According to The New York Times, Bill Gates privately said he donated about $50 million to a nonprofit organization supporting Kamala Harris. The outlet cited three people briefed on the matter. “The donation was meant to stay under wraps. Mr. Gates, one of the founders of Microsoft, has not publicly endorsed Ms. Harris, and his donation would represent a significant change in the strategy that has previously kept him away from gifts like this,” The New York Times wrote. BREAKING: Bill Gates Privately Says He Has Backed Harris With $50 Million Donation – NYT — Insider Paper (@TheInsiderPaper) October 22, 2024 From The New York Times: In private calls this year to friends and others, Mr. Gates has expressed concern about what a second Donald Trump presidency would look like, according to a person briefed on Mr. Gates’s thinking, although he has stressed that he could work with either candidate. Mr. Gates does not have a deep relationship with Ms. Harris, but he has celebrated the Biden-Harris administration’s work on climate change. Mr. Gates’s philanthropic organization, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, is significantly concerned about potential cuts to family planning and global health programs if Mr. Trump is elected, according to two people close to the foundation. Mr. Gates has said he made his donation to Future Forward, the main outside fund-raising group supporting Ms. Harris, according to the people briefed on the matter. Mr. Gates has talked about his pro-Harris donation with his peers, including Mike Bloomberg, the former New York City mayor and a major supporter of Future Forward who has considered a similarly sized gift, two of the people briefed said. Mr. Gates’s donation went specifically to Future Forward’s nonprofit arm, Future Forward USA Action, which as a 501(c)(4) “dark money” organization does not disclose its donors, according to the people briefed. So any contribution by Mr. Gates will never appear on any public filing. In response to the outlet’s report, Gates did not explicitly address the donation or provide an endorsement of Harris. However, he reportedly said that “this election is different.” Bill Gates, one of the richest people in the world, has said privately that he donated about $50 million to a nonprofit organization that is supporting Vice President Kamala Harris’s presidential run, according to three people briefed on the matter. https://t.co/hh3mmhGC3I pic.twitter.com/d1QKIdb30t — The New York Times (@nytimes) October 22, 2024 Melinda French Gates has also backed Kamala Harris, saying she gave a ‘substantial’ donation to the Harris-Walz campaign. Melinda French Gates says she made a 'substantial' donation to the Harris-Walz campaign https://t.co/hWELSj7JKo — KatWhitman (@Mile_by_Mile) September 12, 2024 Business Insider reports: After making her first-ever presidential endorsement this spring, billionaire philanthropist Melinda French Gates said she made a “substantial” donation to Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign, Vanity Fair reported. When French Gates was still a part of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which she cofounded with her ex-husband Bill Gates, she generally avoided wading into partisan causes. She has given money to Republicans and Democrats alike, but determined that a second term with former President Donald Trump “would be dangerous” for reproductive rights in particular. In fact, French-Gates, who focuses in large part on women’s and reproductive rights, referenced abortion when she endorsed Harris in a post on X. In May, she committed to spending $1 billion through 2026 to groups working for women, families, and reproductive rights. French-Gates, who is worth nearly $11 billion, did not specify how much she had donated to the Harris-Walz campaign. But her support extends beyond a a direct financial contribution — French-Gates said that she has also offered to host events.

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The trailer for the final season of “Yellowstone” dropped on Tuesday, making it clear there’s going to be a war with members of the Dutton family in order to keep their legacy and land. In the one-minute plus clip shared by the Paramount Network on YouTube, there are numerous shots of Kevin Costner’s character John Dutton talking about how a “war is just beginning,” despite the fact that we’ve been told Costner wouldn’t be part of the final season following his departure from the show last year. “Everyone’s forgotten who runs this valley. It’s time to remind them,” a voiceover of Costner can be heard while images of the Dutton family and ranch come across the screen. There’s a series of quick, suspenseful images of the members of the Dutton family, specifically Jaime Dutton’s character (played by Wes Bentley) and rival sister Beth Dutton (played by Kelly Reilly) clearly in a battle over their family legacy and ranch. “The only thing left to do is kill as much as you can before they kill you,” Reilly says at the end of the clip. It’s giving audiences an idea what to expect when the second half of Season 5 comes out November 10 — two years after the first half of Season 5 debuted. The “Waterworld” star previously told GQ that a scheduling conflict had nothing to do with his departure from the series amid reports that blamed him for halting production on the second half of the season due to filming for his western movie “Horizon: An American Saga-Chapter 1,” followed by the writers’ and actors’ strikes, as previously reported. Costner said he offered options for killing off his character so he could make both work, saying, “‘Well, if you want to kill me, if you want to do something like that,’ I said, ‘I have a week before I start. I’ll do what you want to do.’” MATT WALSH’S ‘AM I RACIST?’ COMING TO DAILYWIRE+ OCT. 28 The “Dances with Wolves” star said despite everything that has happened, he would be open to returning to the series, Deadline noted. Paramount later released a statement to Fox News about Costner’s GQ comments and said, “Kevin has been a big part of ‘Yellowstone’s’ success.” “While we had hoped that we would continue working with him, unfortunately, we could not find a window that worked for him, all the other talent, and our production needs in order to move forward together,” the statement read. “We respect that Kevin has prioritized his new film series and we wish him the best.” The “Yellowstone” series focuses on the “Dutton family who controls the largest contiguous cattle ranch in the United States. Amid shifting alliances, unsolved murders, open wounds and hard-earned respect — the ranch is in constant conflict with those it borders — an expanding town, an Indian reservation, and America’s first national park,” The Hollywood Reporter noted. Related: ‘Yellowstone’ Fans Get Their First Peek At Final Season