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Retire at 50: 11 Key Questions to Ask 01/28/2024 07:00pm • With the right structure around your retirement, you can achieve your goals and live your ideal retirement successfully. A movement called FIRE -- Financial Independence, Retire Early - gained popularity during the COVID-19 pandemic. FIRE redefines wealth as a means to align with your values. The pr Science sleuths are using technology to find fakery and plagiarism in published research 01/28/2024 03:32pm • Allegations of research fakery at a leading cancer center have turned a spotlight on scientific integrity and the amateur sleuths uncovering image manipulation in published research. Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, a Harvard Medical School affiliate, announced Jan. 22 it's requesting retractions and c U.Md. doctor explains why strokes are occurring more often in young adults 01/28/2024 11:34am • Rapper Snoop Dogg says his 24-year-old daughter is on the mend after suffering a stroke earlier this month. Doctors say she is far from alone, as the brain condition is striking more young adults. Doctors call strokes a “brain attack,” and while many occur in older people, about 10-15% of all The effective diets that can help lower your cholesterol 01/27/2024 09:50pm • Is there an effective way to lower your cholesterol and reduce your risk of heart disease and stroke without taking medication? A disciplined diet and regular exercise could do the trick but what works best? Health and science reporter Marlene Cimons joined WTOP's Mark Lewis to talk about the Scherzer and deGrom making progress to hopeful midseason returns for World Series champion Texas 01/27/2024 04:43pm • ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — The World Series champion Texas Rangers have two multiple Cy Young Award winners who could return to their rotation sometime in the middle of the summer. Three-time Cy Young winner Max Scherzer said Saturday that he is progressing from December surgery to repair a herniate Will other states replicate Alabama's nitrogen execution? 01/27/2024 09:02am • ATMORE, Ala. (AP) — Alabama's first-ever use of nitrogen gas for an execution could gain traction among other states and change how the death penalty is carried out in the United States, much like lethal injection did more than 40 years ago, according to experts on capital punishment. Alabama A Data Doctors: Exploring Windows 11 Snipping Tool 01/26/2024 10:36pm • Q: Why does nothing happen when I press the Print Screen key? A: The 'Print Screen' key (abbreviated as PrtSc or PrtScn) has been around since the 1980s and is just one of many ways to capture what's on your screen. Depending upon which version of Windows you are running, pressing the key can A private prison health care company accused of substandard care is awarded new contract in Illinois 01/26/2024 07:40pm • SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois has awarded a more than $4 billion prison medical care contract to the same company it's used for three decades, despite multimillion-dollar lawsuits against the firm and statewide complaints alleging substandard care. Pittsburgh-based Wexford Health Sources was o How Dominican women fight child marriage and teen pregnancy while facing total abortion bans 01/26/2024 07:40pm • AZUA, Dominican Republic (AP) — It was a busy Saturday morning at Marcia González’s church. A bishop was visiting, and normally she would have been there helping with logistics, but on this day she was teaching sex education at a local school. “I coordinate activities at the church and my hus Simon Pagenaud still hoping to race in 2024 after scary crash last season 01/26/2024 06:23pm • DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Even if Meyer Shank Racing had returned to this year's Rolex 24 at Daytona in search of a third consecutive win in the prestigious endurance race, the lineup would not have included Simon Pagenaud. The Frenchman was part of MSR's back-to-back titles the last two seasons US pauses funding to UN agency for Palestinians after claims staffers were involved in Hamas attack 01/26/2024 06:20pm • DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — The U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees fired a number of its staffers in Gaza suspected of taking part in the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas and other militants on southern Israel, its director said Friday, prompting the United States — the agency's biggest donor — t White House sets new guidelines for Cabinet notifications after Austin's secret hospitalization 01/26/2024 05:39pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is laying out a new set of guidelines to ensure it will be informed any time a Cabinet head can't carry out their job after Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin's secret hospitalization this month was kept for days from President Joe Biden and his top aides. The new gui Pentagon chief Austin's cancer prognosis is 'excellent,' no further treatments needed, doctors say 01/26/2024 05:16pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s doctors at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center say his prostate cancer prognosis is excellent and no further treatments will be needed after seeing him for a follow-up appointment Friday. Austin, 70, was diagnosed with prostate cancer Prosecutor uses texts to try to show mom of school shooter cared more about horses than son 01/26/2024 03:43pm • PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — Prosecutors on Friday sought to portray the mother of a Michigan school shooter as an aloof parent more interested in horses than the mental health of her teenage son who was apparently having hallucinations months before killing four students. Jennifer Crumbley, 45, is on tr King Charles III is doing well after scheduled prostate treatment 01/26/2024 12:52pm • LONDON (AP) — King Charles III is doing well after undergoing a “corrective procedure” for an enlarged prostate, Queen Camilla said Friday as she left the private hospital where he was being treated. The 75-year-old monarch was admitted to the London Clinic, where the Princess of Wales, his da