
The Guardian - 1 hour 14 min ago
The tournament's mascot came to herald the ubiquitous, commercial aims of a growing international spectacle Deep within a dark warehouse in Hillsborough, North Carolina, there sits a severed head. Encased in plastic, perfectly preserved and seemingly begging to be reanimated, it belongs to an American soccer legend. For a seismic summer 32 years ago, Striker the dog was more ubiquitous than any of World Cup 94's players, plastered all over billboards, Coke cans, key chains, caps and hundreds...

Newser - 14 hours 44 min ago
R. Kelly is now looking to the White House for a break, USA Today reports. The 58-year-old singer has filed a clemency petition with the Justice Department asking President Trump to commute his 31-year federal sentence. Kelly is imprisoned in North Carolina after 2021 and 2022 convictions in New York...

New York Times - 16 hours 54 min ago
NextEra Energy's headquarters in Juno Beach, Fla. Florida does not require regulatory approval of NextEra's deal with Dominion Energy, but the companies filed requests with Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina.

UPI - 23 hours 4 min ago
A North Carolina woman said a bout of insomnia lead to her winning a $150,000 prize while "fiddling around" with online lottery games.