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The 93-year-old widow of a Wall Street financier has donated $1 billion to a Bronx medical school, the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, with instructions that the gift be used to cover tuition for all students in the future.The donor, Dr. Ruth Gottesman is a former professor at Einstein, where she studied learning disabilities, developed a screening test, and ran literacy programs. It is one of the largest philanthropic gifts to an educational institution in the United States and possibly the largest to a medical school.The fortune came from her late husband, David Gottesman, known as Sandy, who was a…

Jacob Rothschild, a wealthy financier, arts patron and philanthropist with close ties to Israel who broke with his family’s storied banking dynasty at a time of radical change in the world of high finance, has died. It was 87.His death was was announced on Monday from the Rothschild Foundation, a British charity of which he was chairman. He did not specify when and where he died or give a cause of death.Mr Rothschild – more formally the fourth Baron Rothschild – was descended from Mayer Amschel Rothschild, a coin dealer in the Jewish ghetto in Frankfurt, who sent four of…

Ulysses, the American robotic spacecraft that landed on the moon last week, is likely to die in the next day or so.Communications with the rover remain limited and will end when sunlight no longer shines on the solar panels, Intuitive Machines, the Houston-based company that built and operates Odysseus, said Monday morning.The company also released images taken by the spacecraft as it descended, but none from the surface yet.Odysseus is the first US spacecraft to land on the Moon since Apollo 17 in 1972 and the first private craft to land successfully in one piece. However, during the landing on…

Peter Anthony Morgan, the lead singer of the reggae band Morgan Heritage, a Grammy-winning group formed by singer Denroy Morgan’s children that became known for its diverse influences and tight vocal harmonies, died Sunday.He was 46, the Associated Press reported. Mr Morgan’s family confirmed his death in a statement on the band’s social media platforms. The statement did not give his age or give a cause of death.Mr. Morgan, known as “Peetah”, started with Morgan Heritage seven of his brothers in 1994. The group later became a quintet.For some early albums, including “Protect Us Jah” (1997) and “Don’t Haffi Dread”…

The death of a 16-year-old non-binary student after a fight in an Oklahoma high school girls’ bathroom has drawn national attention and outrage from gay and transgender rights groups who say the student was bullied because of their gender identity.Nex Benedict, who often used the pronouns they and them and told relatives he didn’t think of himself as strictly male or female, died in early February, a day after fighting with three girls at Owasso High School. The details of what happened and what exactly caused Nex’s death were unclear, but in a police interview video released on February 24,…

On a rainy Saturday afternoon in central Tokyo, about 50 Chinese gathered in a gray, nondescript office that doubles as a bookstore. They came for a seminar about Qiu Jin, a Chinese feminist poet and revolutionary who was beheaded more than a century ago for plotting to overthrow the Qing dynasty.Like them, Ms. Qiu had lived as an immigrant in Japan. The title of the lecture, “Rebuilding China in Tokyo,” spoke as much about the aspirations of the people in the room as it did about Ms. Qiu’s life.Public debates like this used to be common in China’s big cities,…

AT&T will offer a $5 credit to customers affected by a widespread outage Thursday caused by technical problems the company faced as it tried to expand its network, its chief executive said Sunday.The outage, which began around 3:30 a.m. Eastern time, temporarily disrupted connections for users across the United States.Some of the cities affected were Atlanta, Los Angeles and New York, according to Downdetector.com, which tracks user reports of telecom and internet outages.At its peak, the site had received about 70,000 service outage reports for AT&T. Service was fully restored after about seven hours.”Regardless of the timing, one thing is…

A drug used for decades to treat allergic asthma and hives significantly reduced the risk of life-threatening reactions in children with severe food allergies exposed to small amounts of peanuts, cashews, milk and eggs, researchers reported Sunday.The drug, Xolair, is already approved by the Food and Drug Administration for adults and children over 1 year of age with food allergies. It is the first treatment to dramatically reduce the risk of serious reactions – such as anaphylaxis, a life-threatening allergic reaction that sends the body into shock – after accidental exposure to various food allergens.The results of the researchers’ study…

“‘Outsiders’ is the first novel I ever read, front to back,” Boone said. He was in fifth grade, and it had an immediate impact. “It was the first time I saw that white people could treat other white people the way who treated me as black,” he said.Boone and the rest of the cast are more excited than nervous about the prospect of transforming this beloved property into a new medium.”Since 1967, people who have read this novel have invested their souls and their time to step into Ponyboy’s shoes, reading the narrator as themselves,” Grant said. “It just makes…

Some 31,000 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed since Russia’s full-scale invasion began two years ago, President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Sunday, acknowledging for the first time in the war a specific figure for Ukraine’s dead.”This is a great loss for us,” Mr Zelensky told a news conference in Kiev, the capital of Ukraine. But he declined to reveal the number of wounded or missing, saying Russia could use the information to gauge the number of active Ukrainian forces.Mr. Zelensky’s account could not be independently verified. It differs significantly from estimates by US officials, who last summer put the toll much…