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The gift is being made through Smith's Fund II Foundation, and will launch across 11 HBCUs that will be named sometime before the end of November, the press release says.

Over the past year, most of which has included battling COVID-19, China has created 257 brand new billionaires. Overall, there are 878 billionaires in China and they've added $1.5 trillion to their wealth over the past year.

If you're on social media, you've probably heard of The Lincoln Project. It's a relatively new super-PAC run by a number of prominent former Republican consultants who are hoping to defeat Donald Trump. At least 15 billionaires have donated to this super-PAC.

Schadenfreude is such a great word. When it comes to WeWork founder Adam Neumann and his shenanigans, we definitely feel some schadenfreude in learning that his $185 million consulting deal with WeWork was canceled.

Purdue Pharma, makers of OxyContin, will plead guilty to three federal criminal charges as part of a settlement of more than $8 billion, according to the Justice Department.

New York City is the most populous city in the United States. The New York City metro area is home to 23 million people. New York City is home to the highest number of billionaires of any city in the world.

The Dalio Center for Health Justice will be "dedicated to understanding and improving health equity, addressing health justice, and driving action that results in measurable improvements in health outcomes for all."

Palm Beach, Boca Raton, Bal Harbour, and other ritzy Miami enclaves regularly make the list of the most expensive zip codes in the U.S. It's no surprise then, that 22 billionaires call the Miami area home.

Seattle is the northernmost large city in the U.S., located just about 100 miles south of the Canadian border. It's also home to 10 billionaires – most notably Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates – the two richest people on the planet. Is it something in the water there?

Boston is the most populous city in Massachusetts with 696,600 people. The Greater Boston metro area is home to 4.8 million people. If you expand it out to the larger commuting area, it is home to 8.2 million people. 13 of those people are billionaires.

Mika Anttonen is an unlikely climate activist. He is the founder of Finnish energy company St1, which owns the St1 chain of gas stations in Finland, Sweden, Norway, and Poland. St1 owns around 1,400 service stations in those four countries.

The combined wealth of all the billionaires on earth just hit $10 trillion for the first time ever. From April 7 to July 31 of this year, billionaires in every single industry saw a double digit increase in their net worths.

Jeff Bezos could completely solve a number of global crisis and STILL be the richest person on the planet. Bezos could save the world – LITERALLY – and still be the richest person in the world. And that begs the question: why doesn't he?

The probe, which had gone on for years, centered on about $30 million in back taxes allegedly evaded by Smith, who has agreed to pay that, plus an $85 million penalty and around $25 million in interest.

Today, you can find just about everything under the sun for sale on Amazon, but it wasn't always that way. Back in 1994, when Jeff Bezos founded Amazon, he was simply trying to transform the way books were sold. How did the online retailer make this shift?