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Melinda French Gates says she and her ex-husband, Bill Gates, always intended for the foundation they started together to spend down all of its resources rather than to exist in perpetuity

Gates' contribution will empower the foundation to inject an additional $200 billion into its global health and US education initiatives

Gift makes him among history's most generous philanthropists

The road to the U.S.-Ukraine minerals agreement was paved with challenges

Six people in a rural Texas county have been indicted in a widening elections investigation led by Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton

A video showing a Minnesota woman at a playground admitting to using a racist slur against a Black child has garnered millions of views

Brazil’s Amazon state of Rondonia has passed a law in favor of cattle ranchers who converted a large area of rainforest inside the Jaci-Parana conservation zone and turned it into pasture

More than a dozen states are suing the Trump administration for withholding funds from for the buildout of electric vehicle chargers across the U.S. The federal lawsuit says $5 billion allocated to states under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law signed by President Joe Biden in 2021 cannot be withdrawn by the…

Consumer and environmental groups are criticizing the Environmental Protection Agency's plan to eliminate its Energy Star offices

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said she’d be seeking the death penalty against the alleged smugglers

A federal judge on Tuesday ordered the Education Department to undo a freeze on the last of the U.S. relief money given to schools to help their students recover academically from the COVID-19 pandemic