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Ann Lurie, a self-described hippie who later became one of Chicago's most celebrated philanthropists, in one case donating more than $100 million to a hospital where she once worked as a pediatric nurse, died Monday. She was 79 years old.Her death was announced in a statement from Northwestern University, to which Ms. Lurie, a trustee, had donated more than $60 million. The statement did not say where she died or give a cause.An only child raised in Miami by a single mother, Ms. Lurie protested the Vietnam War while in college and planned to join the Peace Corps after graduation. In interviews, she said that she chafed at the trappings of wealth herself after marrying Robert H. Lurie.Mr. Lurie had built a real estate and investment empire as a partner in Equity Group Investments, wor...

As negotiations to end the long legal battle between WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and the United States reached a critical point this spring, prosecutors presented his lawyers with a choice so wild that one person involved thought it sounded like a line from a Monty Python movie.“Guam or Saipan?”It wasn't a joke. He had been told that his path to freedom would pass through one of two American islands in the blue expanse of the Pacific Ocean.Mr. Assange, who feared lifelong imprisonment in the United States, had long insisted on a condition of any plea deal: never to set foot in the country. The U.S. government, in turn, had required Mr. Assange to plead guilty to a felony for violating the Espionage Act, which required him to appear before a federal judge.In April, a lawyer from t...

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In January 2020, Robert Williams spent 30 hours in a Detroit jail because facial recognition technology suggested he was a criminal. The match was wrong, and Mr. Williams sued.On Friday, as part of a legal settlement over his wrongful arrest, Mr. Williams won a commitment from the Detroit Police Department to do better. The city adopted new rules for police use of facial recognition technology that the American Civil Liberties Union, which represented Mr. Williams, said should become the new national standard.“We hope this moves the needle in the right direction,” Mr Williams said.Mr. Williams was the first known person to be wrongfully arrested because of faulty facial recognition. But he wasn’t the last. Detroit police have arrested at least two other people following botched facial rec...

A heart surgeon, a former Tehran mayor and a cleric implicated in the execution of political prisoners are among six candidates approved by authorities to run in Iran’s election on Friday to replace the president who died in a helicopter crash last month.Candidates renounced the application of hijab in Iran. They addressed American sanctions that have contributed to the country's struggling economy, and openly criticized the government during a series of debates, an unusual move in Iranian politics. However, voter apathy in the country is high and divisions among conservative leaders make it difficult to predict the outcome.Although Iran's supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, has ultimate authority over major state issues, the president sets domestic policy and can influence foreign pol...

The Biden administration said this week that it opposes gender reaffirmation surgeries for minors, the most explicit statement yet on the topic from a president who has always been a staunch supporter of transgender rights.The White House announcement was sent to The New York Times on Wednesday in response to a story reporting that staffers in the office of Adm. Rachel Levine, assistant secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, had urged an influential international transgender health organization to remove age minimums for surgery from its guidelines for treating minors.The draft guidelines would have lowered the minimum age to 14 for hormone treatments, 15 for mastectomies, 16 for breast augmentation or facial surgery, and 17 for genital surgery or hysterectomy. The final...

Rishi Sunak's gamble was considerable. Five weeks ago, Britain's prime minister gambled on his belief that a summer election would give his Conservative Party a better chance of holding on to power than waiting until the autumn.Calling an early election was Sunak's last roll of the dice. But it has since emerged that in the days before May 22, in the pouring rain, he announced to the country that he would go to the polls, a number of colleagues and subordinates were placing bets of a more literal kind.Looking at data from the week before Mr Sunak's announcement, bookmakers noticed a spike in bets placed on the election date. The amounts staked were small, totaling just a few thousand pounds, but the sudden flurry of activity was enough to warrant further investigation.Th...

What does AI sound like? Hollywood has been imagining it for decades. Now AI developers are copying the movies, creating voices for real machines based on outdated movie fantasies about how machines should talk.Last month, OpenAI revealed updates to its artificially intelligent chatbot. ChatGPT, the company said, is learning to hear, see and converse in a naturalistic voice, much like the disembodied operating system voiced by Scarlett Johansson in Spike Jonze’s 2013 film “Her.”ChatGPT’s voice, called Sky, also had a raspy timbre, a soothing effect, and a sexy edge. She was friendly and shy; she seemed ready for anything. After Sky’s debut, Johansson expressed disappointment that she sounded “eerily similar” and said she had previously rejected OpenAI’s request to voice the bot. The compan...

Early in the war against Hamas, as Israeli forces made their way from the northern Gaza Strip to the south, a neighborhood of Gaza City called Shajaiye loomed over the battle. In December, nine soldiers were killed there in what the Israeli army said was one of the deadliest days of the war for its forces.Later, with Shajaiye devastated and Gaza city apparently pacified, soldiers moved in, eventually taking the fighting to Gaza's southernmost city, Rafah, described as Hamas's last major stronghold. In turn, Palestinian civilians who had fled the fighting in Gaza City began to return.On Thursday they were on the run again.Israel ordered people in part of eastern Gaza City to evacuate as Palestinian officials and residents reported heavy attacks and numerous casualties. People in ...

On the surface, abortion rights have had a good run on the Supreme Court this term. Two weeks ago, the justices unanimously let the abortion pill remain widely available. On Thursday, the court rejected a case over Idaho’s strict abortion ban, which has had the effect of allowing the state’s emergency rooms to perform the procedure when a patient’s health is at risk.But the two rulings were so technical as to be ephemeral. They seemed designed to evade and delay, to kick a shaky argument down the road — or at least after Election Day.Some abortion-rights advocates have called the rulings Pyrrhic victories, fearing they would pave the way for further restrictions, either by the courts or by a second Trump administration.In Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, the 2022 decision ...