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Bill Gates says he will give away most of his fortune by 2045
Bill Gates plans to give away most of his fortune by 2045, he tells BBC Newshour. He said his eponymous foundation has already given $100bn (£75bn) towards health and development projects. He expects it will spend another $200bn, depending on markets and inflation, over the next two decades. “People will say a lot of things about me when I die, but I am determined that ‘he died rich’ will not be one of them,” he wrote in a blog post on Thursday. “We can spend a lot more if we’re not trying to be perpetual, and I know that the spending will be in line with my values,” he said. “It’s really about the urgency,” he added. “I’m disappointed that [Musk] made abrupt cuts and characterised them in a way that was unfair, including that, it was to prevent mothers from infecting their money,” he continued.
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Gates, 69, said his eponymous foundation has already given $100bn (£75bn) towards health and development projects, and that he expects it will spend another $200bn, depending on markets and inflation, over the next two decades.
“People will say a lot of things about me when I die, but I am determined that ‘he died rich’ will not be one of them,” he wrote in a blog post on Thursday.
Gates said he would accelerate his giving via his foundation, with plans to end its operations in 2045.
Microsoft founder Bill Gates said he intends to give away 99% of his vast fortune over the next 20 years.
In his blog post, Gates cited a 1889 essay by tycoon Andrew Carnegie called The Gospel of Wealth, which argues that wealthy people have a duty to return their fortunes to society.
Gates quoted Carnegie, who wrote: “The man who dies thus rich dies disgraced.”
His latest pledge represents an acceleration in charitable giving. Initially, he and his ex-wife Melinda had planned for the Gates Foundation to continue working for several decades after their deaths.
When asked about this shift, Gates told the BBC’s Newshour on Thursday that there will be other wealthy people in 20 years who can better tackle future challenges.
“It’s really about the urgency,” he said. “We can spend a lot more if we’re not trying to be perpetual, and I know that the spending will be in line with my values.”
Giving away 99% of his fortune could still leave Gates a billionaire – according to Bloomberg, the Microsoft founder is the fifth-richest person in the world.
In the blog post, he shared a timeline of his wealth that showed his current net worth at $108bn and a large hand-drawn arrow going down to close to zero in 2045.
Gates also said the foundation would draw from its endowment to give away $200bn.
Along with Paul Allen, Gates founded Microsoft in 1975, and the company became a dominant force in computer software and other tech industries. Mr Gates has gradually stepped back from the company this century, resigning as chief executive in 2000 and as chairman in 2014.
He said he has been inspired to give away money by investor Warren Buffett and other philanthropists, however critics of his foundation say Gates uses its charitable status to avoid tax and that it has undue influence over the global health system.
In his blog post, he outlined three main goals for his foundation: eliminating preventable diseases which kill mothers and children; eliminating infectious diseases including malaria and measles; and eliminating poverty for hundreds of millions of people.
Gates criticised the US, UK and France for cutting their foreign aid budgets.
“It’s unclear whether the world’s richest countries will continue to stand up for its poorest people,” he wrote. “But the one thing we can guarantee is that, in all of our work, the Gates Foundation will support efforts to help people and countries pull themselves out of poverty.”
He was more pointed in the interview with Newshour, where he was asked about comments he had made accusing tech billionaire Elon Musk of killing children through cuts to US aid made by Department of Government Efficiency, or Doge.
“These cuts will kill not just children, but millions of children,” Gates replied.
“You wouldn’t have expected the world’s richest person to do it.”
In his interview with the BBC’s Newshour, Gates raised the issue of cancelled grants to a hospital in Gaza Province, Mozambique, which Donald Trump erroneously claimed was funding condoms “for Hamas” in the Gaza Strip. Mr Musk later acknowledged the claim was wrong and said “we will make mistakes”, however the cost-cutting continued.
“I’m disappointed that [Musk] made abrupt cuts and characterised them in a way that was unfair, including saying that, money was being spent in Gaza when in fact, it was money to prevent mothers from infecting their babies with HIV,” Gates said.
“I mean, this is serious stuff,” he continued.
The BBC has contacted Mr Musk for comment.
The Gates Foundation is a donor to BBC Media Action, the BBC’s charitable arm which is separate from the Corporation’s news operations.
‘We will kill your wife and children’
The U.S. government is under pressure to stop the flow of funds to Iran. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called for a halt to aid to Iran, which has been accused of sending troops to fight in Syria. The U.K. government has called on Iran to stop sending aid to Syria, which it says is a threat to its sovereignty. The White House says it is working with Iran to find a solution to the crisis. The Obama administration has been criticized for not doing enough to stop Iran from sending more troops to the Middle East to fight the Islamic State, which is linked to al-Qaeda in Iraq and the Islamic Republic of Iran. The State Department has said it will work with the White House to ensure the safety of Americans in the region, and to prevent the spread of al-Shabaab, a terror group that has been linked to the Islamic state since 9/11.
According to the Washington Post, Israeli intelligence operatives, masquerading as omnipotent assassins, placed at least 20 calls to senior Iranian military figures.
Their demand was grotesque: Record a surrender video denouncing the Islamic Republic within 12 hours, or face annihilation alongside your families.
“We will kill you, your family, your children, everyone, with the dirt,” one Mossad agent hissed to an IRGC general, adding, “We’re closer to you than your own neck vein.”
Yet, not a single general complied. Not one fled. Not one betrayed their nation. This collective act of courage, amid Israel’s bombardment of civilian infrastructure, exposes the hollow core of the Zionist regime’s psychological warfare.
The failure of this campaign is not merely operational; it is a strategic and moral collapse that demands global attention.
A window into Israel’s desperation
The leaked audio, published by The Washington Post, reveals Israel’s playbook: exploit moments of vulnerability to fracture Iran’s government.
Calls were placed just two hours into the regime’s heinous act of aggression, coinciding with the targeted killings of Iran’s top commanders.
Israeli intelligence agents—presumably from Mossad or Aman and fluent in Persian—threatened IRGC generals to record ‘disassociation’ videos sent via Telegram.
“Do you want to be the next one on the list?” one operative taunted. The intent was transparent: manufacture public defections to demoralize Iran’s forces and ignite internal chaos.
Yet, Zero videos surfaced. Zero generals defected.
Instead, IRGC ranks tightened their formation, and the Iranian Armed Forces mobilized with renewed determination.
This mirrors Iran’s broader resilience: Despite Israel’s repeated war crimes—assassinations of senior officials and nuclear scientists, strikes on civilian infrastructure, police headquarters and Evin Prison, cyber-attacks, bombardment of cultural sites, calls for Tehran’s evacuation and uprisings—the Iranian people have only grown more united.
A surge of renewed nationalism and patriotism now sweeps the nation, as Iranians from all walks of life rally behind their flag and stand resolute in defense of their homeland.
Why Israel’s psychological war crashed against Iran’s fortitude
I. Loyalty beyond coercion
The IRGC’s structure, honed over decades, prioritizes values-based and patriotic loyalty over individual ambition.
Commanders are embedded within communities, their loyalty grounded in shared Revolutionary values and a deep commitment to preserving the Iranian government.
II. Honor and martyrdom
The Israeli regime’s demand for humiliation videos betrayed a fundamental misreading of Iranian honor.
For Iranian commanders, surrender equates to betraying martyrs like Major Generals Soleimani, Bagheri, Hajizadeh, and Salami.
The loss of fellow commanders doesn’t breed despair but a solemn, honorable guilt—“Why was it not my time?”
Far from breaking their will, each martyrdom steels their resolve. They channel grief into defiance, determined that no sacrifice will be forgotten or wasted.
This ethos permeates Iran’s response to the Israeli regime all throughout the 12 days of non-stop Israeli aggression.
III. The leak an admission of defeat
Israel’s leak of the operation to the Washington Post was an admission of failure. Covert espionage successes remain in the shadows; only faltering moves crave publicity. By releasing the intercepted calls so soon after the raid, Mossad tried to uphold an illusion of omnipotence.
Instead, it inadvertently underscored Iran’s unbroken chain of command and the fierce resolve of its new generation of commanders.
Therefore, Israel’s psychological warfare gambit was not just foiled—it was transformed into a testament to Iran’s spiritual and institutional resilience.
With their defiance, those Iranian generals proved Iran cannot be bullied, bought, or broken.
The world should heed this lesson.
Kilmar Abrego Garcia bragged he could kill his wife and get away with it: court docs
Alleged MS-13 member Kilmar Abrego Garcia once boasted he could kill his wife and “no one could do anything to him,” according to a request for a motion for a protective order she filed in 2020. The newly surfaced document preceded a 2021 protective order request she filed against her husband. In that document she alleged he had punched, scratched and grabbed her — with some of the alleged abuse so severe, she was left with bruises and bleeding. Despite the laundry list of disturbing allegations spanning both requests for protective orders, Jennifer Vasquez Sura has stood by her deported husband and advocated for his return to the US after being deported by the Trump administration in March. He was temporarily placed in the hellish Salvadorian megaprison CECOT before being moved to a lower-security facility earlier this month. His lawyer has argued that he is not associated with gang activity associated with El Salvador and that he has denied wrongdoing. He has been fired by AG Pam Bondi’s office, who admitted his deportation was due to an “administrative error”
“I also have a [recording] that [he] told my ex-mother-in-law that even if he kills me no one can do anything to him,” Jennifer Vasquez Sura, wrote in the document she filed with the District Court of Maryland for Prince George’s County on Aug. 3, 2020.
The newly surfaced document preceded a 2021 protective order request she filed against her husband. In that document she alleged he had punched, scratched and grabbed her — with some of the alleged abuse so severe, she was left with bruises and bleeding.
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7 Kilmar Abrego Garcia bragged that he could could kill his wife and “no one could do anything to him,” according to her request for a protective order against him. via REUTERS
7 Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s wife, Jennifer Vasquez Sura, has stood by her deported husband and advocated for his return to the US despite filing two protective orders against him for domestic violence in 2020 and 2021. AP
The 2020 request for a protective order details a fight the couple allegedly had, with Sura alleging that Abrego Garcia took her phone and demanded her car keys before flying into a rage when she refused. She said she went upstairs to cook breakfast for the kids but Abrego Garcia shut off the stove before locking the children in their bedroom, according to the document.
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Sura claimed she retrieved her phone from the car and called 911, but that Abrego Garcia had locked her out of the house when she tried to go back inside. He eventually let her into the house, and when officers arrived she said he smashed her phone in front of them, the protective order request says.
She wrote in the document that incidents like this had been commonplace, and that she had photos of bruises he had left on her body.
“Me and my kids are afraid now. He kicked me, pushed me, slapped me in the face and threatened me,” she alleged in the filing.
7 Abrego Garcia was temporarily placed in the hellish Salvadorian megaprison CECOT before being moved to a lower-security facility earlier this month. AP
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7 Abrego Garcia and Sura with their children. GoFundMe
An attorney representing Abrego Garcia’s family didn’t immediately respond to The Post’s request for comment.
The court filing goes on to enumerate several other allegations of violence and physical abuse. In November 2019, she wrote, Abrego Garcia “grabbed me by the hair in the car,” and he allegedly did so again the next month, dragging her “out of the car and leaving me in the street.”
Sura also write in the document about a January 2020 incident in which Abrego Garcia allegedly broke her son’s tablet computer and broke doors in the couple’s home. She wrote in March 2020 that he “pushed me against a wall” and broke a phone, a TV and damaged the walls.
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Despite the laundry list of disturbing allegations spanning both requests for protective orders, Sura has stood by Abrego Garcia and advocated for his return to the US after being deported by the Trump administration in March.
7 Sura at a press conference on her husband’s deportation in Washington, DC on April 9, 2025. REUTERS
Eight days after she filed the 2020 request for a protective order, Sura filed a document with the court seeking to rescind it, on the grounds her son’s birthday was coming up and Abrego Garcia had agreed to enter counseling.
Abrego Garcia was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) last month and deported to his native El Salvador along with 260 other suspected gang members — despite an immigration judge granting him protection from deportation. Garcia has denied wrongdoing, and his lawyer has argued that he is not associated with gang activity.
He was temporarily placed in the hellish Salvadorian megaprison CECOT before being moved to a lower-security facility earlier this month.
7 Sen. Chris Van Hollen meeting with Abrego Garcia in El Salvador on April 17, 2025. Press Office Senator Van Hollen, via AP
7 President Trump holding a photo of Abrego Garcia’s tattoos on his knuckles. Donald J. Trump/Truth Social
A Justice Department lawyer, Erez Reuveni, who has since been fired by AG Pam Bondi’s office, admitted his deportation was due to an “administrative error.”
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In spite of the admission, the Trump administration has vehemently stuck to its guns, saying Abrego Garcia, who entered the US illegally, had no right to be in the US.
Abrego Garcia was accused of being a gang member in both a Maryland police report and in 2018 court papers.
A Maryland federal judge has ordered the administration to “take all available steps to facilitate” Abrego Garcia’s return to the US, a ruling upheld by an appeals court and later the US Supreme Court in a unanimous decision.
But the Trump administration has contended that it “cannot guarantee success in sensitive international negotiations” over Abrego Garcia’s release from foreign custody.
Israel to Iranian generals: ‘Flee now or we’ll kill you’
Israeli operatives reportedly called IRGC leaders warning, “We’re closer to you than your neck vein” “I can advise you now, you have 12 hours to escape with your wife and child,” an Israeli intelligence operative is heard saying in a recorded phone call to a prominent Iranian general. At least 20 similar calls were made to Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) leaders during the first few hours of the war.
By World Israel News Staff
Israeli intelligence agents called generals and other notable Iranian figures on the first day of the Israel-Iran war, warning them to flee the country to avoid being assassinated.
According to audio tapes obtained by the Washington Post, the Israelis warned senior Iranian officials that they had two choices: leave Iran or risk death.
“I can advise you now, you have 12 hours to escape with your wife and child. Otherwise, you’re on our list right now,” an Israeli intelligence operative is heard saying in a recorded phone call to a prominent Iranian general.
“We’re closer to you than your own neck vein. Put this in your head. May God protect you,” the Israeli agent added.
At least 20 similar calls were made to Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) leaders during the first few hours of the war on June 13th, the Post reported.
In another call, an Israeli operative is heard telling an IRGC official that he’s “calling from a country that two hours ago sent [IRGC General Mohammed] Bagheri, [General Hossein] Salami, [Vice-Admiral Ali] Shamkhani, one by one, to hell.”
“Do you want to be one of them? Do you want to be the next one on the list? Do you also want to destroy your wife and child? No, right?” the agent told the IRGC official.
When asked for comment by the Post, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office did not confirm or deny the authenticity of the recordings.
During Operation Rising Lion, Israel has assassinated most of Iran’s top military leadership.
Many of those killed by Jerusalem include members of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s inner circle.
Analysts have noted that Khamenei is increasingly isolated, as his trusted advisors are continuously slain.
Dateline: Lori Vallow Daybell feels she will be exonerated of children’s murders
Lori Vallow Daybell expressed no remorse for the murder of her children. She said that she and her husband, Chad Daybell, will be exonerated because Jesus showed her the future and they were not incarcerated. Prosecutors said he labeled victims “dark” or “zombies” before they were killed. He was sentenced to death after his May conviction in an Idaho courtroom on charges of murder, conspiracy to commit first-degree murder and insurance fraud. Lori was convicted separately in 2023 of murder in the deaths of Tammy Daybell and Brandon Boudreaux, the estranged husband of Lori’s niece, and he admitted killing her estranged husband, Charles Vallow, on July 11, 2019. The couple met at a religious conference in Utah in 2018 — a meeting she described to “Dateline” as “amazing.’” “After I get exonerated, maybe I’ll go on ‘Dancing With the Stars’ and you can come,” she said.
During an often combative 90-minute interview at an Arizona jail, Lori, 51, told “Dateline” that she was falsely accused and convicted in the 2019 murders of Joshua “JJ” Vallow, 7; Tylee Ryan, 16; and her husband’s previous wife, Tammy Daybell, 49.
Lori said that she and her husband, Chad Daybell, who was also convicted in the three murders, will be exonerated because Jesus showed her the future and they were not incarcerated.
“After I get exonerated, maybe I’ll go on ‘Dancing With the Stars’ and you can come,” she said to NBC’s Keith Morrison.
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Chad, 56, self-published end times-themed novels and claimed to have had near-death experiences that allowed him to see the past and future and into the spirit world.
During his 2024 trial, prosecutors said he labeled victims “dark” or “zombies” before they were killed.
Chad was sentenced to death after his May conviction in an Idaho courtroom on charges of murder, conspiracy to commit first-degree murder and insurance fraud. Lori was convicted separately in 2023 of murder in the deaths of her children and conspiracy to commit murder in Tammy’s killing. She was given multiple life sentences without the possibility of parole.
Chad Daybell and Lori Vallow. NBC News / AP file
“Our theme was, ‘This is about money, sex and power,’” Madison County Prosecuting Attorney Rob Wood said of prosecutors’ approach in Daybells’ case. “There were all these tangential religious issues, but it really was about money and sex and trying to control people who were in the way that they called obstacles.”
“They got rid of them, and they profited from that,” Wood told “Dateline.”
Investigators said that they suspect Lori’s now-deceased brother, Alex Cox, likely killed Tylee, JJ and Tammy. They believe he tried to fatally shoot Brandon Boudreaux, the estranged husband of Lori’s niece, and he admitted killing Lori’s estranged husband, Charles Vallow, on July 11, 2019.
Joshua Vallow and Tylee Ryan. Fremont County Sheriff’s Office
Cox described the shooting as an act of self-defense, according to an interview he gave to police at the time. But to Doug Hart, a former FBI agent who investigated the killings, Cox was a “cold-blooded killer.”
“He was the one who was willing to do anything for his sister and ultimately anything for Chad,” he told “Dateline.”
In the months before his death, Charles filed for divorce from Lori and told authorities that he believed she might try to kill him. According to body camera video of the conversation he had with police in Gilbert, Arizona, he said that his wife had come to view herself as a “resurrected being” and a god.
“She said, ‘You’re not Charles,’” he told police. “‘I don’t know who you are or what you did with Charles … but I can murder you now.’”
Lori met her new husband, Chad, at a religious conference in Utah in 2018 — a meeting she described to “Dateline” as “amazing.”
“I recognized him spiritually,” Lori said. “And he recognized me spiritually, that we had known each other for eternities.”
Days before his killing, Charles discovered his wife was having an affair with Chad and sent an email to his wife, Tammy, saying he had “disturbing information” about their respective spouses, law enforcement documents in the case show.
Lori Vallow Daybell listens as the jury’s verdict is read at the Ada County Courthouse in Boise, Idaho, on May 12, 2023. Kyle Green / AP file
After her estranged husband’s fatal shooting, Lori contacted the company linked to his $1 million life insurance policy and learned she was no longer the beneficiary, according to a text message she sent to Chad.
In the message, which was introduced as evidence at Lori’s murder trial, she appeared to refer to Charles as “Ned” and said he’d probably changed the policy in March — “before we got rid of him.”
“It’s a spear through my heart,” she said, according to the text.
Cox, Lori’s brother, died in December 2019 of what the Maricopa County Office of the Medical Examiner said was a pulmonary embolism. In 2021, a grand jury indicted Lori on a charge of conspiracy to commit first-degree murder in connection with her estranged husband’s death.
That charge has since been upgraded to first-degree murder.
Lori was also charged with conspiring to kill Boudreaux, her niece’s estranged husband who also lived in the Phoenix area, and will be tried separately on that charge. She has pleaded not guilty in both cases.
In her interview with “Dateline,” Lori cited the upcoming trial and declined to discuss the text message or other details related to the upcoming cases.
“Did you watch your children die?” Morrison asked at one point.
“That’s a really sad question,” she responded, adding: “I was not there.”
Seven weeks after her estranged husband’s death, Lori moved with JJ and Tylee from Arizona to an apartment in Rexburg, Idaho, that was a short drive from Chad’s rural property.
The children vanished that September, and their remains were found nine months later on Chad’s property. JJ had been buried in a pet cemetery, prosecutors said at trial, while Tylee was dismembered and burned in a fire pit.
In her interview, Lori denied that her new husband identified the children as “dark,” saying that was “a narrative that you’ve been running.”
In an interview last year with her older son on “Scar Wars,” his podcast, Lori implied that her daughter might have killed her son accidentally and, filled with grief, then taken her own life.
“It must be nice and easy to blame my dead little sister for everything,” the older sibling, Colby Ryan, told “Dateline.” “That’s all lies.”
On Oct. 19, 2019 — weeks after the disappearance of JJ and Tylee — Chad and his son dialed 911 to report that they had found his then-wife, Tammy, dead at their home, a recording of the call shows.
Tammy’s death was initially attributed to natural causes, but investigators later exhumed her body and conducted an autopsy that found she died by asphyxiation. Chad and Lori married weeks after Tammy died and received a nearly half-million-dollar life insurance payout connected to the death, prosecutors said at Lori’s trial.
In her interview with “Dateline,” Lori asserted her innocence in Tammy’s death, saying they “proved” in court that she died of natural causes.
Lori is now set to stand trial in Charles’ killing. A judge ruled in December that she can act as her own attorney — a process she described to “Dateline” as a “great” but “difficult thing to do.”
Jury selection is scheduled to begin March 31. A trial date has not been set for Boudreaux’s case.