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Taylor Swift performs at Wembley Stadium as part of her Eras Tour on Friday, June 21, 2024 in London. (Photo by Scott A Garfitt/Invision/AP, File)

Did Taylor Swift create a new era for food bank donations?

By STEPHANIE BEASLEY of The Chronicle of Philanthropy - Associated Press

Supporters of Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. gather during a campaign event, Tuesday, March 26, 2024, in Oakland, Calif. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)

Who is Nicole Shanahan, the philanthropist picked by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as his running mate?

By Meg Kinnard - Associated Press

Signage for the FTX Arena, where the Miami Heat basketball team plays, is illuminated on Saturday, Nov. 12, 2022, in Miami. The rapid collapse of cryptocurrency exchange FTX into bankruptcy last week has also shaken the world of philanthropy, due to the donations and influence of FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried in the “effective altruism” movement. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier, File)

Sam Bankman-Fried’s downfall sends shockwaves through crypto

By Ken Sweet - Associated Press

Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., speaks during a House Intelligence Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, April 15, 2021. (Al Drago/Pool via AP) ** FILE **

Dossier slayer Devin Nunes fights for Truth Social

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

Extreme Censorship in America Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

The worst year for censorship in America’s history

By Jason Miller

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador gives his first year's state of the nation address at the National Palace in Mexico City, Sunday, Sept. 1, 2019. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador rips big tech flexing like ‘all-powerful’ gatekeepers of speech

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

Kalmane Kamegowda, a 72-year-old shepherd, is reflected in a pond he created at a hillock near Dasanadoddi village, 120 kilometers (75 miles) west of Bengaluru, India, Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2020. Kamegowda, who never attended school, says he's spent at least $14,000 from his and his son’s earnings, mainly through selling sheep he tended over the years, to dig a chain of 16 ponds on a picturesque hill near his village. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi)

Indian shepherd combats water scarcity by building ponds

By AIJAZ RAHI - Associated Press

Matt Frinzi, 68, poses with his dog, Whitey, and his car filled with his belongings, in West Sacramento, California, on Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2020. Prinzi has lived in California for 25 years. But Tuesday he officially moved to Reno, Nevada. He said his quality of life has deteriorated so much in California that he wanted to leave. California saw its slowest growth rate on record for the nation's most populous state, adding just 21,200 people during the year that ended in July, state officials said Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2020. (AP Photo/Adam Beam)

California’s growth rate at record low as more people leave

By ADAM BEAM - Associated Press

In a photo provided by Alex Lee for State Assembly 2020, Alex Lee poses for a photo at the Warm Springs Bay Area Rapid Transit station in Fremont, Calif., May 22, 2019. Voters have elected Lee, the youngest state lawmaker in more than eight decades. Lee survived a crowded nine-candidate primary election in March, then trounced his Republican rival by winning 73% of the vote in a San Francisco Bay Area district that includes part of Silicon Valley. (Vanessa Hsieh/Alex Lee for State Assembly 2020 via AP)

California elects 25-year-old lawmaker, youngest in 82 years

By DON THOMPSON - Associated Press

CEO of influential Silicon Valley group quits over racist ad

Associated Press

Matt Drudge carries a laptop computer as he walks up the stairs at his Hollywood-area apartment in Los Angeles on June 18, 1997. The Drudge Report, the daily barrage of breaking news, gossip and politics he e-mails to some 65,000 subscribers, is hotter than hot. (AP Photo/Michael Caulfield) ** FILE **

‘Free Matt Drudge’: Silicon Valley conservatives to launch latest Drudge rival

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

Fire destroys building under construction in Silicon Valley

Associated Press

New housing options emerging for seniors in Fort Collins

By PAT FERRIER - Associated Press

This photo shows signage outside the offices of Google in San Francisco with the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge in the background, Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2018. Hundreds of Google employees are expected to temporality leave their jobs Thursday morning in a mass walkout protesting the internet company's lenient treatment of executives accused of sexual misconduct. The San Francisco office is one of the offices that the walkout will take place. (AP Photo/Michael Liedtke)

Google employees leave work to protest treatment of women

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE - Associated Press

U.S. Sen. Orrin Hatch discusses Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh during a speech hosted by the Sutherland Institute, Thursday, Aug. 9, 2018, in Salt Lake City. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

Orrin Hatch asks FTC to investigate Google again as Trump touts possible antitrust probe

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

FILE - This March 1, 2017, file photo shows an exterior view of the headquarters of Uber in San Francisco. Toyota will sink a half-billion dollars into Uber and work jointly with the ride-hailing giant to develop self-driving vehicles, a person briefed on the matter said Monday, Aug. 27, 2018. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)

Uber heads in new direction with Toyota on self-driving cars

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE and TOM KRISHER - Associated Press

Minor earthquakes rattle Silicon Valley, California farmland

Associated Press

In this photo taken Oct. 5, 2017, Delmi Ruiz, bottom, sits inside and RV where here family lives and sleeps under her daughter Delmi, 4, top, in Mountain View, Calif. The Ruiz Hernandez family was left homeless after the landlord in the apartment they rented hiked their rent beyond what they could afford. The booming economy along the West Coast has led to an historic shortage of affordable housing and has upended the stereotypical view of people out on the streets. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

‘We still need to eat’: Tech boom creates working homeless

By JANIE HAR - Associated Press

FILE - In this Monday, April 10, 2017 file photo, Luminar CEO Austin Russell monitors a 3D lidar map on a demonstration drive in San Francisco. Russell, now 22, was barely old enough to drive when he set out to create a safer navigation system for robot-controlled cars. His ambitions are about to be tested five years after he co-founded Luminar Technologies, a Silicon Valley startup trying to steer the rapidly expanding self-driving car industry in a new direction. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)

Silicon Valley billionaires’ donations protects them from liberal muckrakers

By Victor Davis Hanson

European Union Commissioner for Competition Margrethe Vestager said Google "denied other companies the chance to compete on the merits and to innovate. Most importantly, it denied European consumers a genuine choice of services and the full benefits of innovation." (Associated Press)

EU fights Silicon Valley innovations

By Patrick Costello - Special to The Washington Times