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Feb 19 2024
News
Swiss Billionaire’s Nonprofit Sent $35 Million To Dark Money Group Propping Up Dems
The Berger Action Fund, one arm of liberal Swiss billionaire Hansjörg Wyss’ philanthropic empire, gave tens of millions to one of America’s most prolific Democrat-aligned dark money groups.
The Berger Action Fund, a 501(c)(4) nonprofit organization, gave $35 million to the liberal dark money group Sixteen Thirty Fund in 2022, tax documents show. Sixteen Thirty Fund in 2022 poured tens
The Daily CallerMar 16 2024
News
Billionaire Frank McCourt got divorced and sold the LA Dodgers. The 'character assassination' he experienced online changed his life and sent him on a Big Tech crusade
What possesses the wealthy scion of one of America’s greatest industrialist families to embark on a late-in-life crusade to overhaul the fundamental infrastructure of the entire internet? Something that even exorbitant wealth can’t shield someone from: How mean people can be on the internet. During a messy, public divorce, which ultimately settled in 2011, Frank McCourt Jr., then the owner of
FortuneFeb 05 2024
Analysis
Elon Musk has lost more money this year than most billionaires are worth
The Wall Street Journal has yet another story this morning about Elon Musk’s drug use —“ketamine recreationally through a nasal spray bottle,” “ecstasy from a water bottle,” among other substances and delivery methods—this time concerning how he does them with board members of his various companies, some of whom have amassed very valuable stock options in their time there. (Musk didn’t comment
QuartzJan 18 2024
News
Tech Billionaires Release Map of Utopian City They Want to Build in California
California Forever, the quixotic, billionaire-backed project to build a new city in the Bay Area, is chugging along. Despite the fact that locals seem to hate it, the Silicon Valley dreamers behind the project remain undeterred. The team planning the city released more details about its proposed development, including a map of what the hypothetical future city might eventually look like.
GizmodoJan 30 2024
News
Baltimore Orioles Set to Be Sold to Group Led by Private Equity Billionaires, per Report
The team has been owned by the Angelos family since 1993. The Baltimore Orioles are expected to have new owners in the near future. According to a report from John Ourand at Puck News, current owner John Angelos has agreed to sell the team to a group led by billionaires David Rubenstein and Mike Arougheti. The deal values the Orioles at $1.725 billion. Per Ourand, Rubenstein’s group will start
KFOR 4Jan 17 2024
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Silicon Valley billionaires’ Solano County utopia plan, ballot initiative revealed
Hundreds of thousands of residents. Thousands of well-paid jobs. Hundreds of millions of dollars in support for home purchases and low-income housing. Tens of millions of dollars in grants for education and training. Offices. Factories. Roads. Schools. Transit. Parks. These are the promises from California Forever, the controversial company backed by Silicon Valley billionaires planning to
SiliconValley.comDec 07 2023
News
Billionaire in talks to acquire Baltimore Orioles, per report
Billionaire in talks to acquire Baltimore Orioles, per report The Baltimore Orioles could soon be purchased, according to a report.Bloomberg's Gillian Tan reports that Carlyle Group Inc. co-founder David Rubenstein is in talks to acquire the Orioles.Team officials did not respond to an 11 News request for comment.Current majority owner Peter Angelos has taken a backseat to his son John Angelos
WBAL 11Dec 07 2023
News
Billionaire David Rubenstein in talks to buy Baltimore Orioles
David Rubenstein, the chairman of the Carlyle Group, is in advanced talks to purchase the Baltimore Orioles.
The team is currently owned by the Angelos family, who have been principal shareholders in the Orioles since 1993.
According to Bloomberg, these talks are preliminary with a chance for the deal to fall apart and nothing has been finalized.
Rubenstein is a Baltimore
Daily MailFeb 20 2024
Perspectives Blog
As Billionaire George Soros Takes Control of 235 Radio Stations, AllSides Offers Path to Protect Media Integrity: Give Your Input
Billionaire George Soros just bought a controlling stake in 235 U.S. radio stations ahead of the 2024 elections.
News media integrity is under threat from partisan billionaires on both sides — but AllSides can tell you which outlets are biased.
Take our survey below to submit a radio station for bias review.
Any partisan manipulation of the news — from the left or
AllSides StaffJan 07 2024
News
Billionaire Bill Ackman Flip-Flops on Plagiarism After Wife Gets Caught
Bill Ackman has toned down his vitriol toward former Harvard President Claudine Gay’s alleged plagiarism after Business Insider reported on Friday that his wife, Neri Oxman, copied portions of Wikipedia articles and scholarly documents in her doctoral dissertation at MIT. In a long-winded, 5,139-word post on X, formerly Twitter, on Saturday night, Ackman wrote that it is “a near certainty that
Daily Beast