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What's next for South Korean doctors who face license suspensions because of walkouts 03/04/2024 06:17am • SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s government is pressing ahead with its vow to suspend the licenses of thousands of junior doctors who ignore its repeated demands to end their collective walkouts. Nearly 9,000 out of the country’s 13,000 medical interns and residents have been refusing t From 'Who Let the Dogs Out' to today: Hitmaker on how social media is changing music industry 03/04/2024 06:15am • The other day, while producing a reel for Instagram, I came to the part of the process where I could choose to add music. The video and captions in my post asked whether my adult dog would ever learn to ring the bell hanging on the kitchen door to signal he needs to be let out to relieve himself Oscar Week Series: Will 'Oppenheimer' mark the return of the blockbuster best picture? 03/04/2024 04:25am • It's Oscar week! Every day this week, WTOP examines a different aspect of Oscar history and this year's race. After decades of cinephilia, the "Barbenheimer" phenomenon could steer the Oscars back toward the people. If either Christopher Nolan's "Oppenheimer" (the unstoppable front-runner) DC surpasses San Francisco for AI jobs, driving lobbying and data center growth 03/04/2024 02:30am • The D.C. metro area surpassed the San Francisco Bay area for artificial intelligence-related job postings in December, according to research from commercial real estate company JLL. More than 1,000 such active job openings existed in the D.C. area at the end of 2023. Demand for those AI-related j US shakes off shocking loss, advances to Women's Gold Cup semis with a 3-0 win over Colombia 03/03/2024 11:51pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) — Six days after the United States got very publicly knocked down by Mexico, the Americans got back up and started swinging again — sometimes almost literally. The U.S. had more than enough toughness and talent to win a chippy match with Colombia and to keep moving forward in South Korea takes steps to suspend licenses of striking doctors after they refuse to end walkouts 03/03/2024 11:41pm • SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s government began steps Monday to suspend the medical licenses of thousands of striking junior doctors, days after they missed a government-set deadline to end their joint walkouts, which have severely impacted hospital operations. Nearly 9,000 medical inte In Rio, rife with dengue, bacteria-infected mosquitoes are making a difference 03/03/2024 10:45pm • NITEROI, Brazil (AP) — Since Rio de Janeiro declared a public health emergency after an outbreak of dengue fever last month, the city has ramped up testing capacities, opened up a dozen dengue health centers and trained medical staff to attend to the ever-growing needs of its population. But in Ri South Korean doctors hold massive anti-government rally over medical school recruitment plan 03/03/2024 10:18pm • SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Thousands of senior doctors rallied in the South Korean capital, Seoul, on Sunday to express their support for junior doctors who have been on strike for nearly two weeks over a government plan to sharply increase the number of medical school admissions. The rally came as Haiti declares a curfew as it tries to restore order after weekend jailbreak, explosion of violence 03/03/2024 10:06pm • PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haiti's government declared a state of emergency and nighttime curfew late Sunday in a bid to regain control of the streets after an explosion of violence over the weekend saw armed gang members storm the country's two biggest prisons. The 72-hour state of emergency w Surfers from Brazil and Australia win final Olympic qualifier in warm and windy Puerto Rico 03/03/2024 08:58pm • ARECIBO, Puerto Rico (AP) — Top surfers Gabriel Medina of Brazil and Sally Fitzgibbons of Australia won the final qualifier for the upcoming Olympics on Sunday following nine days in which scores of competitors faced volatile weather and painful sea urchin spines. The World Surfing Games competiti 7 Best Vanguard Funds to Buy and Hold 03/03/2024 07:00pm • In 1975, the financial industry witnessed the introduction of the first money market fund, and a year later the first equity index fund became available to retail investors. These groundbreaking offerings provided individuals with access to diversified portfolios and stable, liquid investments, revo Crew awaits weather-delayed launch to space station 03/03/2024 05:17pm • The four-person crew launched successfully Sunday night. Read the latest updates here. With better weather expected, SpaceX and NASA geared up for a third attempt Sunday to launch a three-man, one-woman crew to the International Space Station, the first of two crew rotation flights to replace In Hawaii, coral is the foundation of life. What happened to it after the Lahaina wildfire? 03/03/2024 05:08pm • Abraham “Snake” Ah Hee rides waves when the surf’s up and dives for octopus and shells when the water is calm. The lifelong Lahaina, Hawaii, resident spends so much time in the ocean that his wife jokes he needs to wet his gills. But these days Ah Hee is worried the water fronting his Maui hom Xabi Alonso’s Bayer Leverkusen moves 10 points clear atop Bundesliga with 10 rounds to go 03/03/2024 02:02pm • BERLIN (AP) — Xabi Alonso’s Bayer Leverkusen took another step toward winning the Bundesliga title on Sunday with a 2-0 derby win at 10-man Cologne. Goals from Jeremie Frimpong and Álex Grimaldo in each half helped Leverkusen capitalize on Bayern Munich’s 2-2 draw at Freiburg on Friday to mov A woman clutching an infant is found in the rubble of Ukraine building after Russian drone strike 03/03/2024 01:55pm • KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — President Volodymyr Zelenskyy urged Western allies to boost Ukraine’s air defenses after a Russian drone strike destroyed an apartment block in the southern port city of Odesa and killed at least 11 people. Officials on Sunday said the bodies of a boy — and a young woman c