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Share price jump of 40% in 2017 made founder worth $91bn – for a short while leapfrogging the fortune of Microsoft founder Bill Gates The founder of Amazon, Jeff Bezos briefly overtook Microsoft’s Bill Gates to become the world’s richest person. Bezos leapfrogged Gates, who has...

By William Cooper Jeff Bezos announced last week that he is stepping down as Amazon's CEO. He built Amazon from scratch. He also built Blue Origin – a pathbreaking spacecraft company – on the side. In the process, Bezos became the richest person of all time. How did he do it? The key...

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PORTLAND, Ore. — Here on KGW, in honor of Black History Month, we're saluting local people who are breaking barriers and inspiring their community. We call them "Changemakers." We've featured leaders in the nonprofit world and in business. And today, we're focusing on "Changemakers" in politics. That certainly describes Nafisa Fai....

The agreement will support the provision of COVID-19 vaccines and related supplies for low- and lower-middle-income countries DP World and UNICEF have announced a wide-ranging partnership to support the global distribution of COVID-19 vaccines and related immunization supplies in low- and lower-middle-income countries. The new partnership - with...

The election of Ilhan Omar, the first Somali-American lawmaker, has been hailed as historic and great achievement for Somali and immigrant community in the United States. Minnesota voters elected her in a state where the uneasy assimilation of large numbers of Somali refugees became an...

By Elana Beiser and Elisabeth Witchel Deadly violence against the media eased in 2016 from recent record levels as the number of journalists singled out for murder declined. The number of journalists killed in the line of duty is on track to decline in 2016 from...

US president-elect, in his first interview since victory, says he plans to deport or jail undocumented foreigners. US president-elect Donald Trump said he planned to immediately deport or jail as many as three million undocumented immigrants, as he set out his priorities in the first...

BURNSVILLE, Minn. – At Gideon Pond Elementary, the morning greeting is delivered by the principal. “Make a positive choice,” Chris Bellmont counsels his students over the school public address system. The principal may deliver the message, but a 23-year-old teachers’ aide makes it stick. “He is the...

By Barbara Starr Washington (CNN)The US has reached the preliminary conclusion that Russian warplanes bombed an aid convoy and warehouse belonging to the Syrian Arab Red Crescent, two US officials told CNN. "All the evidence we have points to that conclusion," one of the officials said. However,...