Bill Gates
What we learned from Bill Gates’s interview with Congress about Epstein
Bill Gates is shown leaving following a closed-door interview before the House’s oversight committee investigating late financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in Washington, D.C., on June 10. (Elizabeth Frantz/Reuters) Microsoft founder and philanthropist Bill Gates told a congressional panel that files released by the Justice Department in January only added to his embarrassment over interacting with the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The Epstein Transparency Act, passed in late 2025, mandated that the U.S. Justice Department release millions of files related to investigations into Epstein, whose death in aRead more
Bill Gates set to give away $200B US by 2045, says Musk is ‘killing’ world’s poorest children
Bill Gates pledged on Thursday to give away $200 billion US via his charitable foundation by 2045 and lashed out at Elon Musk, accusing the world’s richest man of “killing the world’s poorest children” through huge cuts to the U.S. foreign aid budget. The 69-year-old billionaire co-founder of Microsoft said he was speeding up his plans to divest almost all of his fortune and would close the foundation on Dec. 31, 2045, years earlier than previously planned. Gates said he believed the money would help achieve several of his goals, such as eradicating diseases like polio and malaria, ending preventable deaths among women and children, and reducing global poverty.Read more