$1 Billion Donation Will Provide Free Tuition at a Bronx Medical School
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 going forward. The donor, Ruth Gottesman, is a former professor at Einstein, where she studied learning disabilities, developed a […]
Biden Cancels $1.2 Billion in Student Loan Debt for 150,000 Borrowers
After the Supreme Court struck down President Biden’s plan to cancel billions of dollars in student loan debt, borrowers wondered how he would make good on his promise to tackle debt burdening millions of Americans. The answer: He would do it bit by bit. Mr. Biden on Wednesday canceled $1.2 billion in student loan debt, […]
EU Agrees to $54 Billion Fund for Ukraine
Some European leaders jested they’d send Prime Minister Viktor Orban of Hungary their hotel bills for the extra nights they had to spend in Brussels to convince him to support funding for Ukraine. Others, less jokingly, relayed to him he was facing the risk of a legal suspension from E.U. proceedings. And a few offered […]
World Cup final LIVE: A billion Indians hope for cricket glory
Getty ImagesCopyright: Getty Images Despite being one of the top teams in Tests, one-day internationals and T20 matches, India has flopped in the knockout stages in almost all ICC tournaments – across formats – since 2013. And 10 years is a long time to wait for a title – they last won the Champions Trophy […]
Home Sellers Win $1.8 Billion After Jury Finds Conspiracy Among Realtors
A federal jury ruled on Tuesday that the powerful National Association of Realtors and several large brokerages had conspired to artificially inflate the commissions paid to real estate agents, a decision that could radically alter the home-buying process in the United States. The realtors’ group and brokerages were ordered to pay damages of nearly $1.8 […]