MacKenzie Bezos promises to give half her fortune to charity
MacKenzie Bezos' divorce from Jeff Bezos earlier this year leaves her with a 4% stake currently worth more than $36 billion in the online shopping giant.
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Investment in Africa needed to keep extreme poverty on the wane, Bill and Melinda Gates say
For all of the progress made in fighting poverty and disease in recent years, those strides could stall because of rapid population growth in some African countries, according to a new warning from the Gates Foundation. Bill and Melinda Gates…
Bill Gates and top investors launch $1 billion clean energy fund
The Breakthrough Energy Ventures fund, which Bill Gates will chair and run with a host of other high-profile investors, is focused on clean energy technology.
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‘I am the president, he is the Boss’: Obama pays tribute to, jokes with Medal of Freedom recipients
At the White House, President Obama handed out the Medal of Freedom to twenty-one notable American figures, from Kareem Abdul Jabbar to Bill and Melinda Gates, Diana Ross, Michael Jordan, Vin Scully, Bruce Springsteen, Robert Redford, and many others.
Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, the White House and global leaders have launched two international, multi-billion dollar funds to develop clean energy technologies.
Wednesday on the NewsHour, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton says she does not support the Trans-Pacific Partnership. Also: Bill and Melinda Gates discuss their efforts in education, how California’s drought is causing the state to sink and recording artist Josh…
Bill and Melinda Gates, two of the world’s leading philanthropists, sit down with Gwen Ifill in Seattle to discuss their efforts to support education reform and the political battles over the Common Core standards.
Tonight PBS NewsHour Anchor Gwen Ifill talks with Bill and Melinda Gates about their foundation’s influence on American public education and what they’ve learned in 15 years of supporting sometimes controversial reforms.
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