Simone Biles of World Champions Centre poses for a photo with her gold medal and commemorative belt buckle after finishing in first in the women’s 2024 Xfinity U.S. Gymnastics Championships at Dickies Arena. Mandatory Credit: Jerome Miron-USA TODAY Sports PARIS — American women from Simone Biles to Katie Ledecky and Sha’Carri Richardson will dominate the…
Ann Lurie, a self-described hippie who went on to become one of Chicago’s most celebrated philanthropists, in one instance giving more than $100 million to a hospital where she had once worked as a pediatric nurse, died on Monday. She was 79. Her death was announced in a statement by Northwestern University, to which Ms….
In 2021, David Sacks, a prominent venture capital investor and podcast host, said former President Donald J. Trump’s behavior around the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol had disqualified him from being a future political candidate. At a tech conference last week, Mr. Sacks said his view had changed. “I have bigger disagreements with…
Brooke Ellison, who after being paralyzed from the neck down by a childhood car accident went on to graduate from Harvard and became a professor and devoted disability rights advocate, died on Sunday in Stony Brook, N.Y. She was 45. Her death, in a hospital, was caused by complications of quadriplegia, her mother, Jean Ellison,…
