He channeled support for campaigns to eradicate polio, reduce infant mortality, build schools and help find an AIDS vaccine — among other causes.Bill Gates Sr. in 2010. In 1994 he started what became the world’s largest philanthropy, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. “His motive,” an observer said, “was that with all that money, you…
It’s not just Americans who are anxious about the election: The wave of populist conservative parties that surged across Europe after Donald Trump won are watching the U.S. contest with intense interest on the hope that a second Trump term will boost their momentum. From Marine Le Pen’s National Rally party in France and Nigel…
Officials in Rochester, N.Y., spent months trying to suppress video footage of the police encounter that led to Mr. Prude’s death.City records show how officials sought to frame the narrative around Daniel Prude’s death in the hours and days after his encounter with the police.Sept. 15, 2020Updated 7:19 p.m. ETROCHESTER, N.Y. — It was early…
CNN appeared to bury the lede by sounding the alarm oh the "large crowd" and "little social distancing" at the White House event commemorating the historic peace deal between Israel, United Arab Emirates (UAE), and Bahrain.On Tuesday, President Trump was joined by Israeli President Benjamin Netanyahu, UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nahyan, and Bahrain Foreign Minister Khalid bin…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…