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Melinda French Gates is already one of the biggest philanthropic supporters of gender equity in the United States and is now poised to put another $12.5 billion toward intractable problems like closing the gender pay gap and increasing women's political participation, her grantees hope. The additional funds come as French Gates announced Monday that she was stepping down as co-chair of the Gates Foundation, which she founded together with her ex-husband Bill Gates more than 20 years ago. Organizations like Paid Leave For All, founded in 2019 to coordinate advocacy around passing federal paid leave legislation, said French Gates' steady support over years as well as her advocacy to highlight the issue, counterbalance other funders who have been slow to back difficult fights like theirs.
SAN FRANCISCO — As Apple and Google transform their voice assistants into chatbots, OpenAI is transforming its chatbot into a voice assistant. On Monday, the San Francisco artificial intelligence startup unveiled a new version of its ChatGPT chatbot that can receive and respond to voice commands, images and videos. The company said the new app — based on an AI system called GPT-4o — juggles audio, images and video significantly faster than previous versions of the technology. The app is availabl
At least 99 locations of Red Lobster are being auctioned off amid questions about the stalwart seafood chain's long-term future.
Based on an analysis of ancient tree rings that date all the way back to the year 1, last summer was the hottest in the past 2,000 years.
South Africa's most competitive election since the advent of democracy could provide opportunities for new political party Rise Mzansi to make innovative deals and improve parliamentary oversight, its leader said on Tuesday. With polls suggesting the African National Congress, which has been in power for 30 years, will lose its majority for the first time since the end of apartheid in the May 29 vote, smaller parties have come into focus as potential coalition partners or kingmakers. Songezo Zibi, 48, who founded Rise Mzansi last year and has been campaigning on what he describes as social democratic ideas, said a good result for his party would be to get 5% of the vote, which would translate into 20 seats in the national parliament.
The grills were fired up, the blankets were spread across the grass, the smoke was pungent from sizzling slabs of meat. As in previous years, Israelis marked Independence Day with barbecues in parks across the country. Families grappled with their desire to mark Independence Day even as the country is facing a drawn-out war and one of its most difficult tests in decades.
How soon is soon? Or exactly how much later is later? As the year started, there was a widespread view among economists and on Wall Street that the Federal Reserve would lower interest rates in the first half of the year. Maybe in March, maybe in May, but sooner rather than later. That long-awaited moment, two years after the Fed began ratcheting up rates to their highest level in decades, held the prospect of brightening consumer sentiment, increasing company valuations and improving corporate
A proposed World Health Organization treaty on preparing for future pandemics is currently "not acceptable" to Britain, a UK health minister said on Tuesday.Stephenson said it was "simply not true" that Britain would give away a fifth of its vaccines in a future pandemic under any deal.
Sen. Bob Menendez sat by himself at a defense table Tuesday as prospective jurors who claim they can't serve at his federal New York corruption trial were interviewed by a judge in a room just outside the courtroom. Judge Sidney H. Stein has heard a variety of reasons why individuals say they should be excused from the trial of the Democrat that is projected to stretch to July.
Donald Trump's arch-foe and former personal attorney Michael Cohen will undergo grueling cross-examination Tuesday, as senior Republicans increasingly politicized the trial by attending court to support the former president.Cohen answered questions from prosecutors for more than five hours on Monday and is expected to be turned over to Trump's defense attorneys later on Tuesday for a likely combative cross-examination.
Participants in the meme-stock mania have demonstrated an almost cult-like ability to imagine scenarios where the firms' fortunes can be revived, creating astounding — and almost entirely speculative — run-ups in their share prices.
A whistleblower told The Associated Press that the Environmental Protection Agency's ASPECT plane could have provided crucial data about the chemicals spewing into the air and water around East Palestine as the wreckage burned and forced people from their homes. The man who wrote the software and helped interpret the data from the advanced radiological and infrared sensors on the plane said it also could have helped officials realize it wasn't necessary to blow open five tank cars and burn the vinyl chloride inside because the plane's sensors could have detected the cars' temperatures more accurately than the responders on the ground who were having trouble safely getting close enough to check. Robert Kroutil said even when the plane did fly, it only gathered incomplete data.
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said Tuesday that the central bank is unlikely to raise its key interest rate in response to signs of stubborn inflation and underscored his view that price increases would soon start to cool again. Powell stressed that the Fed's preferred approach was to keep its benchmark rate at its current two-decade peak rather than increase it. “I don’t think that it’s likely, based on the data that we have, that the next move that we make would be a rate hike," Powell said.
Gunmen attacked a prison van at a motorway toll in northern France on Tuesday, killing at least two prison officers and freeing a convict who had been jailed last week.The incident took place late on Tuesday morning at a road toll in Incarville in the Eure region of northern France.
The rate of assaults on American law enforcement reached a 10-year high in 2023, with more than 79,000 officer attacks reported, according to a new FBI report released Tuesday. The report analyzes data from state, local, federal and other agencies across the U.S. to determine trends in violence against law enforcement. Agencies reported 466 assaults with firearms in 2023, which is the highest level in a decade, FBI officials said.
Dangerous wildfires have scorched tens of thousands of acres and are closing in on multiple Canadian towns, forcing thousands of evacuations and degrading air quality.
April's CPI report is one of the most important data points the Federal Reserve will consider in its next interest rate decision.
Tackling corruption was the key to making democracy work in the 20th century. Trump's plans could bring back an age of graft and patronage.
US stock markets were mixed after the first of two eagerly awaited US inflation reports did not provide conclusive clues about the future direction of US interest rates.While the stock market did not appear to be betting that US interest will remain higher for longer, the dollar gained against its major rivals.
A federal appeals court has upheld a lower court's ruling that a Georgia county illegally discriminated against a sheriff's deputy by failing to pay for her gender-affirming surgery. In its ruling Monday, the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said it was tasked with determining whether a health insurance provider can be held liable under the Civil Rights Act of 1964 for denying coverage for a procedure because an employee is transgender. Houston County Sgt. Anna Lange, an investigator for the Houston County sheriff's office, had sued Sheriff Cullen Talton and the county in 2019 after she was denied coverage.
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