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Apr 11 2024
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Trump meets everyday Americans at Chick-fil-A while Biden fine dines with Clintons, billionaires in DC
While former President Trump was out on the campaign trail meeting with everyday Americans at a Chick-fil-A restaurant in Georgia on Wednesday, President Biden was fine dining with the Clintons and other prestigious guests at the White House. In Atlanta, Trump met with locals and had unscripted conversations, bought them "the Lord’s chicken" and urged them to support his third bid for the
Fox News (Online News)Apr 06 2024
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Mark Zuckerberg passes archrival Elon Musk on billionaires list for first time since 2020
Mark Zuckerberg slid into third place on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index on Friday — surpassing his rival, Elon Musk, for the first time in four years. Zuckerberg, 39, added $58.9 billion to his net worth this year as Meta Platform Inc. soared to new heights, Bloomberg reported. The 52-year-old Musk, on the other hand, was ranked first on the index as recently as last month, after which his
New York Post (News)Mar 31 2024
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A Billionaire's Land Purchases In Rural Hawaii Have Locals Worried : Consider This from NPR
Hawaii is no stranger to extravagant homes owned by the super-rich. But when a tech billionaire started buying up land in Waimea, a small, rural town on the Big Island, the community got curious - and worried. Locals fear it will become even more difficult for Native Hawaiians to afford to live in Waimea and buy property. In Hawaii, the average home price is close to a million dollars. Who's
NPR Fact CheckMar 24 2024
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Billionaire Kathy Cargill Calls Duluth 'Small-Minded Community' In WSJ Report
DULUTH, Minn. — Duluth is a “small-minded community.” That’s what billionaire Kathy Cargill told the Wall Street Journal this weekend, and she went on to say Mayor Roger Reinert “peed in his cheerios” when he sent a letter to her asking what her plans are for 20 properties she recently purchased on Park Point. Cargill told the WSJ she still plans to keep her recently renovated vacation home on
Fox21Apr 10 2024
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Gymshark’s millennial CEO says he never thinks about his billionaire status because 'none of it is real'
For most entrepreneurs, reaching billionaire status would be the marker that you’ve finally made it. But Gymshark’s founder and CEO—and Britain’s youngest billionaire—Ben Francis insists that money is not a “real” measure of success. Francis, now worth over $1.3 billion, founded the sportswear brand at just 19 years old in 2012. As the company has grown from a business in his parents’ garage
FortuneApr 02 2024
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Billionaire whose firm backed Trump’s $175 million bond reveals how the deal came together
Don Hankey, the chairman and majority shareholder of Knight Specialty Insurance, told CNN on Tuesday that the deal to underwrite former President Donald Trump’s $175 million bond in New York came together quickly and that Trump posted all cash as collateral.
“It’s what we do. I’m happy to do it. We would have done it for anybody else,” Hankey said in a phone interview. “It was an easy
CNN (Online News)Mar 21 2024
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Utah tech billionaire sues neighbors challenging his house over their 'vicious' dogs
PARK CITY — Tech billionaire couple Matthew and Tatiana Prince have filed a lawsuit against their Park City neighbors, saying they can't go outside for fear of the "large, vicious and aggressive" dogs that are walked daily along a nearby pedestrian trail that runs through their property. This legal complaint follows an appeal filed this month by the neighbors — Eric Hermann and Susan Fredston-
KSLMar 21 2024
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Tech Billionaires' Project to Build a New City Accused of Tricking People Into Signing Petition
California Forever, a tech billionaire-backed project to develop a new city on hundreds of acres of Bay Area farmland, is entering a critical phase. After buying nearly a billion dollars worth of land in Solano County, the project’s developers now need to convince at least 13,000 county residents to support a ballot initiative that would authorize the development of that land. If voted for in
GizmodoApr 17 2024
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‘Financial underdog’ Larry Hogan trying to flip blue Senate seat as billionaire Democrat has given his own campaign $41 million
Maryland‘s open Senate seat contest is more competitive than expected, leading Democrats and Republicans from across the country to pour millions of dollars into the state. With Sen. Ben Cardin (D-MD) retiring from Congress, both Democratic and Republican candidates are spending millions of dollars just a month ahead from the state’s primary. The top contender for the Republican nomination is
Washington ExaminerMar 20 2024
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Four local nonprofits receive $7M donation from billionaire, philanthropist Mackenzie Scott
Scott is Amazon founder Jeff Bezos' former wife. In total, she donated $640 million to 361 small nonprofits. Three and in Oregon and one in Southwest Washington. Example video title will go here for this video Example video title will go here for this video PORTLAND, Oregon — On Tuesday, billionaire, philanthropist and Jeff Bezos’ former wife, MacKenzie Scott announced she is giving away $640
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