.8 billion to the state. Here’s why they’re essential.
Bush plane in Denali National Park shuttling tourists and workers. Taylor Rains/Insider Alaska has a long history of aviation, with ...
The US economy has been ‘more than fine’ without your student debt
UMass Boston Class of 2021 and 2020 Commencement Ceremonies Craig F. Walker/The Boston Globe via Getty Images Student-loan payments have ...
Trump spent January 6 anniversary watching Biden and Pelosi on cable news and he was enraged, report says
Then-President Donald Trump speaks in the Diplomatic Room of the White House on Thanksgiving on November 26, 2020 in Washington, ...
Far-right Patriot Front heckled and branded an ’embarrassment’ by demonstrators at an anti-abortion march in Chicago
The white nationalist group Patriot Front attends the March For Life on January 8, 2022 in Chicago, Illinois. Kamil Krzaczynski/Getty ...
Today’s mortgage and refinance rates: January 9, 2022
Alyssa Powell/Insider 30-year rates are now over 3% Mortgage rates have been inching upward for the past few months, but ...
Metaverses with top in-house rules will be the most successful ones as people look for where to live their best virtual lives, a crypto boss says
Thinkhubstudio/Getty Metaverse companies that set solid codes of conduct will likely attract the most users, CoinFlip’s CEO said. Ben Weiss ...
An anti-vaxx scientist said ‘mass formation psychosis’ caused people to follow COVID-19 measures. Psychologists say there’s no such thing.
Dr. Robert Malone talks on his phone as he works from his office on his horse farm Wednesday July 22, ...
A lawmaker in Indiana walked back comments saying teachers should be ‘impartial’ when teaching students about Nazism
Concerns over critical race theory have prompted a wave of bills aimed at limiting how some topics are taught in ...
Colorado EMS staff have been instructed to only transport individuals with the most severe cases of COVID-19
An ambulance roars along westbound West Colfax Avenue through traffic, Monday, Nov. 9, 2020, in downtown Denver. AP Photo/David Zalubowski ...
Biden and Obama pay tribute to Harry Reid at Vegas memorial, praising him as ‘one of the greatest Senate majority leaders in history’
US President Joe Biden speaks during a memorial service for the late US Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid at The ...
Japanese man who rents himself out to ‘do nothing’ for a living says he will ‘reply to chitchat, but that’s it’
Shoji Morimoto CBS Saturday Morning Shoji Morimoto works as a so-called “Do Nothing Rent-a-Man.” People hire the 38-year-old to join ...
How 15,000 ceramics are made a day in Gujarat, India
Mitticool, a ceramics company from Gujarat, India, makes 15,000 clay products a day, including refrigerators. They keep food 8 degrees ...
