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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, Melinda Gates unfazed by criticism of wealthy giving

By SALLY HO - Associated Press

Bill Gates, former Microsoft CEO and co-founder of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, gestures to a jar of human feces as he speaks at the Reinvented Toilet Expo in Beijing, Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2018. With a jar of human feces on a podium next to him, billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates has kicked off a &quot;Reinvented Toilet&quot; Expo in China. Gates said Tuesday that the technologies on display at the three-day expo in Beijing represent the most significant advances in sanitation in nearly 200 years. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

With poo on a pedestal, Bill Gates talks toilet technology

By MARK SCHIEFELBEIN - Associated Press

FILE--In this June 18, 1997, file p photo, Microsoft co-founder and billionaire Paul Allen joins in with the band and plays electric guitar at an election night victory party in the early morning hours in Seattle. Allen, billionaire owner of the Portland Trail Blazers and the Seattle Seahawks and Microsoft co-founder, died Monday, Oct. 15, 2018 at age 65. Earlier this month Allen said the cancer he was treated for in 2009, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, had returned (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, file)

Paul Allen’s passions: Rock n’ roll, sports and philanthropy

By PHUONG LE - Associated Press

FILE - In this July 17, 2001 file photo, Seattle Seahawks owner Paul Allen appears in a suite in the team's stadium in Seattle. Allen, billionaire owner of the Trail Blazers and the Seattle Seahawks and Microsoft co-founder, died Monday, Oct. 15, 2018 at age 65. Earlier this month Allen said the cancer he was treated for in 2009, non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, had returned. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File)

Microsoft co-founder, philanthropist Paul Allen dies at 65

By PHUONG LE - Associated Press

Bill Gates calls for more global education assessments data

By SALLY HO - Associated Press

FILE - In this April 21, 2018, file photo, Co-Chair of Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation Bill Gates speaks in Washington, D.C. Gates is taking a more targeted approach in his goal to help America's struggling school systems, this time by largely funding familiar groups to work directly with public school districts in some of the most impoverished regions of the U.S. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

Bill Gates directs education funding to poor US schools

By SALLY HO - Associated Press

FILE - In this June 29, 2010 file photo, Microsoft founder Bill Gates, left, shakes hands with Nelson Smith, who at the time was President and CEO of the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, during the National Charter Schools Conference in Chicago. All told, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has given about $25 million to the Washington State Charter Schools Association, and since 2006, philanthropists and their private foundations and charities have given almost half a billion dollars to similar groups, according to an Associated Press analysis of tax filings and Foundation Center data. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato, file)

AP Exclusive: Billionaires fuel US charter schools movement

By SALLY HO - Associated Press

In this April 16, 2018, file photo, Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation, talks to the media after a meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron at the Elysee Palace in Paris. (AP Photo/Michel Euler, File)

Barbs for Bezos but Bill Gates largely admired in Seattle

By SALLY HO - Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb. 1, 2018 file photo, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and his wife Melinda take part in an AP interview in Kirkland, Wash. Gates' non-profit Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has given about $44 million to outside groups over the past two years to help shape new state education plans required under the 2015 law, according to an Associated Press 2018 analysis of its grants. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, file)

AP analysis shows how Bill Gates influences education policy

By SALLY HO - Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb. 1, 2018, file photo, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and his wife Melinda take part in an AP interview in Kirkland, Wash. Bill Gates is starting a new fight against systemic poverty in America, as his private foundation announces millions of dollars toward unspecified initiatives ranging from data projects to funding for community activists. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)

Bill Gates pumps $158 million into push to combat US poverty

By SALLY HO - Associated Press

Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, attends the panel "Building Human Capital: A Project for the World," during the World Bank/IMF Spring Meetings, in Washington, Saturday, April 21, 2018. ( AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana) ** FILE **

Bill Gates reportedly offered White House job, turned it down

By Sally Persons - The Washington Times

Roger Federer, of Switzerland, left, smiles as he and partner Bill Gates play in an exhibition tennis match against Jack Sock and Savannah Guthrie in San Jose, Calif., Monday, March 5, 2018. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu) ** FILE **

Bill Gates: ‘I don’t agree with the America first rhetoric’

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

In this May 5, 2014, file photo, Microsoft co-founder and Berkshire Hathaway board member Bill Gates speaks during an interview with Liz Claman on the Fox Business Network in Omaha, Neb. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik, File)

Bill Gates: Cryptocurrency has ‘caused deaths in a fairly direct way’

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

In this Feb. 1, 2018 photo, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, with his wife Melinda, poses for a photo before an interview with The Associated Press in Kirkland, Wash. The Gateses, as the world's top philanthropists, are rethinking their work in America as they confront what they consider their unsatisfactory track record on schools, the country's growing inequity and a president they disagree with more than any other. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

Bill Gates: People like me should pay ‘significantly higher taxes’

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

In this Feb. 1, 2018 photo, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and his wife Melinda pose for a photo before an interview with The Associated Press in Kirkland, Wash. Gates and his wife, head the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, are rethinking their work in America as they confront what they consider an unsatisfactory track record, the country's growing inequity and a president they disagree with more than any other. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

Melinda Gates embraces public role, calls out Trump

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

In this Feb. 1, 2018 photo, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and his wife Melinda take part in an interview with The Associated Press in Kirkland, Wash. Gates and his wife, head the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, are rethinking their work in America as they confront what they consider an unsatisfactory track record, the country's growing inequity and a president they disagree with more than any other. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

Gates focuses on schools while examining US poverty issues

By SALLY HO - Associated Press

Bill Gates gives $50 million to combat Alzheimer’s

Associated Press

Microsoft founder Bill Gates watches play between Pablo Carreno Busta, of Spain, and Kevin Anderson, of South Africa, during the semifinals of the U.S. Open tennis tournament in New York on Sept. 8, 2017. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Bill Gates personally donates $100 million to Alzheimer’s research

By Laura Kelly - The Washington Times

Bill Gates, Microsoft Co-Founder and Co-Chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, speaks during the Global partners meeting on neglected tropical diseases, NTD, at the World Health Organization headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, on Wednesday, April 19, 2017. (Martial Trezzini/Keystone via AP)

Microsoft’s Gates appeals to Britain to maintain foreign aid

By DANICA KIRKA - Associated Press

Bill Gates, Microsoft co-founder, calls for ‘robot tax’ to slow automation

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times