Government lawyers told a federal judge on Wednesday that the Trump administration intends to deport a Harvard scientist back to Russia, a country she fled in 2022, despite her fear that she will be arrested there over her protest of Russia’s war in Ukraine. Kseniia Petrova, a researcher at Harvard Medical School, has been held…
In the next 20 years, Gates believes, progress will be ‘incredible.’ “This is a miraculous time,” he told me, with the most exciting work the foundation has ever done sitting in the R.&D. pipeline now, waiting to be delivered. It was almost hard to keep up with his survey of breakthroughs: on H.I.V., on tuberculosis,…
Donald Trump is the face of these cuts, but the cruelty of his administration is not the only story. After leaping upward in the 2000s, global giving for health grew very slowly through the 2010s. The culture of philanthropy has changed somewhat, too, with the age of the Giving Pledge — in which hundreds of…
Google plans to roll out its Gemini artificial intelligence chatbot next week for children under 13 who have parent-managed Google accounts, as tech companies vie to attract young users with A.I. products. “Gemini Apps will soon be available for your child,” the company said in an email this week to the parent of an 8-year-old….
The Justice Department on Thursday accused three of the nation’s largest health insurers of paying hundreds of millions of dollars in illegal kickbacks over several years to insurance brokers that steered people into private Medicare plans. Federal prosecutors also accused two of the insurers of colluding with brokers to discriminate against people with disabilities, by…
Cam Ward speaks during a press conference at Ascension Saint Thomas Sports Park in Nashville, Tenn., Friday, April 25, 2025. The Titans selected quarterback Cam Ward from Miami with the first overall pick in the 2025 NFL Draft. After sleeping for only 90 minutes in the hours between hitting the stage as the No. 1…
Signal, a popular messaging app, came into the spotlight this week following reports that several senior Trump administration officials had used the tool to conduct war planning — inadvertently including a journalist in the message group. The app, which was started in 2014 and has hundreds of millions of users, is popular among journalists, activists,…
