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While athletes around the world are reveling over their performance at the 2024 Olympics, Flavor Flav has his eyes set on participating in the 2028 L.A. Olympic Games. After sponsoring Team USA’s women’s water polo team in Paris, the Public Enemy frontman hopes to join athletes on the Olympic stage

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Before he was suspended, Zaire Byrd was thriving. He acted in school plays, played on the football team and trained with other athletes. He had never been suspended before — he’d never even received detention. But when Byrd got involved in a fight after school one day, none of that

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Republicans are facing trouble in North Carolina amid recent polling that shows the party’s gubernatorial nominee, Mark Robinson, is trailing his Democratic opponent. What’s more, Democrats believe Robinson’s extreme candidacy could cause Donald Trump to lose the battleground state to the Democratic presidential nominee, Kamala Harris, in November. Robinson, North