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Navigating the SMB landscape — resources, staffing, artificial intelligence and more — across the DMV 08/24/2023 04:29pm • What’s the current landscape look like for small businesses in our region? What’s positive? And what’s perhaps not so positive? WTOP Business Reporter Jeff Clabaugh finds out in his discussion with Jack McDougle, president and CEO of the Greater Washington Board of Trade, and Alex Austin, p FIFA opens case against Spanish soccer official who kissed a player on the lips at Women's World Cup 08/24/2023 04:17pm • GENEVA (AP) — FIFA opened a disciplinary case Thursday against the Spanish soccer official who kissed a player on the lips while celebrating the team's victory in the Women’s World Cup final. The governing body's disciplinary committee will weigh if Spanish soccer federation president Luis Rubia Canadian wildfires led to spike in asthma ER visits, especially in the Northeast 08/24/2023 04:14pm • NEW YORK (AP) — The smoke from Canadian wildfires that drifted into the U.S. led to a spike in people with asthma visiting emergency rooms — particularly in the New York area. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published two studies Thursday about the health impacts of the smoke In deadly Maui fires, many had no warning and no way out. Those who dodged a barricade survived 08/24/2023 04:01pm • As flames tore through a West Maui neighborhood, car after car of fleeing residents headed for the only paved road out of town in a desperate race for safety. And car after car was turned back toward the rapidly spreading wildfire by a barricade blocking access to Highway 30. One family swerved aro Jermaine Johnson intends to show he's a dominant pass rusher in his second year with the Jets 08/24/2023 03:59pm • FLORHAM PARK, N.J. (AP) — Jermaine Johnson didn’t particularly like what he saw when he turned on the film of his rookie season with the New York Jets. The 26th overall pick in last year's NFL draft thought he was watching someone else. Not the player he was at Florida State. And it had nothing Novak Djokovic's US Open return will come against someone who's never played a match there 08/24/2023 12:07pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Novak Djokovic's return to the U.S. Open after missing it last year because he wasn't vaccinated against COVID-19 will come against an opponent who never has played in the tournament, while defending women's champion Iga Swiatek and Coco Gauff were drawn Thursday into a possible qu Iran and Saudi Arabia are among 6 nations set to join China and Russia in the BRICS economic bloc 08/24/2023 12:02pm • JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Iran and Saudi Arabia were among six countries invited Thursday to join the BRICS bloc of developing economies in a move that showed signs of strengthening a China-Russia coalition as tensions with the West spiral higher. The United Arab Emirates, Argentina, Egypt and Ethiopia Fewer Americans apply for jobless benefits as labor market keeps humming along 08/24/2023 11:56am • Applications for unemployment benefits fell again last week as America's labor market continues to hum along despite attempts by the Federal Reserve to cool the economy and bring down inflation that's still higher than optimal. The number of Americans applying for jobless benefits fell last week by Hospital services in the UK come to a standstill as thousands of senior doctors strike again 08/24/2023 11:02am • LONDON (AP) — Hospital care across England largely came to a standstill on Thursday as senior doctors launch another 48-hour strike amid an ongoing pay dispute between medics and the British government. Thousands of hospital doctors say they will only provide emergency care, and the National Heal New gas pipeline rules floated following 2018 blasts in Massachusetts 08/24/2023 10:40am • BOSTON (AP) — Federal regulators are proposing a series of rules changes aimed at toughening safety requirements for millions of miles of gas distribution pipelines nationwide following a string of gas explosions in Massachusetts in 2018. These proposed changes are designed to improve safety and e North Korea says its 2nd attempt to launch a spy satellite has failed, vows 3rd try 08/24/2023 09:09am • SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea said Thursday that its second attempt to launch a spy satellite had failed again but vowed to make another attempt in October, demonstrating a willingness to endure flops to acquire a key military asset coveted by leader Kim Jong Un. The failed launch prompted Rockslide near the Dead Sea in Israel kills 5-year-old boy and injures 6 others 08/24/2023 08:36am • JERUSALEM (AP) — An avalanche of rocks tumbled down a hillside onto a hiking trail near the Dead Sea in Israel on Thursday, trapping many people, killing a 5-year-old boy and injuring at least six others, medics said. The volunteer emergency medical service United Hatzalah said rescue teams recov Building collapse in Nigeria's capital leaves two people dead while many are feared trapped 08/24/2023 07:28am • ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Rescue crews were searching for survivors Thursday after a building collapse in Nigeria’s capital left two people dead while many others are feared trapped, emergency officials said. The two-story building in the densely populated Garki district of the capital Abuja collaps Hopeful signs of an economic 'soft landing' emerge in Jackson Hole as Fed meets with world watching 08/24/2023 06:30am • JACKSON HOLE, Wyoming (AP) — At the height of the post-pandemic economic recovery, Andy Parazette's taco shop enjoyed such a crush of business that customers sometimes had to wait an hour for a burrito. Though Parazette welcomed the sales, the influx was unsustainable. Jackson Hole, Wyoming, was Republican candidates fight each other, and mostly line up behind Trump, at the first debate 08/24/2023 04:34am • MILWAUKEE (AP) — The Republican presidential candidates vying to be the leading alternative to front-runner Donald Trump fought — sometimes bitterly — over abortion rights, U.S. support for Ukraine and the type of experience needed to manage an expansive federal government during the first deb