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Melinda French Gates says she will donate $1 billion over the next two years to support women and family rights globally. Here, French Gates speaks at the forum Empowering Women as Entrepreneurs and Leaders during the World Bank/IMF Spring Meetings at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) headquarters in Washington in April 2023.

Melinda French Gates to give $1 billion to women's rights groups

The 59-year-old says her decision to donate $1 billion was in part due to the racial gap in women's mortality rates. She most recently stepped down as co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

A person holds a sign that reads "we are all the same Mexico" at an opposition rally called to encourage voting ahead of the June 2 presidential elections, in the Zocalo, Mexico City's main square, Sunday, May 19, 2024.

Qué saber sobre las históricas elecciones que podrían llevar a una mujer a la presidencia de México

Los mexicanos votarán el domingo en unas elecciones históricas en las que entrarán en juego el género, la democracia y el populismo, mientras trazan el camino a seguir en unos comicios marcados por la violencia de los cárteles.

President-elect Donald Trump at Trump International Golf Club in Bedminster Township, N.J.

Fiscalía y defensa presentan argumentos finales en el juicio a Trump

Trump enfrenta 34 acusaciones graves de falsificar documentos empresariales, cargos punibles con hasta cuatro años de prisión.

UCLA center Bill Walton (32) shoots for two of his record 44 points against Memphis State in the final game of the NCAA college basketball tournament in St. Louis, March 26, 1973.

Bill Walton loved his bike and his hometown of San Diego. He died of cancer at age 71

He never missed a chance to celebrate his hometown.

Dancer Fana Tesfagiorgis is shown in an undated photo performing in The Black Iris Project's “A Mother’s Rite."

The Black Iris Project comes home

San Diego native Jeremy McQueen's award-winning ballet company produces original works that center Black voices — but struggled to bring his ballets home. This week, the works will be performed here for the first time.

In this photo taken May 28, 2024, the team from Chula Vista Police Department carries the Special Olympics torch. Chula Vista, Calif.

Law enforcement Torch Run kicks off in Chula Vista

They will converge on California State University, Long Beach, on June 8 to light the cauldron at the Special Olympics Southern California's Summer Games.

Girls at a primary school in Sheno, Ethiopia. In partnership with UNICEF, the Sheno Primary School developed a program to educate both girls and boys about menstruation — and provide sanitary pads. A new UNICEF report says that only 39% of the world's schools offer such instruction.

Teaching girls (and boys) about menstruation takes moxie

A pioneering program in Ethiopia teaches all students about this "taboo" topic. A new UNICEF report, released on “World Menstrual Hygiene Day," assesses how countries respond to menstrual issues.

People sunbathing and lounging on the beach at La Jolla Children's Pool beach on May 23, 2020.

Water contact closures, advisories listed for San Diego County beaches

San Diego County health officials have released an updated water contact closure and advisory list Tuesday for county beaches

A Caravaggio painting entitled <em>Ecce Homo</em>, which was recently verified as a work of the Italian master after being mistakenly attributed to another artist, is pictured on display at the Prado museum in Madrid, Spain, on May 27.

See the newly verified Caravaggio painting going on display in Spain

The painting, entitled Ecce Homo, was attributed to a different artist when it went to auction in 2021, but the Prado museum says it has now been verified as a lost work of the Italian master.

Approximately one in every three births in the U.S. occurs as the result of a C-section.

After a traumatic C-section, journalist takes on the medicalization of birth

When Rachel Somerstein had an emergency C-section with her first child, the anesthesia didn't work. She recounts her own experience and the history of C-sections in her book, Invisible Labor.

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