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FILE - In this April 21, 2017, file photo, Philanthropist and co-founder of Microsoft, Bill Gates, right, and his wife Melinda react, prior to being awarded the Legion of Honour at the Elysee Palace in Paris. Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates will continue to work together as co-chairs of their foundation even after their planned divorce. However, if after two years they cannot continue in their roles, French Gates will resign her positions as co-chair and trustee, The Bill and Gates Melinda Foundation announced Wednesday, July 7, 2021. (AP Photo/Kamil Zihnioglu, Pool)

Bill, Melinda Gates to run foundation jointly after divorce

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In this image from video, Bill Gates speaks during the White House Climate Leaders Summit, Friday, April 23, 2021. (AP Photo) ** FILE **

Bill Gates crumbles on his own smug immorality

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

In this image from video, Bill Gates speaks during the White House Climate Leaders Summit, Friday, April 23, 2021. (AP Photo) ** FILE **

Microsoft investigated Bill Gates before he left board: Report

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FILE - In this Feb. 1, 2019, file photo, Bill and Melinda Gates smile at each other during an interview in Kirkland, Wash. The couple announced Monday, May 3, 2021, that they are divorcing. The Microsoft co-founder and his wife, with whom he launched the world's largest charitable foundation, said they would continue to work together at The Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File)

Bill and Melinda Gates divorce could shake up philanthropy

By HALELUYA HADERO and GLENN GAMBOA - Associated Press

In this Feb. 1, 2019, photo, Bill Gates looks to his wife Melinda as they are interviewed in Kirkland, Wash. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson) ** FILE **

Bill and Melinda Gates announce they are ending marriage

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Getting Bill Gates focused on climate change

By Gary Anderson

In this Feb. 1, 2019, file photo, Bill Gates smiles while being interviewed in Kirkland, Wash. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File)

Bill Gates is not America’s coronavirus god

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

This cover image released by Knopf shows &quot;How to Avoid Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need&quot; by Bill Gates. (Knopf via AP)

Review: Bill Gates offers a hopeful take on climate change

By JEFF ROWE - Associated Press

FILE - In this May 28, 2019 file photo Arizona Republican Sen. Paul Boyer, at the podium, is seen with Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey during a news conference in Phoenix. 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. That fury from some backers of President Donald Trump moved on this week to Boyer a Republican state senator, who had to change his phone number, move his wife and young son and get police protection after he voted against a measure to subject the supervisors to arrest for refusing to hand election materials over to the Senate. (AP Photo/Jonathan J. Cooper, File)

Months after Biden win, Arizona officials still face threats

By BOB CHRISTIE - Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 7, 2021, file photo, the Legislative Building is shown partially shrouded in fog at the Capitol in Olympia, Wash. Washington state's richest residents, including Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos, would pay a wealth tax on certain financial assets worth more than $1 billion under a proposed bill whose sponsor says she is seeking a fair and equitable tax code. Under the bill, starting Jan. 1, 2022, for taxes due in 2023, a 1% tax would be levied not on income, but on &quot;extraordinary&quot; assets ranging from cash, publicly traded options, futures contracts, and stocks and bonds. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)

Washington state eyes ‘billionaire tax’ on the ultra rich

By RACHEL LA CORTE - Associated Press

In this Feb. 1, 2019, file photo, Bill Gates smiles while being interviewed in Kirkland, Wash. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson) ** FILE ** Photo edited for Best of 2020 list.

Bill Gates will use ‘pandemic war’ to control the world

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Billionaire Bill Gates talks about the coronavirus pandemic with NBC's Savannah Guthrie, Dec. 3, 2020. (Image: NBC, "Today" video screenshot) ** FILE **

Bill Gates laments federal role during pandemic under Trump, hopes ‘the next time’ is different

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

In this undated file photo issued by the University of Oxford on Monday, Nov. 23, 2020, a researcher in a laboratory at the Jenner Institute in Oxford, England, works on the coronavirus vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University. With major COVID-19 vaccines showing high levels of protection, British officials are cautiously — and they stress cautiously — optimistic that life may start returning to normal by early April. (University of Oxford/John Cairns via AP, File)

COVID-19 vaccines’ scary side effects must not be dismissed

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

In this Sept. 12, 2003, file photo, William H. Gates Sr., left, smiles while sitting next to his son, Bill Gates Jr., during the dedication and grand opening of the William H. Gates Hall, the new home of the University of Washington School of Law in Seattle. Bill Gates Sr., a lawyer and philanthropist and father of Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, died Monday, Sept. 14, 2020, at age 94. (AP Photo/John Froschauer, File)

Bill Gates, software dude, slams Dr. Scott Atlas as COVID ‘pseudo-expert’

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

In this Sept. 12, 2003, file photo, William H. Gates Sr., left, smiles while sitting next to his son, Bill Gates Jr., during the dedication and grand opening of the William H. Gates Hall, the new home of the University of Washington School of Law in Seattle. Bill Gates Sr., a lawyer and philanthropist and father of Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, died Monday, Sept. 14, 2020, at age 94. (AP Photo/John Froschauer, File)

Bill Gates, Anthony Fauci — blasted in coronavirus-weary Oklahoma

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Feb. 12, 2001 file photo Bill Gates, Sr., co-chair and CEO of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, listens to a grantee speaking at a ceremony in Seattle. Gates, a lawyer and philanthropist and father of Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, died Monday, Sept. 14, 2020, at age 94. (AP Photo/Cheryl Hatch,File)

Bill Gates Sr. dies at 94

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