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March 7, 2021 at 5:17 pm

MacKenzie Scott, a Philanthropist and Ex-Wife of Jeff Bezos, Remarries

Billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott has remarried after her high-profile divorce from Amazon’s founder, Jeff Bezos. In a letter posted to the website of the philanthropy...

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**EMBARGO: No electronic distribution, Web posting or street sales before 3:01 a.m. ET MONDAY, NOV. 23, 2020. No exceptions for any reasons. EMBARGO set by source.** FILE — Bill Gates speaks at the New York Times DealBook conference in New York on Nov. 6, 2019. The billionaire is working with the W.H.O., drugmakers and nonprofits to eradicate the coronavirus everywhere, including in the world’s poorest nations. (Calla Kessler/The New York Times) XNYT60 XNYT60

November 23, 2020 at 12:01 am

Inside Bill Gates’ high-stakes quest to vaccinate the world against COVID-19

Gates became interested in immunizations in the late 1990s, and he has also been intensely plugged in to efforts to fight the coronavirus pandemic. He's...

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April 18, 2020 at 11:00 am

An overlooked coronavirus crisis: A dire need for dialysis

For weeks, U.S. government officials and hospital executives have warned of a looming shortage of ventilators as the coronavirus pandemic descended. But now doctors are...

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March 29, 2020 at 11:10 am

The U.S. tried to build a new fleet of ventilators. The mission failed.

Thirteen years ago, a group of U.S. public health officials came up with a plan to address what they regarded as one of the medical...

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Democratic presidential candidate and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg talks to supporters Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2020 in Detroit. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio) MICO103 MICO103

February 15, 2020 at 11:59 am

Bloomberg’s billions: How the candidate built an empire of influence

NEW YORK — In the fall of 2018, Emily’s List had a dilemma. With congressional elections approaching and the Supreme Court confirmation battle over Judge...

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July 9, 2018 at 5:47 pm

Human smuggling cat-and-mouse game plays out beyond the U.S.-Mexico border

The Border Patrol is charged with stopping migrants from illegally crossing the border and, more important, getting into the interior of the U.S. Getting through...

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March 5, 2017 at 10:40 am

Visas in hand, Afghan family detained en route to Washington state

An Afghan family of five that had received approval to move to the United States based on the father’s work for the U.S. government was...

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January 28, 2017 at 11:07 am

Judge blocks part of Trump’s immigration order

A federal judge blocked part of President Trump’s executive order on immigration on Saturday evening, ordering that refugees and others trapped at airports across the...

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Lufthansa CEO Carsten Spohr, second left, and Germanwings CEO Thomas Winkelmann, third left, arrive at the Cologne Cathedral in Cologne, Germany, Friday, April 17, 2015. A mourning ceremony will be held in the Cathedral in memory of the 150 victims of the Germanwings plane crash last month in the French Alps.(AP Photo/Frank Augstein) FAS106

April 18, 2015 at 5:20 pm

Unfit to fly: Industrywide, pilots with mental illness slip by

Andreas Lubitz’s journey to his final flight at the controls of Germanwings Flight 9525 exposed a series of failures and weaknesses at Lufthansa and throughout...

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November 6, 2014 at 7:27 pm

Navy SEALs can’t agree on who killed bin Laden

Who killed Osama bin Laden? A former member of the Navy SEALs has come forward claiming to have shot the al-Qaida leader during the daring...

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