BILL GATES

Despite a discredited election review and false claims about the 2020 election, this year's primary, coming up on Tuesday, isn't all that different in Arizona's biggest county.

The funds will support public health and climate adaption, Gates said, as he reduces his fortune so he is no longer among the world’s wealthiest people.

Energy transition and carbon-neutral power production are for real, but there is no technology today that can replace nuclear power, says Duke Energy's CEO.

The donation brings the foundation's endowment to about $70 billion.

Bill Gates, concerned about the “significant suffering” caused by global setbacks including the COVID-19 pandemic, announced Wednesday that he will donate $20 billion to his foundation so it can increase its annual spending.

Bill Gates, concerned about the “significant suffering” caused by global setbacks including the COVID-19 pandemic, announced Wednesday that he will donate $20 billion to his foundation so it can increase its annual spending. The donation, combined with longtime board member Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett's $3.1 billion gift last month, brings The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation's endowment to approximately $70 billion, making it one of the largest, if not the largest in the world, depending on daily stock valuations. In an essay on the foundation's website, Bill Gates said he hopes “others in positions of great wealth and privilege will step up in this moment too.”

The WTA women’s professional tennis tour and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation are partnering to raise awareness about — and money for — women’s health and nutrition around the world.

Phoebe Gates, the daughter of Bill Gates, is rumored to be seeing a Black man, sparking discussions on social media regarding interracial and interclass dating.

The trade association for U.S. nuclear plant operators says it hopes to nearly double their output over the next three decades.

Billionaires Ray Dalio, Bill Gates and Jack Dorsey leveraged the skills they learned as teenagers into influential — and lucrative — careers. Here's how.

A report in The New York Times says the rocket ship company run by Tesla CEO Elon Musk has fired several employees involved in an open letter that blasted the colorful billionaire for his behavior.

Security flaws, antitrust memories and slower speed dragged down Internet Explorer as Google Chrome came to rule. Now Microsoft is promoting its Edge browser.

The tech billionaire said he's "not involved" in crypto: "I'm not long or short any of those things."

Bill Gates' summer 2022 reading recommendations don't "exactly sound like the stuff of beach reads," the billionaire writes. Here's why they made his list anyway.

Musk reiterated his criticism of Bill Gates and advised Jeff Bezos to spend "less time in the hot tub" and partying "if he wants to get to orbit."

During a Reddit "Ask Me Anything" session, the billionaire Microsoft co-founder was asked what advice he'd offer to a young person looking to "make a positive impact on this world."

In a Reddit "ask me anything" session on Thursday, Bill Gates shared how individuals can help solve climate change with their consumption decisions.

"I don't know why they think I'm interested in knowing people's locations — that one I still have to laugh at," Gates said.

Bill Gates has a strategy to save the world from the next infectious threat. He’s not the first.

Billionaire philanthropist reports having mild symptoms, tweeting he is "fortunate to be vaccinated and boosted."

The 66-year-old wrote in a tweet Tuesday that he is experiencing mild symptoms and is "following the experts' advice" by isolating himself until he's healthy.

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates says he has tested positive for COVID-19 and is experiencing mild symptoms.

Gates believes factors like Russia's war in Ukraine and pandemic fallout create a "strong argument" that the world will see an economic slowdown soon.

Bill Gates has warned that Elon Musk could make Twitter worse after the Tesla CEO pledged to buy the social media firm for $44 billion.

A Ukrainian nurse who lost her legs and four fingers in the war, was held by her husband during their wedding dance.

A year after Bill and Melinda Gates announced in a joint statement that they were getting divorced after 27 years, Bill Gates reflected on the breakup and

Bill Gates says the World Health Organization needs to launch a global surveillance team to quickly identify disease outbreaks before they become the next pandemic.

"At the time, I didn't realize that, by having those meetings, it would be seen as giving him credibility," Gates said about his meetings with Epstein.

Brash, outspoken and sometimes juvenile, Elon Musk has long been a prolific user of Twitter, the social media platform he now hopes to buy.

Duck Ledges Island is a serene oasis with an unexpected backstory

In a tweet on Friday, the Tesla CEO admitted that he asked Gates if he was short-selling shares of the electric carmaker.

Gates' 2015 TED talk, in which he said the world was "not ready for the next epidemic," has more than 36 million views on YouTube today.

Bill Gates addressed TED2022 in Vancouver, Canada, where anti-vaccine protesters have gathered to falsely accuse him of orchestrating the pandemic.

There are 87 fewer billionaires on this year's list than in 2021, and their total wealth dipped by $400 billion, the outlet reported.

The “Billionaire Minimum Income Tax” included in President Joe Biden's proposed budget is part of the administration’s effort to reduce the federal deficit.

In a February 2021 interview, Bill Gates said he wasn't "bullish" on bitcoin, particularly because of the decentralized and volatile nature of the altcoin.

Unlike the other members of the top-five who have all lost money this year, Warren Buffett has actually seen his fortune grow by $7.8 billion.

After 27 years together, Melinda French Gates and Bill Gates announced their split last May.

She told Gayle King on CBS Mornings that she met Epstein "exactly one time" which she "regretted the second I stepped in the door."

In the latest rounds of sanctions hitting Russia following the invasion of Ukraine, the European Union has removed 7 banks from the SWIFT system, which supports global financial transactions. Politico national security reporter and author of the "National Security Daily" newsletter Alex Ward joins "CBS News Mornings" to discuss.

Ludovic Marin/AFP via GettyMelinda French Gates acknowledged in an interview on Thursday that her divorce from Bill Gates came about in part because of his relationship with the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.“It was many things. But I did not like that he’d had meetings with Jeffrey Epstein,” she told CBS Mornings’ Gayle King. “I made that clear to him.”French Gates said she met the sex offender “exactly one time, because I wanted to see who this man was. And I regretted it from the sec

Melinda and Bill were married for 27 years before announcing their split last May.

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates doesn't seem to mind wearing a mask as a Covid prevention strategy, likening it to putting on pants before leaving the house.

At the 2022 Munich Security Conference, Bill Gates said the world could avoid future pandemics if it follows Australia's Covid-19 mitigation blueprint.

Health officials on Long Island say they have detected bird flu in Suffolk County.

In interview with POLITICO, the billionaire philanthropist lays out a battle plan that goes beyond responding to the coronavirus.

The Microsoft cofounder said in an interview with CNBC Friday that a rational response would help catch the next pandemic early.

"We'll have another pandemic. It will be a different pathogen next time," Bill Gates told CNBC.

CNBC's Hadley Gamble discusses what needs to happen to bring an end to the pandemic with Bill Gates and others at the Munich Security Conference.

Pakistan awarded Microsoft co-founder and billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates its second-highest civilian honor on Thursday, in recognition of his work to alleviate poverty and diseases like polio and tuberculosis. On a daylong visit to the capital, Islamabad, Gates was given the prestigious Hilal-e-Pakistan award by President Arif Alvi in a televised ceremony, after he met with Prime Minister Imran Khan at his office. “Pakistan’s commitment to ending polio is inspiring,” Gates said in a statement released by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Founded in 2018, Antora Energy takes zero emissions energy from wind and solar farms and converts it to heat, which it stores in solid carbon blocks.

The largest public power company in the United States is launching a program to develop and fund new small modular nuclear reactors as part of its strategy to dramatically reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Syrian migrants talk about poor living standards in Cyprus, while local authorities say they want to relocate some of them from a housing complex in the west of the Mediterranean island.

A handful of Americans donated at least $1 billion to charity last year, according to the Chronicle of Philanthropy’s annual ranking of the 50 Americans who gave the most to charity in 2021.

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Are we living through a replay of the ’90s, when most people just didn’t get “this internet thing”?

Multiple death investigations loom over the Murdaughs, including the deaths of two of their own. The South Carolina family has held power for generations.

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and the Japan Atomic Energy Agency have signed an agreement to participate in a next-generation nuclear energy project with TerraPower, a company started by Bill Gates.

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation announced Wednesday it will add four new members to its board of trustees.

Elon Musk — the world's richest man — has lost $27 billion year-to-date, and is now worth $243 billion after hitting a high in November of more than $300 billion.

Calls to waive the patents on mRNA Covid vaccines have gained traction globally, but experts seriously doubt that they will ever come to be.

Government and business leaders have urged global cooperation on climate change, the coronavirus pandemic and the economic recovery at the World Economic Forum’s virtual gathering this week.

New German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has called for a “paradigm shift” in the way the world approaches climate policy, saying his country would leverage its presidency of the Group of Seven industrial nations to push for standards to fight global warming.

A tiny Wyoming town faces transformation when a company started by Bill Gates builds a new type of nuclear power plant there.

Many states in the U.S. are coming to the conclusion that solar, wind and other renewable power sources might not be enough to keep the lights on as they seek to dramatically cut their use of fossil fuels.

Anti-poverty group Oxfam has called for governments to impose a one-time 99% tax on the world’s billionaires and use the money to fund expanded vaccine production for the poor.

The coronavirus pandemic has forced the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting of world leaders, business executives and other heavyweights to go virtual for the second year in a row.

Microsoft says it is opening an inquiry into how it responds to workplace sexual harassment and gender discrimination.

In a story published December 31, 2021, about the top charitable donations of the year, The Chronicle of Philanthropy erroneously reported the value of Microsoft stock donated by Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates in 2000.

The Giving Pledge announced Tuesday that 14 more billionaires, including the CEOs of DoorDash and Pinterest, had promised in 2021 to donate more than half their fortunes, bringing the total to 231 philanthropists from 28 countries.

Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates say they will still work with the Giving Pledge.

Former President Barack Obama’s foundation announced that it has received a $100 million donation from Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, which it says is the largest individual contribution it has received to date.

A rare first printing of the U.S. Constitution has sold at Sotheby’s in New York for $43.2 million, a record price for a document or book sold at auction.

A small city in the top U.S. coal-mining state of Wyoming will be home to a Bill Gates-backed experimental nuclear power project near a coal-fired power plant scheduled to close soon.

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation says it will spend $120 million to boost access to generic versions of drugmaker Merck’s antiviral COVID-19 pill for lower income countries, if the drug gets approved by regulators.

The United Kingdom is hosting a meeting aimed at attracting billions of dollars in foreign investment for green projects in Britain.

Microsoft has confirmed that executives in 2008 warned Bill Gates to stop sending flirtatious emails to a female employee but dropped the matter after he told them he would stop.

After years of avoiding it personally, CNN's Anderson Cooper explores in a book the complicated legacy of the Vanderbilt family — what he calls America's version of “The Crown."

A Republican-backed election review in Arizona's largest county has failed to come up with proof to support former President Donald Trump's false claims of a stolen election.

Supporters of former President Donald Trump who were hired by Arizona Senate Republicans to review the 2020 vote count are preparing to deliver their findings.

Have you heard the one about climate change.

Officials are touting faint progress on money, but little on pollution at a United Nations world leader summit on climate change.

Board members overseeing Arizona’s most populous county have reached a deal with the Republican-controlled state Senate that will end a standoff over its demand that they hand over computer routers for use in an unprecedented partisan election review.

Philanthropist MacKenzie Scott has funded organizations that received the most money for racial equity in 27 different states following the police killing of George Floyd.

Leaders of the Gates and Rockefeller Foundations — grant makers that have committed billions of dollars to fight the coronavirus — are warning that without larger government and philanthropic investments in the manufacture and delivery of vaccines to people in poor nations, the pandemic could set back global progress on education, public health, and gender equality for years.

John Hoffman and Janet Tobias’ “Fauci” is the first big-screen documentary of the nation’s top infectious disease expert and ubiquitous face of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Washington’s Supreme Court has issued a key decision that helps protect people who are living in their vehicles from having them towed.

The divorce of Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates has been finalized.

Jessica Springsteen had no luck going solo in Tokyo.

Philanthropists Melinda French Gates, MacKenzie Scott and the family foundation of billionaire Lynn Schusterman awarded $40 million Thursday to four gender equality projects.

Australian equestrians are excited to still be able to compete at the Tokyo Olympics.

A British man has been charged in the United States in connection with a Twitter hack last summer that compromised the accounts of prominent politicians, celebrities and technology moguls.

Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates will continue to work together as co-chairs of their foundation even after their planned divorce.

Newly released records show the top Republicans in Arizona’s largest county dodged calls from Donald Trump and his allies in the aftermath of the 2020 election, as the then-president sought to prevent the certification of Joe Biden’s victory in key battleground states.

Warren Buffett resigned Wednesday as trustee of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which says it will announce plans in July to answer questions raised about its leadership structure.

Republicans in Congress are alarmed by the leak of confidential IRS data to ProPublica that has enabled the investigative news organization to reveal that famous billionaires including Warren Buffett, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg paid little in U.S. income tax at times.

The richest 25 Americans pay less in tax — 15.8% of adjusted gross income — than many ordinary workers do, once you include taxes for Social Security and Medicare, the nonprofit investigative journalism organization ProPublica found.

Despite damaging allegations suggesting Bill Gates pursued women who worked for him, don’t expect changes to his roles at the two iconic institutions he co-founded, Microsoft and his namesake philanthropic foundation, raising accountability concerns from critics.

The top Republicans in Arizona’s largest county gave an impassioned defense of their handling of the 2020 election.

As much as billionaire couple Bill and Melinda Gates want to keep their pending divorce private, the split is already sending shockwaves through the worlds of philanthropy and public health.