BILL GATES

While many agree those dealing in philanthropy have great intentions, skeptics argue whether charity from the wealthy is actually honest.

Asia’s richest man, coal magnate Gautam Adani, made his vast fortune betting on coal as an energy hungry India grew swiftly after its economy was liberalized in the 1990s.

Only scattered challenges to certification of the midterm election have been reported in the United States, and not a single one is based on any problems with the accuracy of the results.

Kari Lake, the defeated Republican candidate for Arizona governor, has filed a public records lawsuit demanding Maricopa County hand over a variety of documents related to the election.

Lake, a close ally of former President Donald Trump who has refused to acknowledge President Joe Biden won the 2020 election, has not yet conceded the governor's race.

Outgoing Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey says his Republican administration will ensure an orderly transition to Democrat Katie Hobbs.

The Microsoft co-founder's LinkedIn post aimed to raise awareness of poor sanitation, an issue that he said affected about 3.6 billion people.

Philanthropic foundations have made some new commitments at the U.N. climate conference in Egypt over the past two weeks.

Several SpaceX employees who were fired after circulating an open letter calling out CEO Elon Musk’s behavior have filed a complaint accusing the company of violating labor laws.

Bill Gates, currently visiting Kenya, has announced his foundation will spend $7 billion to improve health, gender equality and farming in Africa

Bill Gates, on a visit to Kenya, has announced his foundation will spend $7 billion to improve health, gender equality and farming in Africa.

Defeated Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake says she’s assembling lawyers and collecting evidence of voters who had trouble casting ballots as she considers her next move.

Some people who filed harassment or discrimination complaints indicated they could be hurting their career prospects, an issue Microsoft is working to address.

Maricopa County Board of Supervisors Chairman Bill Gates explains how voters "were afraid to put their ballot in box 3 because of what the leaders of their party had told them."

Officials in Arizona’s most populous county have become adept at batting down slanted, false or nearly false claims about how they ran last week’s election and are counting ballots.

When the Republican candidate for Arizona governor accused the state’s most populous county of “slow-rolling” the vote count to skew early election results, a local official fired back. “Quite frankly, it is offensive for Kari Lake to say that these people behind me are slow-rolling this, when they’re working 14 to 18 hours” every day, said Bill Gates, the Republican chairman of the Maricopa County board of supervisors. Gates and other election officials in Arizona's most populous county have been aggressively batting down rumors and slanted and false claims as vote counting comes under intense scrutiny in the battleground state.

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos said in an interview with CNN that he will give away the majority of his wealth during his lifetime.

Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs is maintaining her lead over GOP candidate Kari Lake in the latest round of ballots reported from Maricopa County.

About protests vs. voting tabulation process, supervisors Chairman Bill Gates said on Nov. 12, 2022: "The eyes of the world are on Maricopa County."

On Tuesday, equipment malfunctioned at scores of polling places in Maricopa County, already a hotbed of election denialism. Would local officials be able to reassure the public?

"This is very, very common,” a Maricopa County leader said. “I know people are very anxious to get the results but there is nothing out of the ordinary here.”

Maricopa County gave an update on Friday afternoon on how many ballots it expects to have counted by its evening update and how many are left in total.

Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly has won his bid for reelection in the crucial swing state of Arizona.

"Quite frankly it is offensive for Kari Lake to say that these people behind me are slow-rolling this," says Bill Gates, Maricopa County Board of Supervisors Chairman.

Three states are left to decide the balance of power Senate. Here's what's happening in Arizona.

Election officials, who long expected the vote count to take as many as 12 days, say ballot printer issues are not slowing results.

Works by artists including Cézanne, Seurat, and van Gogh sold for a record-breaking $1.5 billion during the first part of Christie’s two-day auction of the late Microsoft co-founder Paul G.

Arizona election officials in Maricopa County begin a hand count audit to verify the accuracy of the tabulation machine as votes continue to be tallied.

Democrats are holding on to narrow leads in key Arizona contests, but the races for U.S. Senate and governor are still too early to call.

A statement addressing Election Day voting machine delays in Arizona has been released by Maricopa County Elections Department officials, amid a lawsuit from Republican candidates.

Margins between Democrats and Republicans have narrowed considerably in key Arizona races.

Maricopa County Supervisor Bill Gates apologized for vote tabulation machine errors that caused problems on Election Day, but insisted that there was no foul play.

Election officials assured voters that every ballot would be counted after a printing malfunction at about one-quarter of the polling places across Arizona’s most populous county slowed down voting.

Election officials in Maricopa County, Arizona say they have found a solution to problems with voting tabulators that had affected roughly 20% of their polling sites.

Maricopa is one of the most populous counties in Arizona and where elections for governor and U.S. Senate are expected to be close. According to Bill Gates, the chairman of the county’s Board of Supervisors, 20% of voting locations were experiencing issues with tabulators. Despite the problems, the county retains paper ballots so that votes will be counted, he said.

Officials say the votes will still be counted, thanks to their redundancy protocols, but the machine malfunctions were quickly used by right-leaning influencers to fuel claims of fraud.

Officials from Maricopa County in Arizona have reported that tabulators in 20% of the county's polling sites are experiencing 'issues.'

Election officials assured voters that there are redundancies in place to ensure they can vote at polling places with malfunctioning machines.

Officials from Maricopa County, the most populous in Arizona, addressed the 2022 midterm elections.

What happens when a prolific user of social media buys the platform.

The Oath Keeper hoping to run Arizona’s elections is getting outspent almost 50-to-1 and makes few press campaign appearances. He still might pull it off.

Two new books tout the many wonders of the trendy sport. Can they convince a skeptical reader?

Emissions measurement and tracking are still nascent, and there's a general lack of clarity in the vocabulary used.

"It's time to start accepting reality and that we're not going to be able to do this fast enough, the ship is too big, it's too hard to steer," said Eric Toone.

The sheriff in metropolitan Phoenix says he’s stepped up security around ballot drop boxes after a series of incidents involving people keeping watch on the boxes and taking video of voters after they were apparently inspired by lies about the 2020 election.

Gates said there is a modest number of companies that will drive down the cost of choosing clean technology over alternatives that emit more greenhouse gases.

Bill Gates says "it is both unrealistic and unfair" to expect developing economies to sacrifice the betterment of their own people to stop global warming.

Here are four key considerations to help prepare for the biggest wealth transfer ever, according to CNBC's top-ranked financial advisors.

In 2021, Gautam Adani was not on the top 10 list of the world's richest people. But in 2022, the Indian billionaire settled in behind Jeff Bezos and Bernard Arnault as No. 4.

Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates combined characteristic optimism with sobering questions about persistent gender inequality and hunger at an event the Gateses’ foundation convened on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly.

The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria will get some high-powered help this week to reach its $18 billion goal to fund another three years to slow the spread of these diseases.

The far-right forces that former Sen. John McCain successfully marginalized within the Arizona Republican Party are back and in full control, with profound implications for one of the nation’s most closely matched battlegrounds.

As the world is still economically recovering from the COVID pandemic, Bill Gates worries that finding funding to assist countries with public health issues will only get harder.

Talking with Bill Gates about progress, the best news in the world, and the future of food

Bill Gates says the global hunger crisis is so immense that food aid cannot fully address the problem.

Local election officials preparing for the rapidly approaching midterm elections have one more headache: trying to combat misinformation that can confuse, anger and disenfranchise voters.

One of the most valuable lessons Chris Capossela learned from Gates — and one of his secrets for success, he shares — is the importance of time management.

Warren Buffett's company has trimmed its investment in Chinese electric car and battery maker BYD for the first time since it bought 225 million shares in 2008, an investment that has soared in value.

Some 150 artworks from the collection of Microsoft co-founder Paul G.

Billionaire Bill Gates, a longtime collaborator with Dr. Anthony Fauci, praised the 81-year-old immunologist and public servant following his latest career news.

As the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation works to expand its governance, it announced Thursday that it has added two trustees to its board.

Bill Gates is calling for South Korea to become more involved in international efforts to prevent infectious diseases like COVID-19 and is stressing the need for the world to be better prepared for the next pandemic.

TerraPower, the nuclear innovation company founded by Bill Gates, announced a $750 million funding raise co-led by Gates himself and SK Group from South Korea.

A major economic bill headed to the president has “game-changing” incentives for the nuclear energy industry, experts say, and those tax credits are even more substantial if a facility is sited in a community with a coal plant that's closing.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.