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'Oppenheimer' dominates Oscar nominations, Gerwig passed over for best director 01/23/2024 05:36pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� After a tumultuous movie year marked by strikes and work stoppages, the Academy Awards showered nominations Tuesday on Christopher Nolan���s blockbuster biopic, ���Oppenheimer,��� which came away with a leading 13 nominations. Nolan���s three-hour opus, viewed as the best pictur US-Apple-Books-Top-10 01/23/2024 04:27pm • Top Paid Books (US Bestseller List): 1. First Lie Wins by Ashley Elston (Penguin Publishing Group) 2. The Fury by Alex Michaelides (Celadon Books) 3. Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros (Entangled Publishing, LLC) 4. Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros (Entangled Publishing, LLC) 5. Holmes, Marple & Poe by Apple-Podcasts-Top-Podcasts 01/23/2024 12:18pm • Top New Shows (US): 1. Murder 101, iHeartPodcasts 2. The True Detective: Night Country Podcast, HBO 3. Native Land Pod, iHeartPodcasts 4. The Salty Podcast, Devin Cordle 5. Therapuss with Jake Shane, Jake Shane 6. 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The S&P 500, which is the centerpiece of many 401(k) accounts and the main measure that prof There's 'meatless Monday,' but these DC restaurants have you covered for 'Veganuary' 01/19/2024 07:47am • If you've already given up on "Dry January," there's another healthy challenge you can try. It's called "Veganuary" and it encourages people to try vegan eating to end animal farming, improve their physical health and protect the planet. "It is the New Year's time where people ��� are noticing th Apple offers rivals access to tap-and-go payment tech to resolve EU antitrust case 01/19/2024 07:39am • LONDON (AP) ��� Apple has promised to open up its tap-and-go mobile payment system to rivals, the European Union said Friday, as the U.S. tech company seeks to resolve an antitrust case and avoid a fine that potentially could be worth billions. Apple proposed letting third-party mobile wallet and pa What to stream this weekend: Jason Momoa roaming, Green Day rocking and 'Fast X' exploding 01/19/2024 12:01am • Jason Momoa hosting a new travel docuseries for Max called ���On the Roam��� and the Finnish romantic comedy ���Fallen Leaves��� are some of the new television, movies, music and games headed to a device near you. Also among the streaming offerings worth your time as selected by The Associated Press Stock market today: Asian stocks track Wall Street gains and Japan���s inflation slows 01/18/2024 11:22pm • HONG KONG (AP) ��� Asia markets mostly advanced Friday after Wall Street recouped most of the week's earlier losses and Japan reported slowing inflation, which may keep its ultra-low interest rates steady. U.S. futures were mixed and oil prices fell. Tokyo���s Nikkei 225 index climbed 1.4% to 35,946 How major US stock indexes fared Thursday, 1/18/2024 01/18/2024 04:15pm • Wall Street bounced back to recoup almost all the losses it suffered earlier in the week. The S&P 500 rose 0.9% following back-to-back drops that kicked off this holiday-shortened week. The Dow gained 0.5%, and the Nasdaq composite jumped 1.3%. Big Tech stocks led the way, including Apple, whic Samsung vies to make AI more mainstream by baking more of the technology into its Galaxy phones 01/17/2024 10:53pm • SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) ��� Smartphones could get much smarter this year as the next wave of artificial intelligence seeps into the devices that accompany people almost everywhere they go. Samsung, the biggest rival to Apple and its iPhone, provided a glimpse of how smartphones are evolving during a W Apple to disable blood-oxygen feature on premium watches sold in US as part of patent dispute 01/17/2024 09:41pm • Apple says it will disable a blood-oxygen monitoring feature on its two most popular watches in the U.S. beginning Thursday to comply with a court-ordered revival of a sales ban stemming from a patent dispute. The decision to turn off the blood-oxygen sensor for consumers who buy either the Apple Wa