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A person walks by the headquarters of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation on April 27, 2018, in Seattle. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation threw its weight behind a call to save the lives of women in child birth and their children on Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2023, at its annual Goalkeepers conference on the side lines of the U.N. General Assembly in New York. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)

Gates Foundation commits $200 million to pay for medical supplies and contraception

By Thalia Beaty - Associated Press

Bitcoin and FTX scandal Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Blatant FTX cover-up attempt and Bankman-Fried’s deep ties to the Democratic Party

By Terry Kim

Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation, speaks at a news conference during the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Wednesday, May 25, 2022. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, File)

Bill Gates: Technological innovation, farming technology would help solve global hunger

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Bill Gates, Co-Chair, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, speaks at a news conference during the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, May 25, 2022. Gates, concerned about the “significant suffering” caused by global setbacks including the COVID-19 pandemic, announced Wednesday, July 13, 2022 that he will donate $20 billion to his foundation so it can increase its annual spending. The donation, combined with longtime board member Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett’s $3.1 billion gift last month, brings The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s endowment to approximately $70 billion, making it one of the largest in the world. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, file)

Bill Gates to give $20 billion to stem ‘significant suffering’

By Glenn Gamboa - Associated Press

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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This undated photo provided by Comic Relief’s Red Nose Day shows the special Red Nose Day masks that Walgreens employees will wear for the 2021 fundraising campaign. (Red Nose Day via AP)

Red Nose Day shifts to year-round fundraising amid pandemic

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How Chronicle of Philanthropy compiled list of top 50 donors

By MARIA DI MENTO of The Chronicle of Philanthropy - Associated Press

Dallas Morning News names Melinda Gates ‘Texan of the Year’

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A resident wearing a face mask as a precaution against the coronavirus walks a dog through snow in Goyang, South Korea, Sunday, Dec. 13, 2020. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

The Latest: COVID-19 vaccine begins arriving in Canada

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FILE - In this Monday, May 25, 2020 file photo, a vile of a COVID-19 vaccine candidate on a shelf during testing at the Chula Vaccine Research Center, run by Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand. Refrigeration, cargo planes, and, above all, money: All risk being in short supply for the international initiative to get coronavirus vaccines to the world’s most vulnerable people. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit, File)

Push to bring coronavirus vaccines to the poor faces trouble

By MARIA CHENG and LORI HINNANT - Associated Press

FILE - In this Wednesday, June 24, 2020 file photo, a volunteer receives a COVID-19 test vaccine injection developed at the University of Oxford in Britain, at the Chris Hani Baragwanath hospital in Soweto, Johannesburg, South Africa. Politicians and public health leaders have publicly committed to equitably sharing any coronavirus vaccine that works, but the top global initiative to make it happen may allow rich countries to reinforce their own stockpiles while making fewer doses available for poor ones. (AP Photo/Siphiwe Sibeko, FIle)

Global vaccine plan may allow rich countries to buy more

By MARIA CHENG - Associated Press

FILE - In this April 17, 2020, file photo, a patient is loaded into an ambulance by emergency medical workers outside Cobble Hill Health Center in the Brooklyn borough of New York. New York state is now reporting more than 1,700 previously undisclosed deaths at nursing homes and adult care facilities as the state faces scrutiny over how it’s protected vulnerable residents during the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

Consider human costs in economic reopenings, Cuomo urges

By MARINA VILLENEUVE and MICHAEL HILL - Associated Press

Iowa men will fly around world to bring vaccines to children

By DIANA NOLLEN - Associated Press

Gates Foundation CEO steps down after five years

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Ex-executive at bankrupt private equity firm pleads guilty

By LARRY NEUMEISTER - Associated Press

New Orleans receives $150k to create youth employment plans

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Gates Foundation gives Emory University $180M grant

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Bloomberg donating $100M to help fight polio

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Donors promise $4 billion to global vaccines body

By MARIA CHENG - Associated Press