1.Hospitals in South Korea on Monday started hiring roughly 7-thousand-700 trainee doctors, despite some medical professors warning of boycotting their training programs in protest of the government's push for accepting the resignations of trainees on strike.

2.The Joint Chiefs of Staff said Monday that South Korea conducted anti-Pyongyang broadcasts through its border loudspeakers in full-scale for the second day, in response to the North's repeated launches of trash-carrying balloons into the South.

3.U.S. President Joe Biden dropped out of the presidential race Sunday and officially endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris to succeed him as the Democratic Party's candidate. The announcement came following Biden’s poor debate performance last month against former President Donald Trump.