Tag: Bill Gates

Bill Gates warned that President Trump's executive orders could put global health projects at risk. (AP Photo)

Bill Gates: Global health plans at risk under Trump

Daniel Chaitin · February 14, 2017 10:39 pm

Melinda Gates Doesn’t Want to Talk About Education

Alice B. Lloyd · June 24, 2016 8:46 pm

Melinda Gates said the initial absence of an app to record menstrual periods in the Apple Watch is evidence that the tech industry has become too dominated by men. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)

Melinda Gates slams lack of menstrual cycle app in Apple Watch

Mariana Barillas · June 24, 2016 5:13 pm

Bill Gates: Let Them Raise Chickens!

Alice B. Lloyd · June 17, 2016 12:11 pm

Gates Foundation Admits Missteps of Common Core

Alice B. Lloyd · May 25, 2016 4:07 am

"Far too many districts report that identifying or developing Common Core-aligned materials is a challenge, meaning that teachers spend their time adapting or creating curriculum, developing lessons, and searching for supplemental materials," Gates Foundation CEO Sue Desmond-Hellmann writes in an open letter. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

Beltway Confidential

Gates Foundation ‘doubling down’ on Common Core

Jason Russell · May 23, 2016 4:44 pm

The billionaire founder of Microsoft had previously spoken against divestment. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Energy and Environment

Bill Gates drops BP holdings to divest from fossil fuels

Kyle Feldscher · May 12, 2016 2:21 pm

—œThere probably are some cases where [the government] should be able to go in covertly and get information about a company’s email,—? Bill Gates said at a Reuters event in Washington. (AP Photo)

National Security

Bill Gates on the fence in privacy vs. security debate

Rudy Takala · April 19, 2016 3:32 pm

It is no different than [the question of] should anybody ever have been able to tell the phone company to get information, should anybody be able to get at bank records," Bill Gates said.

Bill Gates takes a bite out of Apple on encryption

Rudy Takala · February 23, 2016 4:00 pm

Vice President Joe Biden, left, with wife Jill Biden, said "We have the capacity to change the desperate circumstances endured by millions of people around the world and to change those circumstances in real time -- not down the road, not a long time from now." (Photo by Greg Allen/Invision/AP)

Biden celebrates Obama’s bold new anti-AIDS goals

Anna Giaritelli · December 2, 2015 6:35 am

"By 2020, I want 100 percent of American households to have access to quality, affordable high-speed internet, no matter where they live," said Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. (AP Photo/Cheryl Senter)

Clinton: Internet for all U.S. households by 2020

Curt Mills · November 30, 2015 7:07 am

Billionaire says he will use billions of his own money for clean energy research and development. (Photo by Greg Allen/Invision/AP)

Energy and Environment

Bill Gates to announce world’s largest clean energy partnership in Paris

Kyle Feldscher · November 27, 2015 6:13 pm