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New German Chancellor Olaf Scholz 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 this year 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.

In this sleepy Wyoming town that has relied on coal for over a century, a company founded by the man who revolutionized personal computing is launching an ambitious project to counter climate change: A nationwide reboot of nuclear energy technology. Until recently, Kemmerer was little-known for anything except J.C. Penney's first store and some 55-million-year-old fish fossils in quarries down the road. Then in November, a company started by Bill Gates, TerraPower, announced it had chosen Kemmerer for a nontraditional, sodium-cooled nuclear reactor that will bring on workers from a local coal-fired power plant scheduled to close soon.

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.

Microsoft shareholders overwhelmingly supported a shareholder initiative on sexual harassment. The woman behind the proposal says it's a sign of progress.

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.

The report will summarize findings of an investigation into Bill Gates, after years of concerns workers raised on the company's handling of harassment cases.

Breakthrough Energy Catalyst, a fund backed by Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates, is planning to invest up to $15 billion in clean tech projects.

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is opting out of setting a New Year's resolution for 2022. Here's why one clinical psychology expert says that's a smart move.

A 15-minute video, restored and posted online, features a 39-year-old Bill Gates discussing the founding of Microsoft and collaborations with future rival Apple.

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.

It was a healthy year for big gifts to charitable causes in 2021, a year that saw one of the largest multibillion-dollar contributions in more than a decade, according to a Chronicle of Philanthropy tally. The power philanthropists Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates announced in May that they were divorcing and then gave a jaw-dropping $15 billion to their foundation in July. The money will bolster its endowment and support the grant maker’s work in global health, development, policy and advocacy, and U.S. education well into the future.

Heading into 2022, the 10 wealthiest individuals in the world are all worth more than $100 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.

In his end-of-year blog post, the billionaire Microsoft co-founder said he'll keep fighting Covid—while also trying to stop the next pandemic before it starts.

In his end-of-year blog post, billionaire Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates expressed deep concern about declining trust in governments across the world. Here's why.

"Someday the pandemic will end, and the better we look after each other, the sooner that time will come," Gates said on Twitter Tuesday.

Web3 "seems more marketing buzzword than reality right now," Musk tweeted.

On Wednesday, Barack Obama posted his favorite books of 2021, including essays, memoirs and historical fiction novels — and they all have something in common.

Epidemiologists and infectious disease experts say Covid-19 could become endemic, ending the pandemic, in 2022. Here's what 'normal' life might look like soon.

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.

Covid could become an endemic illness in 2022. Here's what Dr. Anthony Fauci, Bill Gates and others say that could look like — and how the U.S. can get there.

In a year-end blog post, billionaire Bill Gates predicted the use of the metaverse to replicate being face-to-face with co-workers, even while working from home.

"We're in a much better position to create updated vaccines if they're needed," Gates wrote in a year-end review.

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

The rare vote for an activist initiative comes after a board-level investigation into co-founder Bill Gates' activities almost two decades earlier.

Every holiday season, billionaire Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates recommends some of his favorite recent books. This year's list include an emphasis on science-fiction.

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.

Bill Gates says vaccines and antiviral drugs could get the Covid pandemic to a manageable point by summer 2022. Here's how.

Bill Gates' TerraPower aims to build its first advanced nuclear reactor in a coal town in Wyoming

The video showed a confrontation where two white students sitting at the center with a 'Police Lives Matter' laptop sticker and an anti-Joe Biden t-shirt were accused of being racist. Now, the students who filmed the incident say they are being disciplined by university officials. FOX 10's Matt Galka reports.

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.

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 that will soon close, officials announced Tuesday. Bellevue, Washington-based TerraPower will build its Natrium plant in Kemmerer, a southwestern Wyoming city of 2,600 where the coal-fired Naughton power plant operated by PacifiCorp subsidiary Rocky Mountain Power is set to close in 2025.

via Facebook When the conspiracy theorist Cindy Ficklin applied to become a Colorado school superintendent six months ago, she had a photo of herself online holding a pistol.“It was either my Glock 42 or my Glock 43,” she told The Daily Beast this week.Ficklin had also posted a missive about a supposed global conspiracy among a super rich elite led by billionaire George Soros.“If you don’t know who George Soros is...you’re not alone - (he’s one of the monsters in the shadows),” she wrote. “Soros

At the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland, Bill Gates declared that today's oil giants could see their fortunes significantly shrink within the next 30 years. Here's why.

Activities such as lifting weights, hiking, or even woodworking teach us humility and keep us grounded in reality

Billionaires like Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos often cite carbon offsets as justification for jetting around the world on private planes. Here's what that means, and whether or not they work.

The U.K. is currently hosting the COP26 climate change conference, which will run from Oct. 31 to Nov. 12.

Guests were reportedly helicoptered from Bill Gates's megayacht, Lana, to the secluded, picturesque cove in Fethiye, Turkey, on Wednesday.

The next 1,000 unicorns (companies worth more than $1 billion) will be in climate tech, Blackrock CEO Larry Fink said in Saudi Arabia on Monday.

Buckingham Palace was forced to disclose Queen Elizabeth II had stayed overnight in hospital after The Sun newspaper broke the story

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Bill Gates expects climate investing to produce big returns for those who can stomach the risk while making the right early bets.

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 execs in 2008 told their co-founder to stop sending flirtatious emails to a female employee, the company said

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.

In 2008, Microsoft became aware Gates sent "inappropriate" messages to a female employee a year earlier, spokesman Frank Shaw told the Wall Street Journal.

25-year-old Jennifer Gates married Nayel Nassar on October 16th, and her parents both walked her down the aisle while she wore a Vera Wang dress.

It's been 10 years since Steve Jobs died. Here are six of the top lessons that his friends, colleagues and competitors say they've learned from his legacy.

Baseless conspiracy theories about Bill Gates, depopulation, and the COVID-19 vaccine are spreading online.

If you’re not willing to get the COVID-19 vaccine, are you willing to bury you spouse, kids, mother or father, grandparents or maybe that favorite uncle or aunt or cousin?

Doctors and scientists explain why the Covid vaccines can't contain tracking microchips that make the spot magnetic, despite viral TikToks claiming otherwise.

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.

For one thing, their pricing mechanisms reward and punish the wrong behaviors, frustrating the shift to renewables.

We can't fight climate change if U.S. climate policy changes every time a new political party takes over, said Gates.

Bill Gates has raised hundreds of millions from seven U.S. firms to develop clean technologies that could play a key role in the fight against 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.

An estimated 30% of all farmland is owned by landlords who don’t farm themselves, according to U.S. Department of Agriculture.

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

Gates's fund, run by his firm Breakthrough Energy, would spend the money over three years on initiatives to lower greenhouse gas emissions.

KoBold Metals, backed by billionaires Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates, will hunt for metals needed for electric vehicles with mining firm BlueJay.

Gates also addressed his divorce from Melinda Gates, which was finalized this week.

Gates also addressed his divorce from Melinda Gates, which was finalized this week.

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

The divorce of Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates has been finalized. The Microsoft co-founder and his wife announced in May they were ending their 27-year marriage and on Monday a King County Superior Court judge signed the dissolution decree. Bill Gates was formerly the world’s richest person and his fortune is estimated at about $150 billion.

Jessica Springsteen had no luck going solo in Tokyo.

Bill and Melinda French Gates were one of the most prominent couples in business. A push for divorce came after reports on Bill Gates' ties to Jeffrey Epstein.

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

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 allegations suggesting Bill Gates inappropriately 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.

Board members at Microsoft Corp. made a decision in 2020 that it wasn’t appropriate for its co-founder Bill Gates to continue sitting on its board as they conducted a probe into the billionaire’s prior romantic relationship with a female Microsoft employee that was deemed inappropriate, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal.

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.

Bill and Melinda Gates say they're divorcing.

A new mass fundraising campaign aims to inspire 50 million people around the world to make small donations to Covax, the international effort to push for equitable global distribution of COVID-19 vaccinations.

President Joe Biden has wrapped up his two-day climate summit, saying the climate crisis has created an opportunity to remake the global economy and produce millions of jobs in clean energy and technology.

In closing President Joe Biden's global climate summit, world leaders shared stories of their own nations' drives to break away from climate-wrecking fossil fuels.

President Joe Biden takes center stage in a two-day climate summit highlighting America's return to the fight to curb global warming.

President Joe Biden takes center stage in a two-day climate summit highlighting America's return to the fight to curb global warming.

Mick Jagger and Dave Grohl have teamed up for a hard-rock pandemic anthem called “Eazy Sleazy.”.

Billionaire philanthropists John and Laura Arnold have committed to donate 5% of their wealth annually as part of an effort to encourage increased, timelier donations to charities.

WASHINGTON – At least one group in America is unlikely to get any money from President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion economic rescue plan — his own top aides. Most of Biden’s senior West Wing advisers made far more than the threshold that would qualify them for direct payments from the president’s COVID-19 relief bill, according to White House financial disclosure forms released Saturday. Others in the West Wing — whose positions don't require Senate confirmation — have had deep ties to the business world. He was listed as having a salary of $1.8 million, according to his disclosure form. Brian Deese, head of the national economic council, was previously global head of sustainable investing at BlackRock, according to his disclosure.

In Rhode Island, 30% of prison staff have refused the vaccine, a higher rate than the incarcerated, according to the state’s Department of Corrections. Prison staff helped accelerate outbreaks by refusing to wear masks, downplaying people’s symptoms, and haphazardly enforcing social distancing and hygiene protocols in confined, poorly ventilated spaces ripe for viral spread. AdStill, some correctional officers are refusing the vaccine because they fear both short- and long-term side effects of the immunizations. The resistance to the vaccine is not unique to correctional officers. It was updated on March 16, 2021, to add the percentage of Rhode Island prison staff who have declined to be vaccinated.

Legitimate questions about the virus created perfect conditions for conspiracy theories. COVID CLAIM: Boyle says the coronavirus is a genetically engineered bioweapon that escaped from a high-level lab in Wuhan, China. COVID CLAIM: Nikulin argues the U.S. created the virus and used it to attack China. He first voiced the belief in a Jan. 20, 2020, story by Zvezda, a state media outlet tied to the Russian military. EVIDENCE: There is no evidence that the U.S. created the virus or used it as a weapon to attack Iran.

FILE - In this May 28, 2019 file photo Arizona Republican Sen. Paul Boyer, at the podium, is seen with Arizona Gov. For months, four elected Republicans and one Democrat on the board overseeing Arizona's most populous county have been facing threats and harassment for backing election results that saw Democrat Joe Biden win the state. All were from Trump supporters who questioned election results that saw a Democrat win Arizona for the first time since 1996. GOP senators demanded access to all the county’s election materials in mid-December, after Trump backers failed in court to overturn election results in Arizona and other battleground states. “But county board of supervisors?” he said.