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Jeff Bezos pledged $10 billion for climate change. With the 2030 clock ticking, his wife, Lauren Sánchez Bezos, is leading the charge to spend it
Jeff Bezos pledged $10 billion for climate change. With the 2030 clock ticking, his wife, Lauren Sánchez Bezos, is leading the charge to spend it

The Bezos Earth Fund has disbursed more than $2 billion so far. With less than four years left to deploy the rest, the couple’s philanthropy is accelerating—though it still trails MacKenzie Scott’s by billions.

By Sydney LakeApril 15, 2026
Members of the public pose for photographs beside the Charging Bull, sometimes referred to as the Bull of Wall Street or the Bowling Green Bull on Broadway on April 14, 2025 in New York City.
Markets haven’t rallied this fast since COVID. Iran volatility is just another ‘notch on the belt’ for investors, says J.P. Morgan strategist
By Eleanor PringleApril 15, 2026
hippo
Colombia approves plan to kill cocaine hippos roaming through center of country
By Manuel Rueda and The Associated PressApril 13, 2026
Legendary investor says the AI boom masks a deeper crisis: Falling sperm counts, shrinking populations, and vanishing resources
Legendary investor says the AI boom masks a deeper crisis: Falling sperm counts, shrinking populations, and vanishing resources
By Nick LichtenbergApril 12, 2026
zohran
Zohran Mamdani’s promise at 100 days: ‘At our stores, eggs will be cheaper. Bread will be cheaper’
By Anthony Izaguirre and The Associated PressApril 13, 2026
A major U.S. gasoline production hub is in such a severe drought that its refineries may be hobbled. ‘We are actively praying for a hurricane’
A major U.S. gasoline production hub is in such a severe drought that its refineries may be hobbled. ‘We are actively praying for a hurricane’
By Michael Phillis and The Associated PressApril 12, 2026
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PoliticsTeacher, blame thyself: Yale report savages Ivy League schools for destroying American trust in higher education
By Nick LichtenbergApril 15, 2026
Fed Chair nominee Kevin Warsh is worth more than $100 million and has stakes in SpaceX and Polymarket
BankingFed Chair nominee Kevin Warsh is worth more than $100 million and has stakes in SpaceX and Polymarket
By Jacqueline MunisApril 15, 2026
From wool sneakers to GPUs: Allbirds’ desperate AI pivot and 600% stock surge, explained
AIFrom wool sneakers to GPUs: Allbirds’ desperate AI pivot and 600% stock surge, explained
By Phil WahbaApril 15, 2026
Pause AI and Stop AI: Meet the anti-AI groups facing questions after the attack on Sam Altman
AIPause AI and Stop AI: Meet the anti-AI groups facing questions after the attack on Sam Altman
By Sharon GoldmanApril 15, 2026
live nation
Law‘Robbing them blind, baby’: Live Nation and Ticketmaster are a monopoly, jury rules
By Larry Neumeister and The Associated PressApril 15, 2026
trump
PoliticsDonald and Leo is the latest power-versus-pope showdown stretching back 1,000 years
By Joëlle Rollo-Koster and The ConversationApril 15, 2026
warren
Arts & EntertainmentElizabeth Warren on her proposal to bring back IRS Direct File: ‘For just one day of bombing Iran, we could pay for 20 years’
By Catherina GioinoApril 15, 2026
Pete Hegseth speaks with both hands in the air as Donald Trump looks on in the background.
Politics‘I am certain’: Harvard policy expert warns the true cost of the Iran war to U.S. taxpayers will exceed $1 trillion
By Sasha RogelbergApril 15, 2026
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coal
EnergyIEA heralds ‘the Age of Electricity’ while warning that oil may not peak in 2030 after all
By Nick LichtenbergNovember 12, 2025
  • EVs
    EnvironmentOregon is trying to plug a $300 million hole in its transportation budget with a pay-per-mile fee for electric vehicle owners
    By Claire Rush and The Associated PressAugust 29, 2025
House
CommentaryCreating resilient communities to avoid the next housing crisis
By Pete Walther and Francis BouchardNovember 12, 2025
energy
EnvironmentThe world isn’t ready for the electricity surge that’s coming, IEA warns, saying it’s ‘no longer limited to emerging and developing economies’
By Alexa St. John and The Associated PressNovember 12, 2025
Cop30
CommentaryCOP30: The private sector’s make-or-break moment for a 1.5°C future
By Sanda Ojiambo, Solange Ribeiro and Jesper BrodinNovember 11, 2025
Elon Musk’s Boring Company fined nearly $500K after it dumped drilling fluids into Las Vegas manholes—then ‘feigned compliance’ and was caught doing it again
EnvironmentElon Musk’s Boring Company fined nearly $500K after it dumped drilling fluids into Las Vegas manholes—then ‘feigned compliance’ and was caught doing it again
By Jessica Mathews and Leo SchwartzNovember 8, 2025
Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan
Personal FinanceBank of America CEO sees a ‘huge opportunity’ in the U.S. wealth business and ultra-high net worth
By Sheryl EstradaNovember 8, 2025
  • Florida python
    EnvironmentFlorida is deploying robot rabbit lures that cost $4,000 apiece in a desperate push to solve the Everglades’ python problem
    By Curt Anderson, Cody Jackson and The Associated PressAugust 28, 2025
Subway
LawIt’s not assault to throw a Subway sandwich at a border patrol agent, DC jury rules
By Michael Kunzelman and The Associated PressNovember 7, 2025
Coal
Health‘They ain’t worried about the miners or people in West Virginia or coal miners anywhere’: Black lung sufferers despair over DC’s distance
By Margie Mason and The Associated PressNovember 7, 2025
malaria no more
CommentaryMalaria isn’t just a health crisis — it’s an economic imperative
By Martin Edlund and Florizelle LiserNovember 7, 2025
Georgia
PoliticsDemocrats had such a big election night they even booted Republicans out of Georgia’s Public Service Commission
By Jeff Amy and The Associated PressNovember 6, 2025
Cop30
CommentaryProgress but uneven: Energy transition reality check
By Chris Bradley, Mekala Krishnan and Humayun TaiNovember 6, 2025
  • A german shepherd and a FEMA worker search for damage and victims in the wake of Hurricane Helen. They walk next to a pile of branches and debris.
    EnvironmentTrump critics inside FEMA put on indefinite leave after blasting cuts in dissent letter
    By Gabriela Aoun Angueira and The Associated PressAugust 27, 2025
The under-the-radar factor that helped Democrats win in Virginia, New Jersey, and Georgia 
AIThe under-the-radar factor that helped Democrats win in Virginia, New Jersey, and Georgia 
By Sharon GoldmanNovember 5, 2025
Subway
Law‘No matter who you are, you can’t just go around throwing stuff at people because you’re mad’: DC riveted by Subway sandwich hurling case
By Michael Kunzelman and The Associated PressNovember 5, 2025
An aerial view of one of Microsoft's data centers on a sunny day
InvestingThis ETF is handily beating the S&P 500—and analysts say it could be one of the big winners of the AI boom
By Dave SmithNovember 3, 2025
A close-up of Bill Gates' face
EnergyBill Gates says a ‘doomsday’ outlook on climate is driving people to focus on the wrong things
By Dave SmithOctober 28, 2025
Land O'Lakes CEO Beth Ford speaks at MPW
ConferencesBeth Ford says ‘we need more legal immigration’ to help American farmers because a lack of labor could trigger a ‘black swan event’
By Dave SmithOctober 14, 2025
Trump speaks from the Resolute Desk
North AmericaOver 70% of H-1B visa holders are Indian citizens. Its government says Trump jacking the fee to $100,000 is ‘likely to have humanitarian consequences’
By Dave SmithSeptember 22, 2025
NYU Professor Suzy Welch
SuccessSuzy Welch says Gen Z and millennials are burnt out because older generations worked just as hard, but they ‘had hope’
By Dave SmithSeptember 19, 2025
Dirtbag Billionaire
EnvironmentHow Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard decided to give away his billions
By David GellesSeptember 9, 2025
Will small nuclear reactors start Europe’s atomic renaissance?
EuropeWill small nuclear reactors start Europe’s atomic renaissance?
By Anna HeimSeptember 9, 2025
Secret fresh water
EnvironmentFirst-of-its-kind study finds ‘secret fresh water’ that may stretch from New Jersey to Maine
By Calvin Woodward, Carolyn Kaster, Rodrique Ngowi and The Associated PressSeptember 7, 2025
Donald Trump
EnvironmentConnecticut, Rhode Island, reeling wind giant Orsted sue Trump administration for canceling nearly finished offshore projects
By Jennifer McDermott and The Associated PressSeptember 5, 2025
Wildfires
EnvironmentWhat caused the historic LA wildfire? The federal government accuses Southern California Edison
By Jaimie Ding and The Associated PressSeptember 5, 2025
Canal jumper
EnvironmentCarbon storage challenged as climate change silver bullet by massive underground study
By Tammy Webber and The Associated PressSeptember 5, 2025
Flood
EnvironmentOne out of every 4 homes is at ‘severe or extreme’ climate risk, study says
By Nick LichtenbergSeptember 3, 2025
Gray wolves
EnvironmentCattle ranchers talk to wolves by blasting AC/DC’s ‘Thunderstruck’ or dialogue from movies: ‘I am not putting up with this anymore!’
By Cedar Attanasio and The Associated PressAugust 31, 2025
With the shuttered Homer City coal plant in the background, at the Lucerne Reclamation project site in Pennsylvania, a worker moves coal refuse to be prepared for transport to be cleaned on June 12, 2024. The soil, contaminated by coal refuse, is cleaned and returned to the land where it is encased and covered with top soil and planted as a meadow.
EnergyHow the AI data center boom is breathing new life into transforming dirty, old coal plants
By Jordan BlumAugust 31, 2025
oil
EnvironmentCalifornia crowed that it ‘finally beat big oil’ 2 years ago. Regulators just halted the landmark penalty payments
By Sophie Austin and The Associated PressAugust 30, 2025
New Mexico
Environment‘It’s so dystopian. It’s sad’: The Rio Grande River is so dry that Texas, Colorado and New Mexico are squabbling over groundwater
By Susan Montoya Bryan, Morgan Lee and The Associated PressAugust 30, 2025
Donald Trump
EnvironmentTrump breaks wind funding again, canceling $679 million in federal funding for a dozen offshore projects
By Matthew Daly and The Associated PressAugust 29, 2025
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Billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott has donated again—a week after gifting millions to a college, she's just given $70 million to Meals on Wheels Americaplaceholder alt text
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