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The Latest Breaking News from Bill Gates

Is America finally sick of billionaires?

Between Elon Musk, Sam Bankman-Fried, Donald Trump and Elizabeth Holmes, who still believes that money = brains?

Salon

Bill Gates' daughter Jennifer pregnant with first baby as she cradles bump

Jennifer Gates, who is the daughter of billionaire Bill Gates and his ex-wife Melinda, announced the news on Instagram as she cradled her blossoming bump

Daily Mirror

Jeff Bezos awards 40 grants worth $123 million to fight homelessness

Bezos recently said he'd give away most of his wealth, but the Amazon founder is more hesitant than other billionaries when it comes to philanthropy.

Fortune

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Arizona GOP official forced into hiding

Maricopa County Supervisor Bill Gates, a Republican, had to be moved to an "undisclosed location"

Salon

Arizona election official forced to go into hiding after receiving death threats following Kari Lake’s defeat

Maricopa County has become a focus of right-wing election conspiracy theories in recent years

The Independent UK

Foundations call for cooperation, some new pledges at COP27

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

The Independent UK

NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn't happen this week

Social media users shared a range of false claims this week

The Independent UK

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Gates Foundation pledges $7B for health, 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

The Independent UK

Lake refuses to concede in Arizona governor's race she lost

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

The Independent UK

Gates Foundation pledges $7 billion for Africa as Ukraine war diverts donor cash

The Bill Melinda Gates Foundation said on Thursday it was committing $7 billion to Africa over the next four years, as Bill Gates warned that the Ukraine crisis was reducing the amount of aid flowing to the continent.

Reuters

Jeff Bezos steps up 'flashy' giving while ex-wife quietly donates billions

Jeff Bezos' $100 million award to Dolly Parton is something of a puzzle to Phil Buchanan, president of the Center for Effective Philanthropy.

Tribune News Service

The Case for Space Billionaires

What critics of the private space race get wrong

Reason

Jeff Bezos is taking a page out of the Bill Gates playbook with vow to give away most of his billions

The Amazon founder said he’ll give away the fortune that made him the world’s richest man for years. He was pretty vague about how.

Fortune

Arizona county quick to bat down election misinformation

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

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Los Angeles Times

In Arizona, election fraud conspiracy theories rage on as the vote count continues

PHOENIX — Republican Kari Lake could still catch up to Democrat Katie Hobbs in Arizona’s contentious race for governor.

The Guardian - UK

What’s more cringey than a Matt Hancock bushtucker trial? The Tory MPs voting for it

These MPs have found their imaginary backbones only when he is washed up, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

WEKU

Arizona Senate race still undecided as election officials release more ballots

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

Asharq Al-Awsat

Paul Allen's Art Collection Tops $1 bn at Christie's

Paintings and sculptures from the collection of late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen were auctioned off for a historic $1 billion Wednesday, Christie's auction house said, with records set for works by Van Gogh, Cezanne, Gauguin, Seurat and Klimt. At the end of the night Wednesday, five paintings entered the exclusive…

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Paul Allen's art collection tops $1bn at Christie's

NEW YORK: Paintings and sculptures from the collection of late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen were auctioned off for a historic US$1 billion on Wednesday, Christie's auction house said, with records set for works by Van Gogh, Cezanne, Gauguin, Seurat and Klimt.

The Independent UK

Officials counting all ballots after voting snag in Arizona

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

Roll Call

Glitch, website attack in two states fuel election misinformation - Roll Call

Election officials in Arizona and Mississippi said glitches in their systems didn't prevent people from voting despite allegations otherwise.

The Independent UK

Tucker Carlson falsely claims Arizona voting machines didn’t allow people to vote. Here’s what actually happened

Election officials reported problems with voting tabulation machines – not voting machines – which did not prevent anyone casting votes

Salon

Trump stokes Arizona election conspiracy

Right-wing media amplified false claims of voter fraud after Maricopa County tabulation machines malfunction

WEKU

Arizona's Maricopa County says it's identified a solution for voting equipment issues

The issues with the tabulators were quickly used by right-leaning influencers to fuel claims of fraud.

The Independent UK

Voting machine malfunctions reported in 23 polling centres in Maricopa County, Arizona

Voters can still cast ballots at centres with defective counters, though they will be counted later in the evening

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