OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Investor Warren Buffett has given away Berkshire Hathaway stock worth $13.5 million to five different charities since last summer.

The gifts of Class B Berkshire stock were disclosed in documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday. These ...

SEATTLE (AP) — Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has given $1 million to a November ballot measure in Washington state that would charge a fee on carbon emissions from fossil fuels.

Gates wrote in a blog post recently that he would contribute to the Yes on 1631 campaign. Updated finance ...

SEATTLE (AP) — Philanthropists Bill and Melinda Gates have together donated $1 million to a November ballot measure in Washington state that would charge a fee on carbon emissions from fossil fuels.

Gates, who co-founded Microsoft, wrote in a blog post last week that he would contribute to ...

JAMESTOWN, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina community college has brokered a deal to help its graduates earn bachelor’s degrees for no more than $10,000.

The News & Record

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Billionaire Warren Buffett has given another $3.4 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 Monday. The biggest donation went to the Bill & Melinda Gates ...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations is establishing a high-level panel co-chaired by Chinese e-commerce billionaire Jack Ma and the wife of Microsoft founder Bill Gates to make recommendations on ensuring “a safe and inclusive digital future.”

Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said ...

ORONO, Maine (AP) — Researchers with the University of Maine are using an award of more than $430,000 from the National Institutes of Health to research immune responses to influenza.

The University of Maine says the scientists believe novel treatments that work independently of the ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A director at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation was chosen Monday to be the new chancellor of Pennsylvania’s 14 state-owned universities, which have struggled with state aid cuts and to recruit students to its rural campuses.

The Pennsylvania State System of ...

DURANGO, Colo. (AP) — Fort Lewis College in Durango has named its next president.

The Durango Herald reports Tom Stritikus, deputy director of K-12 Education at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, will take over Aug. 1 for ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) — Purdue University researchers who designed specially sealed bags to keep insects from eating harvested grain are looking to go worldwide.

The Purdue Improved Crop Storage bag is designed to cut off the oxygen supply, eliminating insect damage in storage of dry ...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The Virginia Growth and Opportunity Board has approved two grants totaling $930,000 for projects in Richmond and the Tri-Cities region.

The Richmond Times-Dispatch

GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) — The University of Florida has received an $8.7 million grant aimed at research that will reduce hunger in Africa.

The school said the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will fund hunger research over five years at the Institute of Food and Agricultural ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) — A Purdue University professor has received a $5 million grant to help develop hybrid grain seeds that will resist parasite weeds.

Gebisa Ejeta received the four-year grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Billionaire Warren Buffett has donated $3.2 billion worth of his Berkshire Hathaway stock to five charities as part of his plan to gradually give away his fortune.

Buffett disclosed the annual gifts Monday. The biggest block of shares went to the Bill & Melinda Gates ...

SEATTLE (AP) — The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is awarding $279 million to the University of Washington to expand its work in improving global population health.

The grant funds another decade of work at the university’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, which provides ...

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — New Warren Buffett documentary will be shown in billionaire investor’s hometown of Omaha.

The Omaha premiere comes one week ahead of when the film will debut on HBO. Buffett and his family is expected to attend the Omaha event at the Holland Performing Arts Center Monday ...

NEW YORK (AP) — The Rockefeller Foundation, which doles out nearly $200 million to various charitable causes each year, has picked its new president.

The New York Times (http://nyti.ms/2jbv4ix ) reports that Rajiv J. Shah, a trustee of the organization, will succeed Judith Rodin, who has ...

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Billionaire Warren Buffett’s life and the way he made his fortune as an investor will be the focus of a new documentary on HBO next year.

The “Becoming Warren Buffett” documentary will debut Jan. 30.

The film uses ...