OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Investor Warren Buffett renewed his Thanksgiving tradition of giving by announcing plans Monday to hand more than $1.1 billion of Berkshire Hathaway stock to four of his family's foundations, and he offered new details about who will be handing out the rest of his fortune after his death.

2. Harris team warns CEOs that Trump is a threat to economy, while Trump says tariffs can drive growth - Friday, November 1, 2024

WASHINGTON (AP) — Kamala Harris ' campaign is actively warning business leaders that Donald Trump has a pattern of disregard for democracy and the rule of law that would threaten U.S. economic growth — a closing argument designed to show the possible consequences for companies and workers if he returns to the White House.

3. Melinda French Gates will give $250M to women's health groups globally through a new open call - Friday, October 4, 2024

Melinda French Gates will grant $250 million to support women's health around the world through an open call for nonprofits to apply for funding.

4. Southwest plans to cut flights in Atlanta while adding them elsewhere. Its unions are unhappy - Friday, September 20, 2024

DALLAS (AP) — Southwest Airlines plans to eliminate about one-third of its flights to Atlanta next year to save money as it comes under pressure from a hedge fund to increase profits and boost the airline's stock price.

5. Jill Biden reveals $500 million plan that focuses on women's health at Clinton Global Initiative - Friday, September 20, 2024

NEW YORK (AP) — First lady Jill Biden on Monday unveiled a new set of actions to address health inequities faced by women in the United States, plans that include spending at least $500 million annually on women's health research.

6. Bill Gates calls for more aid to go to Africa and for debt relief for burdened countries - Friday, September 13, 2024

NEW YORK (AP) — The billionaire Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates thinks the richest governments should increase their support for African countries that have been overshadowed by development funding increasingly going toward the humanitarian response to the war in Ukraine as well as support for refugees around the world in recent years.

7. Next generation of Buffetts is poised to become one of the biggest forces in philanthropy - Friday, September 13, 2024

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The next generation of Buffetts — Howard, Susie and Peter — is poised to become one of the most powerful forces in philanthropy when their 94-year-old father, the legendary businessman and leader of Berkshire Hathaway, Warren Buffett, eventually passes away.

8. Debate opened voters' eyes in suburban Philadelphia with Harris getting a closer look - Friday, September 13, 2024

BRISTOL, Pa. (AP) — The presidential debate this week was the final affront to Rosie Torres' lifelong Republicanism. She said her allegiance to Donald Trump, already strained by his stand on abortion, snapped in the former president's "eye opener" encounter with Kamala Harris.

9. Project 2025's new leader Kevin Roberts postpones his own book launch until after the election - Friday, August 2, 2024

WASHINGTON (AP) — As Project 2025 hits turmoil, the head of the influential, far-right Heritage Foundation is postponing the release of his potentially fiery new book until after the November presidential election.

10. Warren Buffett donates again to the Gates Foundation but will cut the charity off after his death - Friday, June 28, 2024

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Investor Warren Buffett announced another $5.3 billion in charitable gifts Friday, but in a major shift of his longtime giving plan he said he plans to cut off donations to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation after his death and let his three children decide how to distribute the rest of his $128 billion fortune.

11. Control what you can when market’s against you - Friday, June 28, 2024

Do you remember the dot-com crash in 2000? How about the mortgage crisis in 2008? It felt like things might never turn around when those devastating events occurred.

Finding a job felt impossible. And those who had one might have felt stuck since there weren’t many options. I remember friends who could neither find a job nor sell their home. The stress was high all the way around.

12. In Wyoming, Bill Gates moves ahead with nuclear project aimed at revolutionizing power generation - Friday, June 7, 2024

Bill Gates and his energy company are starting construction at their Wyoming site for a next-generation nuclear power plant he believes will "revolutionize" how power is generated.

13. British tech magnate Mike Lynch acquitted of fraud charges in $11 billion deal with Hewlett Packard - Friday, June 7, 2024

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Mike Lynch, once hailed as Britain's king of technology, has been cleared of charges alleging he orchestrated a fraud and conspiracy leading up to an $11 billion deal that turned into a costly albatross for Silicon Valley pioneer Hewlett Packard.

14. Less than 2% of philanthropic giving goes to women and girls. Can Melinda French Gates change that? - Friday, May 24, 2024

Melinda French Gates ' has a long history of supporting the women's movement, but it's her new eye-popping funding commitments that could finally change women's groups' long-running lament that less than 2% of philanthropic giving in the United States directly benefits women and girls.

15. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman pledges to donate most of his wealth - Friday, May 24, 2024

NEW YORK (AP) — The Giving Pledge announced Tuesday that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has joined its list of wealthy philanthropists committed to donating over half their fortunes.

The move comes after a tumultuous six months for Altman, the co-founder of the San Francisco-based company behind ChatGPT and a venture capitalist who Forbes says amassed much of his $1 billion through investments. His removal and subsequent reinstatement as CEO last November stunned the rapidly commercializing industry as internal conflicts threatened to sink one of the most sought-after voices on artificial intelligence.

16. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman joins Giving Pledge, focusing his money on tech that 'helps create abundance' - Friday, May 24, 2024

NEW YORK (AP) — The Giving Pledge announced Tuesday that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has joined its list of wealthy philanthropists committed to donating over half their fortunes.

The move comes after a tumultuous six months for Altman, the co-founder of the San Francisco-based company behind ChatGPT and a venture capitalist who Forbes says amassed much of his $1 billion through investments. His removal and subsequent reinstatement as CEO last November stunned the rapidly commercializing industry as internal conflicts threatened to sink one of the most sought-after voices on artificial intelligence.

17. Melinda French Gates to donate $1B over next 2 years in support of women's rights - Friday, May 24, 2024

Melinda French Gates says she will be donating $1 billion over the next two years to individuals and organizations working on behalf of women and families globally, including on reproductive rights in the United States.

18. Reading this book might change your life – or not - Friday, May 24, 2024

If only things were different. If you’d had other parents, if you’d grown up in another place, you likely wouldn’t be the same person you are. What if you’d zigged when you could’ve zagged, traveled here and not there, picked a different spouse or a different career?

19. Senators urge $32 billion in emergency spending on AI after finishing yearlong review - Friday, May 10, 2024

WASHINGTON (AP) — A bipartisan group of four senators led by Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is recommending that Congress spend at least $32 billion over the next three years to develop artificial intelligence and place safeguards around it, writing in a report released Wednesday that the U.S. needs to "harness the opportunities and address the risks" of the quickly developing technology.

20. Melinda French Gates resigns as Gates Foundation co-chair, 3 years after divorce - Friday, May 10, 2024

NEW YORK (AP) — Melinda French Gates will step down as co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the nonprofit she and her ex-husband Bill Gates founded and built into one of the world's largest philanthropic organizations over the past 20 years.

21. Some Georgia workers would find it harder to become union members under a new bill - Friday, March 22, 2024

ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia lawmakers have made it harder for workers at companies getting state economic incentives to unionize, in what could be a violation of federal law.

The state House voted 96 to 78 Wednesday for Senate Bill 362, which would bar companies that accept state incentives from recognizing unions without a formal secret-ballot election. The measure, which has been backed by Gov. Brian Kemp, now goes to the Republican governor for his signature.

22. Bloomberg tops the Chronicle of Philanthropy's list of America's biggest donors in 2023 - Friday, March 1, 2024

Michael Bloomberg, the former New York City mayor, gave the most to charitable causes last year, followed by Nike co-founder Phil Knight and his wife, Penny, and Michael Dell and his wife, Susan, according to the Chronicle of Philanthropy's exclusive list of the 50 Americans who donated the largest sums to nonprofits last year.

23. At Davos, leaders talked big on rebuilding trust. Can the World Economic Forum make a difference? - Friday, January 19, 2024

DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) — Business and political elites descended on the Swiss Alpine snows of Davos to suss out "rebuilding trust" in a splintering world. If there's any takeaway from the World Economic Forum's annual meeting — boldly touting that theme — it's that we still have a long way to go.

24. We could see the world's 1st trillionaire in the next decade. Here are some of today's richest 1% - Friday, January 19, 2024

NEW YORK (AP) — The world might see its first trillionaire sooner than you think. And that puts a spotlight on today's richest 1%.

In an annual assessment of global inequalities published earlier this week, Oxfam International said the first trillionaire could emerge within the next decade — as the anti-poverty organization pointed to the growing wealth gap that skyrocketed globally during the COVID-19 pandemic.

25. Open your hearts and wallets this holiday season - Friday, December 22, 2023

When asked as a kid what I wanted to be when I grew up, I sometimes replied “philanthropist.” It seemed a clever way to say, “I want to be so rich that I can give away money.”

26. Tech titans will give senators advice on artificial intelligence in a closed-door forum - Friday, September 8, 2023

WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has been talking for months about accomplishing a potentially impossible task: passing bipartisan legislation within the next year that encourages the rapid development of artificial intelligence and mitigates its biggest risks. On Wednesday, he's convening a meeting of some of the country's most prominent technology executives, among others, to ask them how Congress should do it.

27. Presidential centers from Hoover to Bush and Obama unite to warn of fragile state of US democracy - Friday, September 8, 2023

WASHINGTON (AP) — Concern for U.S. democracy amid deep national polarization has prompted the entities supporting 13 presidential libraries dating back to Herbert Hoover to call for a recommitment to the country's bedrock principles, including the rule of law and respecting a diversity of beliefs.

28. Congress returns to try to prevent a government shutdown while the GOP weighs an impeachment inquiry - Friday, September 1, 2023

WASHINGTON (AP) — After months of struggling to find agreement on just about anything in a divided Congress, lawmakers are returning to Capitol Hill to try to avert a government shutdown, even as House Republicans consider whether to press forward with an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden.

29. Southwood joins Neal & Harwell - Friday, August 4, 2023

John Southwood, CPA, has joined Neal & Harwell, PLC, as director of financial operations.

Southwood most recently served as director of finance and accounting at Waller in Nashville the past 14 years. Before his time at Waller, Southwood served as chief financial officer at Boult, Cummings, Conners & Berry, PLC, 1996-2009, and then served as controller when the firm merged with the Bradley Arant Rose & White LLP firm based in Birmingham.

30. Chatbots sometimes make things up. Not everyone thinks AI's hallucination problem is fixable - Friday, July 28, 2023

Spend enough time with ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence chatbots and it doesn't take long for them to spout falsehoods.

Described as hallucination, confabulation or just plain making things up, it's now a problem for every business, organization and high school student trying to get a generative AI system to compose documents and get work done. Some are using it on tasks with the potential for high-stakes consequences, from psychotherapy to researching and writing legal briefs.

31. Buffett has given $50.7B toward historic pledges to the Gates Foundation, others - Friday, June 23, 2023

After 17 years of steady payments, Warren Buffett has to date given annual donations totaling $50.7 billion toward his historic multibillion-dollar pledges to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and to four foundations connected to his family, according to a Chronicle tally. He announced his latest annual payments toward his pledges on Wednesday.

32. Chinese president Xi Jinping stresses US-China cooperation in meeting with Bill Gates - Friday, June 16, 2023

BEIJING (AP) — Chinese leader Xi Jinping said the United States and China can cooperate to "benefit our two countries" in a meeting Friday with Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates ahead of a visit by U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken at a time of strained relations.

33. Musk gadfly has a new jet to track - the one used by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis - Friday, May 19, 2023

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Jack Sweeney, the 20-year-old college student who was once banned from Twitter for posting the real-time movements of Elon Musk's jet, has a new aircraft in his sights: that of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.

34. Elon Musk says he'll create 'TruthGPT' to counter AI 'bias' - Friday, April 14, 2023

Billionaire Twitter owner Elon Musk is again sounding warning bells on the dangers of artificial intelligence to humanity — and claiming that a popular chatbot has a liberal bias that he plans to counter with his own AI creation.

35. Buffett says people shouldn't worry about Berkshire, banks - Friday, April 7, 2023

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Billionaire Warren Buffett assured investors Wednesday that Berkshire Hathaway will be fine when he's no longer around to lead the conglomerate.

Buffett said that after Vice Chairman Greg Abel takes over, Berkshire will still follow the same model of allowing its subsidiaries to largely run themselves while looking for other companies to buy with the substantial cash reserves it keeps on hand at all times.

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37. All economic signals point to ... something? anything? - Friday, February 10, 2023

Interest rates are dropping, the job market is spewing higher than expected numbers and some of the financial experts continue to talk of the looming recession. Apparently, the Federal Reserve is content with the fruits of its labor, and the most recent increase was a quarter of a point versus the 0.75 hikes levied last year.

38. Twitter suspends account that tracked owner Elon Musk's jet - Friday, December 9, 2022

Twitter has suspended an account that used publicly available flight data to track Elon Musk's private jet, despite a pledge by the social media platform's new owner to keep it up because of his free speech principles.

39. Indian coal magnate Gautam Adani goes green - Friday, December 2, 2022

NEW DELHI (AP) — Asia's richest man, Gautam Adani, made his vast fortune betting on coal as an energy hungry India grew swiftly after liberalizing its economy in the 1990s.

He's now set his sights on becoming the world's biggest renewable energy player, by 2030, adroitly aligning his investments with the government's own priorities.

40. Fired SpaceX employees accuse company of violating labor law - Friday, November 18, 2022

NEW YORK (AP) — Several SpaceX employees who were fired after circulating an open letter calling out CEO Elon Musk's behavior have filed a complaint accusing the company of violating labor laws.

The complaint, made Wednesday to the National Labor Relations Board, details the aftermath of what allegedly happened inside SpaceX after employees circulated the letter in June, which, among other things, called on executives to condemn Musk's public behavior on Twitter — including making light of allegations he sexually harassed a flight attendant — and hold everyone accountable for unacceptable conduct.

41. Jeff Bezos says he will give away most of his fortune - Friday, November 11, 2022

NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon founder Jeff Bezos said he will give away the majority of his wealth during his lifetime, becoming the latest billionaire to pledge to donate much of his vast fortune.

Bezos, whose "real-time" worth Forbes magazine estimates at roughly $124.1 billion, made the announcement in a joint CNN interview with his girlfriend Lauren Sanchez that was released on Monday. The billionaire didn't specify how - or to whom - he will give away the money, but said the couple were building the "capacity" to do it.

42. Democrats pad narrow leads in Arizona Senate, governor races - Friday, November 11, 2022

PHOENIX (AP) — Democrats padded their narrow leads in key Arizona contests on Thursday, but the races for U.S. Senate and governor were still too early to call with about a fifth of the total ballots left to be counted.

43. Narrow Democratic leads tighten in key Arizona races - Friday, November 11, 2022

PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona Democrats maintained small but dwindling leads Thursday over their Republican rivals in the races for U.S. Senate and governor, with control of the Senate and the rules for the 2024 election in a crucial battleground state at stake.

44. Biden to welcome first responders' kids for Halloween - Friday, October 28, 2022

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and his wife, Jill, on Monday were hosting the children of local firefighters, nurses, police officers and National Guard members for trick-or-treating at the White House on Halloween. But it was shaping up to be a soggy affair.

45. Gates Foundation donates $1B to prioritize math education - Friday, October 14, 2022

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced Wednesday that it is making grants of more than a $1 billion as part of a sweeping national plan to improve math education over the next four years. Its goal: to help students succeed in school and land well-paying jobs when they graduate, given research that shows the connection between strong math skills and career success.

46. Nuclear industry hopes to expand output with new reactors - Friday, June 17, 2022

The U.S. nuclear industry is generating less electricity as reactors retire, but now plant operators are hoping to nearly double their output over the next three decades, according to the industry's trade association.

47. Davos gathering overshadowed by global economic worries - Friday, May 20, 2022

DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) — Soaring inflation. Russia's war in Ukraine. Squeezed supply chains. The threat of food insecurity around the world. The lingering COVID-19 pandemic.

The risks to the global economy are many, leading to an increasingly gloomy view of the months ahead for corporate leaders, government officials and other VIPs at the World Economic Forum's annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland. The war has been a thread, setting back the global economic recovery from the pandemic, economists say.

48. EXPLAINER: How would billionaire income tax work? - Friday, March 25, 2022

WASHINGTON (AP) — A "Billionaire Minimum Income Tax" is included in President Joe Biden's fiscal year 2023 budget proposal — part of the administration's effort to reduce the federal deficit over the next decade and fund new spending. The proposal "eliminates the inefficient sheltering of income for decades or generations," the White House says.

49. EXPLAINER: How would billionaire income tax work? - Friday, March 25, 2022

WASHINGTON (AP) — A "Billionaire Minimum Income Tax" is included in President Joe Biden's fiscal year 2023 budget proposal — part of the administration's effort to reduce the federal deficit over the next decade and fund new spending. The proposal "eliminates the inefficient sheltering of income for decades or generations," the White House says.

50. TVA launches new nuclear program - Friday, February 11, 2022

The largest public power company in the U.S. is launching a program to develop and fund new small modular nuclear reactors as part of its strategy to dramatically reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

The board for the Tennessee Valley Authority on Thursday authorized the program to assess moving forward with new nuclear technology, with up to $200 million to be spent for the first phase. The TVA wants the technology to be available to help power the grid in the 2030s if it proves cost-effective and necessary, and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission approves. The board met at Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green, Kentucky.

51. Doeg elected to Baker Donelson board - Friday, February 4, 2022

Bruce C. Doeg has been elected a member of Baker Donelson’s board of directors by the firm’s shareholders.

Doeg, a shareholder in the firm’s Nashville office and co-chair of the Firm’s Privacy and Technology Center of Excellence, concentrates his practice in the area of business law with an emphasis on rapidly changing industries, including technology, digital health and life sciences.

52. Japan's Mitsubishi, energy body join Gates' nuclear project - Friday, January 28, 2022

TOKYO (AP) — Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and the Japan Atomic Energy Agency have signed an agreement to participate in a next-generation nuclear energy project with TerraPower, a company started by Bill Gates.

53. Climate, COVID, China: Takeaways from online Davos event - Friday, January 21, 2022

GENEVA (AP) — Government and business leaders have urged cooperation on the world's biggest issues — climate change, the coronavirus pandemic and the economic recovery — at the World Economic Forum's virtual gathering.

54. Group: Tax rich to fund vaccines for poor hit by pandemic - Friday, January 14, 2022

LONDON (AP) — Anti-poverty organization Oxfam called Monday for governments to impose a one-time 99% tax on the world's billionaires and use the money to fund expanded production of vaccines for the poor — part of an effort to combat global inequality widened by the coronavirus pandemic.

55. Microsoft opens harassment investigation sought by investors - Friday, January 14, 2022

Microsoft said Thursday it is opening an inquiry into how it responds to workplace sexual harassment and gender discrimination, including its handling of allegations about co-founder Bill Gates.

56. Scientist, enforcer, high-flyer: 3 women put a mark on tech - Friday, December 31, 2021

WASHINGTON (AP) — Three bright and driven women with ground-breaking ideas made significant — if very different — marks on the embattled tech industry in 2021.

Frances Haugen, Lina Khan and Elizabeth Holmes — a data scientist turned whistleblower, a legal scholar turned antitrust enforcer and a former Silicon Valley high-flyer turned criminal defendant — all figured heavily in a technology world where men have long dominated the spotlight. Think Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk.

57. Gates, French Gates offer post-divorce philanthropic plans - Friday, November 26, 2021

Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates say they will still work with the Giving Pledge, the campaign they co-founded with Warren Buffett in 2010 to encourage billionaires to donate the majority of their wealth through philanthropy.

58. Bezos makes gifts to Obama foundation, NYU medical center - Friday, November 19, 2021

Former President Barack Obama's foundation announced Monday that it has received a $100 million donation from Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, which it says is the largest individual contribution it has received to date.

59. Roads, transit, internet: What's in the infrastructure bill - Friday, November 12, 2021

WASHINGTON (AP) — The $1 trillion infrastructure plan that President Joe Biden plans to sign into law has money for roads, bridges, ports, rail transit, safe water, the power grid, broadband internet and more.

60. Colin Powell remembered as a model for future generations - Friday, November 5, 2021

WASHINGTON (AP) — Colin L. Powell, the trailblazing soldier-diplomat who rose from humble beginnings to become the first Black secretary of state, was remembered by family and friends Friday as a principled man of humility and grace whose decorated record of leadership can serve as a model for generations to come.

61. Who will get Powell Jobs' $3.5B gift for climate work? - Friday, October 15, 2021

Philanthropist Laurene Powell Jobs is gearing up to invest $3.5 billion into climate-focused initiatives in the next 10 years. But if the donation patterns of her foundation continue, the public might never know where that money is going.

62. UK courts green investment to fuel carbon-cutting plans - Friday, October 15, 2021

LONDON (AP) — The United Kingdom announced plans Tuesday to stop installing home heating that uses fossil fuels by 2035 as the government hosted a meeting aimed at attracting billions of dollars in foreign investment for green projects in Britain.

63. Small agency, big job: Biden tasks OSHA with vaccine mandate - Friday, September 17, 2021

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Occupational Safety and Health Administration doesn't make many headlines. Charged with keeping America's workplaces safe, it usually busies itself with tasks such as setting and enforcing standards for goggles, hardhats and ladders.

64. Gates, Rockefeller warn leaders about pandemic's impact - Friday, September 10, 2021

Just ahead of the annual meeting of the U.N. General Assembly that opens on Tuesday, leaders of the Gates and Rockefeller Foundations — grant makers that have committed billions of dollars to fight the coronavirus — are warning that without larger government and philanthropic investments in the manufacture and delivery of vaccines to people in poor nations, the pandemic could set back global progress on education, public health, and gender equality for years.

65. What's inside the Senate's bipartisan infrastructure bill - Friday, August 6, 2021

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate has passed a nearly $1 trillion bipartisan plan to rebuild roads and bridges, modernize public works systems and boost broadband internet, among other improvements to the nation's infrastructure.

66. What's inside the Senate's bipartisan infrastructure bill - Friday, August 6, 2021

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate has passed a nearly $1 trillion bipartisan plan to rebuild roads and bridges, modernize public works systems and boost broadband internet, among other improvements to the nation's infrastructure.

67. MacKenzie Scott, French Gates join to fund gender equality - Friday, July 30, 2021

An initiative from philanthropists Melinda French Gates, MacKenzie Scott and the family foundation of billionaire Lynn Schusterman awarded $40 million Thursday to four promoting gender equality projects in tech, higher education, caregiving and minority communities.

68. Bill, Melinda Gates to run foundation jointly after divorce - Friday, July 2, 2021

NEW YORK (AP) — 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 Gates and French Gates decide 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.

69. $40B pledged for gender equality, with $2B from Gates group - Friday, June 25, 2021

The U.N.-sponsored global gathering for gender equality generated about $40 billion in pledges towards aiding women and girls on Wednesday, partly fueled by a significant $2.1 billion contribution from Bill and Melinda Gates' namesake foundation.

70. Buffett resigns from Gates Foundation - Friday, June 18, 2021

NEW YORK (AP) — Warren Buffett resigned Wednesday as trustee of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which says it will announce plans in July to answer questions raised about its leadership structure as it deals with the divorce of its two founders.

71. ProPublica: Many of the uber-rich pay next to no income tax - Friday, June 4, 2021

WASHINGTON (AP) — The rich really are different from you and me: They're better at dodging the tax collector.

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos paid no income tax in 2007 and 2011. Tesla founder Elon Musk's income tax bill was zero in 2018. And financier George Soros went three straight years without paying federal income tax, according to a report Tuesday from the nonprofit investigative journalism organization ProPublica.

72. Bill Gates company to build reactor at Wyoming coal plant - Friday, May 28, 2021

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — A next-generation, small nuclear plant will be built at a soon-to-be retired coal-fired power plant in Wyoming in the next several years, business and government officials said Wednesday.

73. Pandemic or no, CEO pay rises again. Typical package: $12.7M - Friday, May 28, 2021

NEW YORK (AP) — As COVID-19 ravaged the world last year, CEOs' big pay packages seemed to be under as much threat as everything else.

Fortunately for those CEOs, many had boards of directors willing to see the pandemic as an extraordinary event beyond their control. Across the country, boards made changes to the intricate formulas that determine their CEOs' pay — and other moves — that helped make up for losses created by the crisis.

74. Bill Gates' leadership roles stay intact despite allegations - Friday, May 14, 2021

SEATTLE (AP) — Despite damaging allegations suggesting Bill Gates pursued women who worked for him, don't expect changes to his roles at the two iconic institutions he co-founded, Microsoft and his namesake philanthropic foundation.

75. Gates helps launch drive for global vaccine distribution - Friday, April 23, 2021

A new mass fundraising campaign aims to inspire 50 million people around the world to make small donations to Covax, the international effort to push for equitable global distribution of COVID-19 vaccinations.

76. Go forth and spend: Call for action closes US climate summit - Friday, April 23, 2021

WASHINGTON (AP) — World leaders shared tales of climate-friendly breakthroughs — and feverish quests for more — to close President Joe Biden's virtual global climate summit on Friday, from Kenyans abandoning kerosene lanterns for solar to Israeli start-ups straining for more efficient storage batteries.

77. Jobs are make-or-break argument for Biden in climate plan - Friday, April 23, 2021

WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is bringing out the billionaires, the CEOs and the union executives Friday to help sell President Joe Biden's climate-friendly transformation of the U.S. economy at his virtual summit of world leaders.

78. Billionaires John, Laura Arnold to give 5% of wealth yearly - Friday, April 2, 2021

Billionaire philanthropists John and Laura Arnold have committed to donate 5% of their wealth annually as part of an effort to encourage increased, timelier donations to charities.

The Arnolds, who live in Houston, are the first billionaires to sign on to the advocacy organization Global Citizen's "Give While You Live" campaign, which calls on the world's billionaires to give at least 5% of their wealth every year to a cause. The Arnolds' pledge Monday came as part of an alliance between Global Citizen and the Arnold-led Initiative to Accelerate Charitable Giving — a coalition of donors, experts and nonprofits who want Congress to raise giving requirements.

79. Warren Buffett's fortune tops $100B as his stock soars - Friday, March 12, 2021

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Investor Warren Buffett's fortune surged above $100 billion Wednesday when shares of his company hit a record high at over $400,000 apiece.

Berkshire Hathaway's Class A shares climbed to $407,750 Wednesday before giving up some ground to close the day at $398,840. The Class B shares of the Omaha, Nebraska, based conglomerate were selling for a much more affordable price of $263.99.

80. The superspreaders behind top COVID-19 conspiracy theories - Friday, February 12, 2021

As the coronavirus spread across the globe, so too did speculation about its origins. Perhaps the virus escaped from a lab. Maybe it was engineered as a bioweapon.

Legitimate questions about the virus created perfect conditions for conspiracy theories. In the absence of knowledge, guesswork and propaganda flourished.

81. Jeff Bezos, Amazon's founder, will step down as CEO - Friday, January 29, 2021

NEW YORK (AP) — Jeff Bezos, who founded Amazon and turned into an online shopping behemoth, is stepping down as the company's CEO, a role he's had for nearly 30 years.

He'll be replaced in the fall by Andy Jassy, who runs Amazon's cloud-computing business. Bezos, 57, will then become the company's executive chair.

82. Oxfam urges radical economic rejig for post-COVID world - Friday, January 22, 2021

LONDON (AP) — Anti-poverty organization Oxfam warned Monday that the fallout of the coronavirus pandemic will lead to the biggest increase in global inequality on record unless governments radically rejig their economies.

83. Debunked COVID-19 myths survive online, despite facts - Friday, December 18, 2020

CHICAGO (AP) — From speculation that the coronavirus was created in a lab to hoax cures, an overwhelming amount of false information clung to COVID-19 as it circled the globe in 2020.

Public health officials, fact checkers and doctors tried to quash hundreds of rumors in myriad ways. But misinformation around the pandemic has endured as vexingly as the virus itself. And with the U.S., U.K. and Canada rolling out vaccinations this month, many falsehoods are seeing a resurgence online.

84. Trump expected to flex pardon powers on way out door - Friday, November 27, 2020

WASHINGTON (AP) — Advocates and lawyers anticipate a flurry of clemency action from President Donald Trump in the coming weeks that could test the limits of presidential pardon power.

Trump is said to be considering a slew of pardons and commutations before he leaves office, including potentially members of his family, former aides and even himself. While it is not unusual for presidents to sign controversial pardons on their way out the door, Trump has made clear that he has no qualms about intervening in the cases of friends and allies whom he believes have been treated unfairly, including his former national security adviser, Michael Flynn.

85. Study finds long-acting shot helps women avoid HIV infection - Friday, November 6, 2020

Researchers are stopping a study early after finding that a shot of an experimental medicine every two months worked better than daily pills to help keep women from catching HIV from an infected sex partner.

86. Trump now says he won't let Pentagon close Stars and Stripes - Friday, September 4, 2020

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Friday that he won't allow the Pentagon to cut funding for the military's independent newspaper, Stars and Stripes, effectively halting Defense leaders plan to shut the paper down this month.

87. A growing list: Trump associates ensnared in legal troubles - Friday, August 21, 2020

WASHINGTON (AP) — The arrest Thursday of President Donald Trump's former chief strategist Steve Bannon adds to a growing list of the president's associates ensnared in legal trouble.

Bannon pleaded not guilty to charges that he ripped off donors to an online fundraising scheme to build a wall on the U.S. border with Mexico, a key Trump initiative.

88. Stocks barely budge on Wall Street; S&P 500 just shy of high - Friday, August 14, 2020

NEW YORK (AP) — Stock indexes barely budged on Wall Street Friday, leaving the S&P 500 just shy of its record once again.

The S&P 500 edged down 0.58 points, or less than 0.1%, to 3,372.85 after drifting between small gains and losses throughout the day. They're the latest meandering moves for the market, which has taken a pause after erasing almost all of the steep losses caused by the coronavirus pandemic.

89. 3 charged in massive Twitter hack, Bitcoin scam - Friday, July 31, 2020

MIAMI (AP) — A British man, a Florida man and a Florida teen hacked the Twitter accounts of prominent politicians, celebrities and technology moguls to scam people around globe out of more than $100,000 in Bitcoin, authorities said Friday.

90. Biden, Gates, other Twitter accounts hacked in Bitcoin scam - Friday, July 10, 2020

Unidentified hackers broke into the Twitter accounts of technology moguls, politicians, celebrities and major companies Wednesday in an apparent Bitcoin scam.

The ruse included bogus tweets from former President Barack Obama, Democratic presidential front-runner Joe Biden, Mike Bloomberg and a number of tech billionaires including Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and Tesla CEO Elon Musk. Celebrities Kanye West and his wife, Kim Kardashian West, were also hacked. The fake tweets offered to send $2,000 for every $1,000 sent to an anonymous Bitcoin address.

91. Buffett makes annual donations worth $2.9B to 5 charities - Friday, July 3, 2020

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Billionaire Warren Buffett has given away another $2.9 billion of his Berkshire Hathaway stock to five foundations as part of his plan to gradually give away his fortune.

Buffett disclosed the annual gifts Wednesday. The biggest donation went to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Buffett also gave stock to his own foundation and to the foundations run by each of his three children. Altogether, he donated nearly 16 million Class B Berkshire shares.

92. Trump eyes racial equality debate through economic lens - Friday, June 5, 2020

WASHINGTON (AP) — In his comments since George Floyd died, President Donald Trump has shared lots of opinions about the need for "law and order," about fighting crime and the dangerous ideas of the "liberal left." When it comes to addressing racism, not so much.

93. Malaria drug didn't help virus patients, big UK study finds - Friday, June 5, 2020

Leaders of a large study in the United Kingdom that is rigorously testing the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine and other medicines for hospitalized COVID-19 patients say they will stop putting people on the drug because it's clear it isn't helping.

94. Tear gas, threats for protesters before Trump visits church - Friday, May 29, 2020

WASHINGTON (AP) — It began with Attorney General Bill Barr standing with his hands casually in his pockets, not wearing a tie, surveying the scene at Lafayette Park across from the White House, where several thousand protesters had gathered for more demonstrations after the police killing of George Floyd.

95. Shutdown? Restrictions barely dent area home sales - Friday, May 1, 2020

Homes continue to sell during the COVID-19 pandemic, with 302 moving into the “under contract” category, Realtracs reports. That’s an increase of almost 20% compared to the 253 that went under contract the week before.

96. Delta's 1st quarterly loss in 5+ years; worse is on the way - Friday, April 17, 2020

Delta Air Lines, the biggest and most profitable U.S. airline, lost $534 million in the first quarter, a setback that will appear trivial when the full force of the pandemic is revealed in the current quarter.

97. Business Fallout: Lowe's hiring, McMenu shrinks, top Ford execs to defer pay - Friday, March 27, 2020

The outbreak of the coronavirus has dealt a shock to the global economy with unprecedented speed as it continues to spread across the world. Here is a look at some of the latest developments Thursday related to the global economy, particular economic sectors, and the workplace:

98. Many businesses cautious about restarting economy amid virus - Friday, March 20, 2020

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — President Donald Trump wants the country open for business by mid-April, but some experts warn it's not as easy as flipping a switch: Economies run on confidence, and that is likely to be in short supply for as long as coronavirus cases in the United States are still rising.

99. Top Middle Tennessee residential sales for February 2020 - Friday, March 20, 2020

Top residential real estate sales, February 2020, for Davidson, Williamson, Rutherford, Wilson and Sumner counties, as compiled by Chandler Reports.

100. Bezos commits $10 billion to fight climate change - Friday, February 14, 2020

NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon founder Jeff Bezos said Monday that he plans to spend $10 billion of his own fortune to help fight climate change.

Bezos, the world's richest man, said in an Instagram post that he'll start giving grants this summer to scientists, activists and nonprofits working to protect Earth.