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Only 5 billionaires including the founders of Zynga, FTX and 23andme have signed up to The Giving Pledge this year
There has been a sharp decline in the number of super-rich joining the philanthropic initiative set…
Jyoti Mann
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'Sister Wives' star Kody Brown declares his family is in a 'civil war' and pledges loyalty to wife Robyn: 'You're not gonna separate us'
On Sunday's episode of "Sister Wives," Kody Brown shares virtual space with some of his children fo…
Esme Mazzeo
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Investor Ron Conway and Zillow CEO Rich Barton are among 13 new billionaires who have agreed to give away most of their fortunes by signing the Giving Pledge
Amazon CEO, world's richest person, and $200 billion man Jeff Bezos is still notably missing from t…
Katie Canales
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PGA official pledges golfers will be able to criticize Saudi Arabia if the tour merges with the Saudi-backed LIV Golf
Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal accused the PGA of selling out to the Saudis. A tour official sa…
Brent D. Griffiths
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Billionaire philanthropist Robert Smith, who paid off the student debts of an entire college class last year, is facing a criminal tax probe. Here's a look at his charity work.
"My story would only be possible in America, and it is incumbent on all of us to pay this inheritan…
Theron Mohamed
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Hundreds of billionaires pledged to give their fortunes away through Warren Buffett and Bill Gates' Giving Pledge, but very little money may be actually helping people, according to a new study
Over 75% of the original 65 billionaires who promised to give away the majority of their fortunes i…
Taylor Nicole Rogers
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Bill Gates says his pledge to give away his wealth will erase him from list of the world's wealthiest people
Billionaire Bill Gates announced Wednesday a $20 billion to his charity foundation. He plans to giv…
Katie Canales
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez poked fun at Bill Gates' plan to boost billionaires' coronavirus donations, suggesting they pay their taxes
"If only there were some public fund billionaires could pay into along with everyone else," the pro…
Theron Mohamed
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Joe Biden used his first Oval Office address to tout the debt ceiling deal and pledge continued bipartisanship
The agreement eliminates the potential for an unprecedented default Biden said would have been cata…
Associated Press,Chris Kaye
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Foreign investors are giving up on China as capital flows reverse
Global investors have resumed dumping Chinese stocks and bonds after Beijing's pledges to boost the…
Jason Ma
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The Giving Pledge was supposed to boost philanthropy. But it may be doing more to benefit rich donors.
Bill Gates and Warren Buffett got 211 billionaires to pledge half their wealth to charity. But some…
Matt Turner,Jordan Parker Erb
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In a new push for vaccine diplomacy, China's Xi Jinping has pledged to give Africa a billion vaccines
Xi made the undertaking to give Africa vaccines in Beijing on November 29, adding that China will a…
Cheryl Teh
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Kevin McCarthy reaffirms pledge to give Marjorie Taylor Greene and Paul Gosar committee assignments again after they attended a white nationalist conference
Both Greene and Gosar recently addressed a white nationalist conference in Florida, prompting conde…
Bryan Metzger
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Biden promised 'no more drilling on federal lands, period.' He just broke that pledge to approve a massive oil project in Alaska.
The Biden administration on Monday officially approved one of the largest-ever drilling projects on…
Eliza Relman
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MacKenzie Scott says she has given $2 billion to 343 organizations supporting underserved communities in the last 7 months, raising her total to at least $14.5 billion since she pledged to give away most of her fortune
MacKenzie Scott, Jeff Bezos' ex-wife, has made at least 1,257 donations since she signed the Giving…
Isabella Zavarise
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Quentin Tarantino's mom says she's 'proud' of her son despite his pledge to never give her 'a penny'
Tarantino said he made a childhood vow never to give his mother a penny of his fortune after she mo…
Ayomikun Adekaiyero
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Jeff Bezos wanted to do a big reveal when Amazon announced its Climate Pledge, and Amazon considered having him unveil it from a polar ice cap
Amazon employees spent a few days trying to figure out how to send Bezos to the Arctic, according t…
Avery Hartmans
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Silicon Valley CEO gets 8-year prison sentence in case over blood-testing company that gives off Elizabeth Holmes-Theranos vibes
Prosecutors said Arrayit CEO Mark Schena claimed he was on the shortlist for the Nobel Prize and fa…
Associated Press,Lakshmi Vara…
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FTX pledged $600,000 to an anti-racist non-profit, but the money never arrived and Sam Bankman-Fried's father wrote to apologize
Sam Bankman-Fried's father told the charity he'd like to fund it himself, but couldn't as he was sp…
Pete Syme
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Oprah and 'The Rock' angered some fans by asking them to give to Maui. Their own donation was less than 0.5% of their total wealth.
Dwayne Johnson and Oprah Winfrey are asking the public to give to Maui. Their contribution is some …