- Yahoo Finance Video
Melinda French Gates on her working partnership with Bill
Melinda French Gates and ex-husband Bill Gates, co-founder and former CEO of Microsoft (MSFT), founded the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in 2000. Since its inception, the health and social-focused philanthropy has issued $77.6 billion in grants.After 27 years of marriage, the two divorced in 2021, leaving the world wondering about the future of their roles at the foundation. In May, French Gates announced her resignation from the foundation to continue her work at her own company, Pivotal Ventures, with a focus on securing gender equality through investing in women-led businesses. In mid-March, before her resignation announcement, French Gates told Yahoo Finance how she grappled with the challenges of marriage and running the foundation when working through her divorce from Gates behind the scenes.
- The Independent
Sean Kingston’s mother arrested as authorities raid his Florida mansion
The raid at the property is reportedly connected to a lawsuit accusing the rapper of collecting luxury goods he never paid for
- The Independent
All the Republicans who have signaled they won’t accept 2024 election results
A number of Republicans have indicated that they may not accept the outcome of the 2024 presidential election. The race is all but certain to be a rematch of the 2020 contest between Joe Biden and Donald Trump, which ended with a clear victory for the Democrat but that the incumbent refused to accept. Mr Trump’s denial sparked months of legal challenges, menacing phone calls, and rampant, baseless conspiracy theories about rigged voting machines and lost ballots in support of a spurious narrative that the election was “stolen”.
