Kroger, the grocery giant, is donating $1 million to the survivors of a deadly shooting in one of their locations in Collierville, Tennessee, which occurred just over a week ago. On Saturday morning, September 23, a man walked into the grocery store and opened fire. He injured 15 people, killed one, and then turned his gun […]
Inspiration4 was the first crewed orbital mission to take no astronauts, only tourists. The SpaceX flight was chartered by Jared Isaacman, a billionaire defense contractor and pilot. Aside from being a feather in the cap of the four passengers, the flight aboard the Crew Dragon Resilience was meant to raise awareness, support, and funds for […]
Tom Golisano, 79, made his fortune in founding Paychex, a payroll and human resources service that contracts with hundreds of thousands of businesses around the world. The company, which went public in the early 1980s and operates in 18 countries, brings in around $4.1 billion in revenue a year. Still chairman of the board, Golisano […]
A particularly evil part of the new abortion law in Texas is that it allows anyone to sue anyone who “knowingly” assists in an abortion after the detection of a heartbeat–including the medical provider, third parties paying for the procedure, or even a family member driving the patient out of state to a clinic for […]
Tom Daley loves “all things stitching,” and the Olympic gold medalist’s knitting is helping send money to a charity for brain tumors. Olympic reporting blew up last week with pictures of the diver for Great Britain sitting in the stands, intently knitting a pink-purple shape. He was watching women’s diving on Sunday at the time. […]
Joe and Clara Tsai, a billionaire couple from La Jolla, California, have made the largest ever known donation for sports-related medical research. The Tsais announced that they’ll be donating $220 million to scientists to study the biology of elite athletes for the purposes of helping the average person lead fitter, healthier lives. The timing, one […]
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos will be an astronaut after his July 20th launch aboard the Blue Origin rocket New Shepard, alongside his brother Mark Bezos, 82-year-old pilot Wally Funk and 18-year-old Oliver Daemen. The flight will last only 11 minutes, but Daemen’s seat sold at auction for $28 million. With that kind of money in […]
Phil Knight, former head of Nike, has donated half a billion dollars to the University of Oregon – for the second time. Born and raised in Portland, Oregon, Phil Knight attended the University of Oregon in the late 1950s. He graduated in ’59 with a degree in journalism, but the real set up for success […]
Sadio Mané is a professional footballer in Liverpool. Born in Bambali, Sédhiou, Senegal, the 29-year-old represented Senegal in the Olympics and the 2018 FIFA World Cup before he signed with Premier League side Liverpool for a £34 million (47.2 million USD) contract. He’s regarded as one of the current best footballers in the world and […]
Philanthropist MacKenzie Scott is making her third multi-billion-dollar donation to charity in two years. In 2019, Scott divorced Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, at the time the wealthiest man in the world. In the amicable parting, Scott wound up owning 4 percent of Amazon and nearly $40 billion, a fortune which will continue to make her […]