There were 26 billionaires including Warren Buffett and Larry Ellison whose fortunes rose more than $1 billion last month. October may be the spookiest month of the year, but it marked a welcome reprieve from an otherwise mostly ghastly stretch for investors. That’s true too for many of America’s richest people. A historic stock market…
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Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates has led by any measure a highly eventful life—but says no year was more “difficult” or “unusual” than 2021. The world’s No. 4 richest person (worth nearly $139 billion , Forbes estimates) opened up about his personal struggles—including his headline-making divorce from Melinda French Gates—in a year-in-review post published on Tuesday…
Your teachers probably told you grammar is important—but did they mention it could make you a billionaire? A $200 million investment round announced last week by popular grammar checking tool Grammarly didn’t just catapult the company’s value to $13 billion, but minted billionaires out of two of its founders: Max Lytvyn and Alex Shevchenko. The…
Over Half A Million Signal Petition To Reinstate Sha’Carri Richardson As Olympic Elimination Continues To Draw Outrage By Viber Topline A petition calling for star sprinter Sha’Carri Richardson to be reinstated on Crew USA for the Tokyo Olympics subsequent month has gained over 560,000 signatures in lower than per week, as her removing from the…
Topline Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra on Thursday responded to criticism unleashed by some Republicans this week over the Biden administration’s plan to go “door-to-door” to encourage Covid-19 vaccinations in targeted communities, arguing—contrary to what some GOP lawmakers have asserted—it is “absolutely” the business of the federal government to engage in such an…
Topline Despite spending months after the 2020 presidential election attacking the safety of mail-in voting, former President Donald Trump once again relied on the voting method to cast his ballot in a Florida municipal election held Tuesday. Key Facts First reported by The Palm Beach Post , Trump requested his mail-in ballot for the town’s…
Topline While not yet widespread, a Covid-19 variant that’s shown some resistance to antibody treatments and vaccines appears to be spreading “pretty efficiently” through New York, Dr. Anthony Fauci said Sunday. Key Facts Fauci, the nation’s leading infectious diseases official and a member of President Biden’s coronavirus task force, told CBS’s “Face the Nation” that…
Topline While a quickening vaccine rollout has some U.S. officials predicting a return to normalcy by the end of this year, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s leading infectious disease expert, said it’s “possible” the Covid-19 precaution of mask usage will linger into 2022. Key Facts Fauci said Sunday he agrees with President Biden’s prediction that…
Topline President Biden called on Congress to enact “commonsense” gun law reforms in a Sunday statement vowing a proactive approach from his administration on the third anniversary of the Parkland school shooting. Key Facts Commemorating the 17 lives lost at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, in 2018, Biden vowed that his administration…