Supporting all that spending is a trust fund, including a public equity portfolio worth about $33 billion. Last quarter, the investment managers in charge sold the last of Gates' most recent Microsoft ...

The Gates Foundation marked its 25th anniversary in May 2025 with a panel, from left: Emma Tucker, Wall Street Journal’s editor-in-chief; Mark Suzman, CEO of the Gates Foundation; and Bill Gates.

Jeffrey Epstein wanted most of his money to go to his girlfriend. Mr. Epstein’s brother and a Harvard math professor were also named beneficiaries. By Matthew Goldstein See more of our coverage in ...

The Gates Foundation trust holds a portfolio of publicly traded stocks worth about $38 billion based on its most recent filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). While Microsoft is ...

“It’s not so easy to give away money if you want to do it smart, if you want to be intelligent about it,” the 94-year-old once said Kimberlee Speakman is a Writer-Reporter on the News team at PEOPLE, ...

In 2020, people viewed COVID-related content on Wikipedia—the free, online encyclopedia—579 million times in more than 180 languages. In fact, medical content on the site received more pageviews than ...

Bloomberg Opinion columnists looked at data for nine American institutions, like government, science, and big business, to get to the heart of the country’s crisis of trust. When trust collapses, what ...

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The Heritage Foundation is a conservative think tank and a sponsor of the Republican National Convention. It was founded in 1973 during Richard Nixon’s administration and since then has exerted a ...

A July 5 Facebook post (direct link, archive link) includes nine slides describing supposed policy propositions from former President Donald Trump. The slides include an image of Trump along with the ...

Warren Buffett will make philanthropy his final act. The billionaire Berkshire Hathaway CEO plans to put the majority of his wealth into a new charitable trust managed by his three children, he told ...

Americans’ trust in the federal government, which has hovered at or near record lows for nearly 20 years, has modestly increased over the last year. Still, only about two-in-ten Americans say they ...